JABARIYA JODI: The title means “a couple married by force”. The movie surely needs a “Jabariya” audience. Set in Patna, tacky sets, garish costumes, inane script and a confusing plot will set the viewers off. Chocolate boy Siddharth Malhotra oozes charm and killer good looks but his acting and dialogue delivery leave much to be desired. Great body, great face but look Ma, no brains! or what would possibly explain his disastrous choice of movies, delivering one dud after another. Parineeti Chopra lacks on-screen chemistry with Sid Malhotra. She is always decked up in designr clothes mostly crop tops and for some doggon reason dons a green eyeliner always. The lead pair is too urban to be playing rustic Biharis. The backdrop of the movie is groom kidnapping in Bihar by the bride’s family who cannot pay dowry and pay a smaller fee to the local goons. The story takes a convoluted turn as the main protagonists take turn in kidnapping one another.Siddhartha Malhotra is shown smoking pot, ciggarettes, guzzling beer but still he does not come alive on screen as the menacing goon. There are a few weird product placements like Gas-o-fast, Manyavar etc that are “jabariya”. Music is average and the songs do not gel into the narrative. Aparshakti Khurana gives a nondescript performance and pales in to the background. This is dreamboat Siddharth Malhotra’s big screen movie outing after one and a half years-if you crave to watch him groove, talk with his chacteristic arched eyebrows, romance, fight, smile, cry then go for this movie. Otherwise give it a miss.
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