When Emily Dickinson wrote “The center desires what it desires,” it hit residence for many people. Like Dickinson mentioned, human wishes and fixations are sometimes past rationale and reasoning. JioCinema’s newest unique, Jo Tera Hai Wo Mera Hai, is predicated on the identical idea. The movie tells the story of a person referred to as Mitesh (Amit Sial), who has had his coronary heart set on Utsav, a beautiful Bungalow in Mumbai, for years. Like a love-struck teenager, he retains scrolling via pictures of the villa on his cellphone, daydreams about it, and does not thoughts holding up visitors simply to get a second to admire the villa in its full glory.
The one impediment that stands in the best way of his childhood dream home is Govinda (Paresh Rawal), the perpetually cranky proprietor of Utsav, who pelts undesirable guests away and stays along with his family assist on the villa. He’s effectively conscious of the place’s magnetism and may’t stand the sight of brokers hovering over him, ready for him to comply with promote the place. A discover exterior his villa reads “Trespassers can be killed”. Govinda, all the time seen in a khadi kurta along with his cloudy hair, is a troublesome nut to crack.
Nonetheless, when Mitesh’s obsession takes over, he decides to make his means into Govinda’s tightly wound life. His thought is to observe the previous man round, strategically construct a relationship with him, win his belief, and in the end persuade or con (no matter fits higher in the meanwhile) him into gifting away the villa.
What follows subsequent is a collection of comical efforts at fulfilling this troublesome mission. Mitesh is able to go to any extent for the villa, even when meaning coping with harmful criminals or lacking his child’s birthday celebration for it. Being a person of vice, who lies via his enamel, gambles and cheats, this is not precisely a brief shift of morals for him.
Sial’s portrayal of Mitesh is spectacular and retains the temper of the movie gentle. From his expressions and physique language to his comedian timing, Sial has aced the function. He even manages to deliver a contact of innocence to Mitesh, who’s in any other case a poster boy of flaws.
Nonetheless, it was Paresh Rawal who stole the present for me. The veteran actor has as soon as once more delivered a stellar efficiency, including to his numerous portfolio of roles. His character’s crankiness, insecurities, and idiosyncrasies resonate via the display screen. In a scene, he will get suspicious of Mitesh’s intention and but chooses to disregard it due to the undivided consideration he’s getting after ages.
Sadly, nonetheless, the screenplay provides Rawal and Sial a really restricted room to shine. Whereas the actors made probably the most of what was given to them, the movie stops far wanting utilising them to their fullest potential. I’d have liked the movie to discover Govinda’s loneliness and contact upon his recollections along with his deceased son, who is consistently spoken of within the movie.
Jo Tera Hai Wo Mera Hai primarily tries to point out the omnipresence of greed throughout age, class, or gender. Even with its comical strategy, it succeeds in establishing how greed usually results in one digging their very own grave. Virtually all characters within the film harbour greed for one thing. For some it is cash and property, for others it’s lust and companionship.
Whereas Jo Tera Hai Woh Mera Hai makes an trustworthy try at displaying the depths of greed, it suffers from a very simplistic tone that glosses over the harsher realities of the world. Had it not sugarcoated the portrayal and tried to satirise as an alternative, the movie would not have felt like a preachy, bedtime story concerning the immorality of greed.
Raj Trivedi’s movie could possibly be a very good choose for if you end up searching for one thing light-hearted and simplistic. Its classes in morality would possibly swimsuit a youthful viewers, however if you’re searching for one thing with slightly extra emotional depth, and even simply all-out laughs, we propose you skip this one.
Ranking: 6/10