“We’re not promising that this movie has twists and turns and concepts you’ve never heard before,” Nani said at the trailer launch event Tuck Jagdish. In retrospect, this seems like a premeditated statement against the expected criticism that the film might face for being too predictable or unoriginal. Nani could now come back and say, ‘Hey, I told you don’t expect anything new, right?’
As promised by Nani, Tuck Jagdish, at the risk of using a cliché, has old wine in a new bottle. Director Shiv Nirvana, who also wrote the film, hardly tries to make the film his own. He seems to have borrowed, rethought and borrowed the philosophy of all the hit melodramatic films he has seen without any value addition.
Tak Jagdish’s legend works like clockwork. You know what is going to happen in the climax of about 10 minutes in the film. Composer S. There is some comforting quality to Thaman’s score but it is hardly any consolation in a film like Tak Jagdish. Neither the visual style nor the performance of the actors deserve analysis. You can pretty much summarize them as functional.
Let’s talk about the idea of family that this film presents. It was to prove that our family is everything and it is worth going through any trouble to protect it. But, the principle itself defeats the sole purpose of the film.
Judging from the movie, the well being of a joint family entirely depends on the willingness of all its members to share the inheritance equally among themselves after the demise of the patriarchy. If one is a little too greedy, or a little stubborn, the idea of family collapses, as siblings turn against each other and clothes are torn.
In one scene, Nani’s Jagdish Naidu uses money to bring warring members of a family to the negotiating table and strikes a strategic peace agreement between the parties. He uses this trick on his family as well. While this sounds very prudent and portrays Jagdish as a realist, it is antithetical to a film whose sole purpose is to show us that family is more important than material wealth.
Bosu Babu (played by a weary looking Jagapathi Babu) hates his stepmother Anjanamma (Parvati T) because she is not his real mother. It’s not the same blood, you see. And family bonds are stronger when they have a blood relation, right?
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As expected, Bosu Babu finally has a change of heart. But, the change does not happen because he understands that the idea of family transcends the barriers of blood ties. This happens for a more traditional and selfish reason.
Jagdish uses threats and money to fix the family’s problems. The film does not speak about the profound, heartfelt and intangible value of family. All the characters in this film are ready to contribute to the idea of family, as long as it is profitable and convenient for them.
So what is the purpose of Tuck Jagdish?
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