Jayeshbhai Jordaar follows the story of Jayesh who must fight his patriarchal family and save his wife who is pregnant with his unborn daughter. Now one side of the argument was that this movie is a few years too late considering that the male-female ratio has improved in the country. What my take is that this issue might still be relevant with my only complaint being that this issue has been tackled previously in other films too. From the trailer I thought this would be a boring affair and very preachy but thankfully and to my surprise, there aren’t any long monologues to underline the cause. The screenplay in the first half is light hearted as it focussing on a very affable protagonist who is trapped under the realms of his family but is just a soft person from the inside who loves his wife a lot. The turn of events leading upto the chase is hilarious and entertaining and I found myself thoroughly enjoying the drama. The entire first half is filled with events which are borderline silly but still thoroughly entertaining. The issue begins in the second half.

While the second half is consistently watchable as some of the streaks from the first half are retained, the tonal shift coupled with some muddled writing is what undo some of the hard work of the first hour. Instead of maintaining the same tempo, the screenplay gets slightly serious and a little too convoluted for my liking. And towards the end, there is a tonal shift with people flying in the air thereby falling to the commercial trope. This wasn’t needed as it definitely shifted its focus from the prime issue and instead made the drama a little cliched too. Probably a tighter second half could have worked wonders for the film. But overall, it was a sincere attempt at highlighting what I feel is still an important issue.