N-word Debate Aside, Janhvi Kapoor Evolves As An Actor With 'Good Luck Jerry' Despite A Weak Script

Good Luck Jerry featuring Jahnvi Kapoor, is an official remake of a Tamil dark comedy called Kolamaavu Kokila. The film may not leave a lasting impact on your mind, but it does leave you with a momentary satisfaction that does justice to the genre.

One of the most remarkable factors of the film is its cast. Jahnvi plays her role beautifully, and you feel she has been consistently playing such roles for a long time.

This and Gunjan Saxena can easily be called the best performances of Jahnvi to date, and, in some places, this movie carved out a better actor from her.

With this role, Jahnvi proves that she can be much more than just a pinnacle of hotness and ideal fashionista star, she can carry roles that do the major heavy lifting of the screenplay.

The film benefits more from the presence of an able star cast. The whole cast looks dedicated to causing a sense of mirth with their performance most of the time on screen, and it worked very well at certain levels for me.

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Jahnvi has grown a lot as an actor, she started with the role of a small town girl belonging to a rich family, and then she later transformed into an air pilot and then a possessed woman. Her range has evolved magnanimously, and she has grown with each role.

In this film particularly, Jahnvi has managed to ace her Bihari accent and play a role heavy on drama. Jerry works at a seedy massage parlor, she chances upon an illegal business when circumstances at her home are not good.

The script at places lacks a sense of direction and emotional continuity, but it is Jahnvi¡¯s performance that holds the script's momentum.

Jahnvi fits in this role because she knows how to tap onto various sides of her character according to the demands of the characterization. However, if compared to Nayanthara¡¯s performance in the original Tamil film, where she played the role of Kokila is likely to happen, but ideally, it should not.

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Nayanthara¡¯s version of the film has a dedicated plot with a proper sense of direction and purpose, but in Good Luck Jerry, the purpose seems to be deviated in the third act therefore it invites a sense of chaos in the execution of Jahnvi¡¯s version. Even after directionless moments, Jahnvi still manages to keep the overall film on track, showing her commendable worth as an actor.

The way she projected her vulnerability, as well as momentary cunningness, is worth praising because it¡¯s quite rare to see the new faces of Bollywood embrace these features so easily and so quickly.

Coming to the supporting cast, Mita Vashisht is amazing in her role and keeps the script floating with her humorous performance. Sushant Singh and Deepak Dobriyal are the two gems of the film that make the film more valuable and noteworthy with their presence.

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Good Luck Jerry on paper sounds like a fun dark comedy all set to win hearts, but in reality, it fails to execute this in a proper manner.

When you are done with the movie, you realize that it has some hilarious and dramatic moments, but in the end, they all go in vain because of a directionless third act. However, there are some very interesting points, like an all-woman household and how each one of them takes their fate into their own hands. The father had a major role in Kolamaavu Kokila. In Good Luck Jerry, the father is just a photograph on the wall. However, a middle-aged man often comes into Sharbati¡¯s home uninvited.

Overall, Good Luck Jerry is a tolerable one-time watch dark comedy and is uplifted by the amazing star cast that knows how to carry a script that has a head but not a tail. The performances alone are so on-point that you just stay hooked to the film even when you know the end may have an unsatisfactory feeling attached to it.

Janhvi Kapoor¡¯s progress as an actor is noteworthy and worth watching in this movie which has expanded her range as an actress immensely.

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