Shahid Kapoor’s Jersey film review and rating

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Nivedita P Nair

After Kabir Singh, Shahid Kapoor gets back to the big screen with Jersey, practically after a long time since his last film released. Furthermore, you don’t feel he has transformed the slightest bit, in some measure, taking everything into account. Nonetheless, his Arjun Talwar in Jersey is far more quiet and controlled than the boisterous, irate Kabir Singh. Playing a capable however bombed cricketer, a hovering father, and a spouse making a good attempt to save his marriage from self-destructing, he carries the film on his shoulders.

Movie Name: Jersey

Director: Gowtam Tinnanuri

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, Pankaj Kapur

A Hindi remake of the 2019 Telugu movie by a similar name, Jersey has been written and helmed by Gowtam Tinnanuri, who likewise helmed the first. Also, no award for speculating, the redo is a scene by scene duplicate of the first, similar as most other south Indian movies that get revamped in Bollywood.

Jersey follows the story of a particularly gifted Ranji player Arjun Talwar (Shahid Kapoor), who stops cricket at 26 years old and after 10 years, chooses to return to the game. All the while, Arjun needs to satisfy his child Kitu’s (Ronit Kamra) craving for a shirt and fantasy about seeing his dad play cricket. Along this excursion, Arjun goes through personal disturbance and conflicts with his wife Vidya Talwar (Mrunal Thakur) who bears all the financial side of the family.

Be that as it may, regardless of all weakness, nothing appears to prevent Arjun from following his fantasy about playing for the Indian national cricket team. He takes help from his coach Madhav Sharma (Pankaj Kapur), who also acts as a father figure to him. The ilm is high on emotions, Jersey fails to keep you hooked. The three-hour runtime of the film iritates to watch.Regardless, Arjun and Vidya’s sentiment and their battle to persuade her South Indian dad to wed her girl into a Punjabi family gets altogether too lengthy.

In the whole first half, we just get to hear two things again and again -son needing a tee shirt and the dad attempting to manage ₹500 to purchase that. It’s just the last part that story begins pushing ahead. Also, the film’s only big reveal that comes during the climax doesn’t really overwhelm.

More than sports, Jersey features the elements of connections – between a dad and a child, a husband and a wife, a player and a teacher, a bombed cricketer and his friends. The charming exhibitions while showing these bonds really take the cake.

Shahid doesn’t get carried away with his performance. His appearances of outrage, disappointment, vulnerability, satisfaction and triumph strike the right harmony. Mrunal as the functioning spouse and mother takes care of her role competently and doesn’t look constrained in the content. The film gives adequate degree to her to perform. Mrunal’s chemistry with Shahid isn’t standout yet works that they don’t look odd.

Ronit Kamra as Shahid and Mrunal’s onscreen child is a similar youngster from the first, and is as great in the Hindi redo, as well. His scenes with Shahid are simply awesome and you can associate with the bond this father-child pair share on screen. You will fall in love with Pankaj Kapur’s performance for sure. Indeed, even in the modest bunch scenes he has, he picks up little nuances and brings the much-needed comic relief, too.

The scenes on the cricket field have been flawlessly shot and cinematographer Anil Mehta catches the game in a great manner.

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Rating: 3.5 stars