Jia Aur Jia (2017)
JIA AUR JIA is the story of two girls with the same name but contrasting personalities. Jia Venkatraman (Richa Chadha) is a banker who’s demure, serious and running from a troubled past. Jia Garewal (Kalki Koechlin) on the other hand is carefree and free-spirited. They sign up for a trip to Sweden and get each other as tour partners. Jia Venkatraman ran a successful company but she was ousted from there thanks to the devious plans of Arvind Jaisingh (Sudhanshu Pandey) with whom she was romantically involved. Jia Venkatraman turns suicidal and her purpose of the Sweden trip is to end her life. Unknown to Jia Venkatraman, Jia Garewal might seem happy go lucky but even she is hiding a painful truth. What is that truth and how it changes the life of Jia Venkatraman forms the rest of the film..
Rating: 1.5/5
Add to that heaps of blah humour, contrived sentiment and dummy imagination.
This journey ends long before it even starts..
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Rating: 3/5
See the film for the Kalki-Richa jugal-bonding and yes, for the way the film uses the evergreen Shankar-Jaikishan/Lata Mangeshkar/Mohd Rafi song "Jiya oh jiya kuch bol do" to reiterate life's most valuable lessons..
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Rating: 1/5
Kalki Koechlin fares marginally better, but with the screenplay providing no support at all she, too, is left clutching at straws.
Watch Jia Aur Jia only if a road that goes nowhere appeals to you.
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Rating: 1/5
A random relationship, involving pretty pink gowns and bewildered priests and marriage vows, crops up. There’s also a thread about death and dying, which leads to teary interludes, but we’ve long stopped trying to make sense of it all..
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Indianexpress.com
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Rating: 0.5/5
Kalki is perhaps the only good thing about the film. Unfortunately, the script and dialogues do not leave much scope for her. There are precisely five minutes in the film where I could actually feel the emotions onscreen. Other than that, even Kalki’s a.
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Hindustantimes.com
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Rating: 1.5/5
You can give it watch if you really want to watch any film, but my personal suggestion will be to save some bucks as the next two months are filled with pretty exciting films..
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Rating: 1.5/5
Jia Aur Jia is nothing but a half-hearted attempt when it comes to life-lessons. Giving this trip a miss won't make a difference!.
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Filmibeat.com
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Rating: 1.5/5
On the whole, JIA AUR JIA is a poor show all the way laced with a very bad script and poor direction. At the box office, it will be a failure..
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Bollywoodhungama.com
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Rating: 1.5/5
Nonetheless, it's not about the actors, this one lacks humour, heart and a story. Watch Kangana and Lisa Haydon in Queen instead.
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Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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