Jayeshbhai Jordaar

About the film

Jayeshbhai Jordaar is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Divyang Thakkar. It is produced by Maneesh Sharma under Yash Raj Films. The film stars Ranveer Singh as the eponymous lead, alongside Shalini Pandey, Boman Irani, and Ratna Pathak Shah. It follows Jayesh Patel, the son of a Gujarati patriach, who believes in equal rights between males and females in society.

Principal photography commenced in Mumbai on 4 December 2019, which later shifted to Gujarat. Filming was concluded on 7 February 2020. The film was met with multiple postponements during 2020–2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released theatrically on 13 May 2022. Upon release, it received mixed reviews from critics and emerged as a box-office failure.

Plot

Jayesh Patel (lovingly called Jayeshbhai Jordaar by his daughter) is an educated man who lives with his father Pruthvishbhai (the village sarpanch), his mother Jashoda, his pregnant wife Mudra, and his modern daughter Siddhi in the fictional village of Pravingadh. Mudra and Jayesh have a very superficial relationship, seeming that they are only together to produce a male heir. Regardless, Jayesh is madly in love with his wife and hopes to one day have his first kiss with her.

The family hopes that Mudra's child will be a boy, so that he can continue the family lineage and become the next Gujarati sarpanch after Jayesh. In a regular check up with the doctor, Jayesh learns that his second child is also a girl.

In a flashback, it is revealed that Siddhi's birth was forgiven because she was the firstborn, but after that, Mudra was forced to abort 6 female children in her womb in the past 9 years, for not being able to conceive a male heir; if Mudra has to abort one more child, it is likely she will not be able to get pregnant again. However, Jayesh, who strongly believes in having equal rights for both men and women, decides not to inform his family that the child is a girl as he wants the baby to be born.

Production

The film was announced on 27 May 2019 under the title Jayeshbhai Jordaar, directed by Divyang Thakkar, produced by Yash Raj Films, starring Ranveer Singh as the titular Gujarati man. Principal photography began in Mumbai in December 2019. Boman Irani and Ratna Pathak Shah were cast as Singh's parents while Shalini Pandey was cast as the female lead. The Gujarat schedule commenced in January 2020. Filming was concluded on 7 February 2020.

Release

Jayeshbhai Jordaar was initially scheduled to release on 2 October 2020 coinciding with Gandhi Jayanti. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed to 27 August 2021, and then 25 February 2022. The film was released theatrically on 13 May 2022.

Reception

Jayeshbhai Jordaar earned ₹3.25 crore at the domestic box office on its opening day. On the second day, the film collected ₹4 crore. On the third day, the film collected ₹4.75 crore, taking its total domestic weekend collection to ₹12 crore.

As of 27 May 2022, the film grossed ₹18.56 crore in India and ₹7.75 crore overseas, for a worldwide gross collection of ₹26.31 crore.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 5 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.3/10.

Soundtrack

The film music is composed by Vishal–Shekhar with lyrics written by Kumaar, Jaideep Sahni, Vishal Dadlani and Vayu.

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