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Judgementall Hai Kya & Arjun Patiala 4th Day Collection: Monday Box Office ReportBy

BOC India Team -

July 30, 2019

[Total: 2 Average: 3.5/5]

After passing the opening weekend at a good note, Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao starrer Judgementall Hai Kya has entered on weekdays with a steady pace. While the adjacent offering Diljit Dosanjh and Kriti Sanon’s Arjun Patiala has crashed down on Monday after a dull weekend.

Produced by Balaji Motion Pictures & Karma Media And Entertainment, the Hindi dark comedy has entertained many in theatres and gathered a positive word of mouth. The film was started at a decent note but eventually registered a good weekend with 22.04 crores that included 5.40 crores on Friday, 8.02 crores on Saturday & 8.62 crores on Sunday.

On Monday, Judgementall Hai Kya has recorded a normal drop vis-a-vis Friday and minted the amount of 3.60 crores. With this, its 4 days total collection has become 25.64 crores nett at the domestic box office. As per the current trend, it is expected to rake around 34 crores by the end of this week.

In parallel, Maddock Films & T-Series Films’ production Arjun Patiala has got failed to convince critics as well as the audience and struggling at the box office. In the weekend, it had raked the business of only 5.40 crores with 1.50 crore on Friday, 1.80 crores on Saturday & 2.10 crores on Sunday.

Directed by Rohit Jugraj, the comedy-drama has now entered on weekdays and recorded a significant drop in footfalls. On Monday, it has witnessed a decline of 43.33% than Friday and bagged the amount of 0.85 crore. After 4 days, the total collection of the film has become 6.25 crores nett.

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Judgementall Hai Kya movie review: Kangana hits all the notes perfectly

Judgementall Hai Kya movie review: This is the kind of movie which will sharply divide audiences. And that’s as it should be. Once I began seeing it as the murmurings of a different mind, I bought it as a caper, as burlesque, where nothing is as it is. I had problems with some of it, but I really liked the rest of it.

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Written by Shubhra Gupta | New Delhi | Updated: July 26, 2019 5:37:06 pm

Judgementall Hai Kya movie review: Kangana Ranaut delivers a terrific, hang-everything-out-to-dry performance.

Judgementall Hai Kya movie cast: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Amyra Dastur, Husnain Dalal, Amrita Puri, Jimmy Sheirgill, Satish Kaushik, Brijendra Kala

Judgementall Hai Kya movie director: Prakash Kovelamudi

Judgementall Hai Kya movie rating: Three stars

The trickiest thing about a movie showcasing an unhinged character is that it can appear half-cocked if it slips even an inch from its graph. And Judgementall Hai Kya has one of the kookiest, weirdest, flakiest female characters ever to grace Hindi films.

I am happy to report that in this film, shifts do happen, but it is of registers, not tones, which in itself is quite an achievement. And even though there are occasional slippages and some clumsiness on display, Judgementall Hai Kya stays unwavering in its intention, and that is to get us to look at the world through a character who does not see it like the rest of us, served up in a crowd-pleasing but strikingly original medley – a dark serio-comic thriller with touches of horror bound by stylized edges.

Kangana Ranaut’s Bobby, burdened with unresolved childhood trauma, has been slapped with a label of ‘acute psychosis’. We are told helpfully that she has a ‘maansik beemari’ and that ‘uske bade saare complex hain’. The word ‘mad’ pops up later, when we are fully primed for it. A brief stint at a mental health facility is summarily dealt with, and in a different sort of movie, we would critique it as being too facetious. But the plot quickly plops Bobby close to a cuddly much-in-love husband and wife pair, and the film switches gears. Keshav (Rao) and Rima (Dastur) instantly turn into objects of fascination for Bobby, leading to a horrible fatal accident which unsettles the film, and us: who is guilty?

I started warming up to Bobby and the film only after a while. To begin with, I found things a bit choppy, and sloppy, with Bobby’s sex-deprived boyfriend (a hilarious Dalal) making broad jokes about not getting any, and Bobby herself being annoyingly all over the place. At one point Bobby laughs uproariously at her own joke, which no else finds funny, and your heart sinks: is it going to be that film in which ‘crazy’ people are going to be derided/demonized/poked fun at? A series of gags with nothing to tether them?

But once the film settles down, and takes aim, it doesn’t let go. The scene shifts from Mumbai to London, and a twist in the tale gets Ranaut and Rao in the company of a very pregnant young woman (Puri) and a theatre director (Shergill ) who is busy overseeing a contemporary playing of the Ramayana, in which the idea of Ram, Sita and Raavan are happily subverted: is Sita an ‘abla naari’ who needs rescuing all the time?

This is when the film goes off the rails, and I mean that in the best way: Rao plays his part with brio, and Ranaut hits all the notes perfectly: is she ‘normal’ under all the ‘craziness’? Are ‘mad’ people capable of empathy and vulnerability? I am not getting into the shoes of those of who will find mention of such phrases as ‘paglait’, ‘paagal’ problematic: yes they are, but equally, they need to be uttered so that their sting can be blunted, though the film needn’t have conflated ‘mad’ with ‘dangerous’: that’s the kind of twinning we can do without.

Other, more affectionate, less judgemental descriptors as ‘baawli’, ‘atrangi’ also come up, and you realize how many ways there are to classify those who do not fit into the norm. And for me, this film does just that: by not boxing in its ‘mental’ character, played with ferocious, single-minded acuity by Ranaut, who after a couple of initial fumbles, draws a bead on Bobby and rides her unerringly. Bobby may live with 17 or 18 characters in her head (so we are told more than once), she may be obsessed with men who have a thing for fire and arson, but she is not a victim. She is a survivor.

It is a terrific, hang-everything-out-to-dry performance, and you can’t help but make connections between what’s happening on screen and Ranaut’s off-screen seemingly off-kilter joustings which routinely make so much news of the wrong kind.

There’s a great deal of craft going on alongside in the film. Some dips aside, this is grown-up writing, making no allowance for dummies (when it starts to explain things too much, in fact, it detracts from the dreamy, trance-like, near nightmarish atmosphere in some parts). The psychedelic, surreal touches are marvelous, with some characters flitting in and out of Bobby’s head: are they real or imaginary? A sequence in which Bobby and gang go wandering in the grungier parts of London town is suffused with inspired lunacy. We never relax, and are always on edge, just as the film intends for us to be.

It’s been a long time since I have seen something so determinedly experimental, so inventive, despite its flaws, to come out of Bollywood: even the films-within-a-film references (from the classic Hindi horror film Mahal to the more recent Birdman) are artfully done. Perhaps getting the producers to rename the film Judgementall Hai Kya (the original name was the much more bold and potentially hurtful Mental Hai Kya) may have been a good thing: a we-are-different-but-we-are-fine post-script seems to have been forced in, but it manages not to be offensively, patronisingly chirpy.

This is the kind of movie which will sharply divide audiences. And that’s as it should be. Once I began seeing it as the murmurings of a different mind, I bought it as a caper, as burlesque, where nothing is as it is. I had problems with some of it, but I really liked the rest of it.

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Subhash K Jha talks about Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao starrer JudgeMental Hai Kya

BySubhash K. Jha

Created: Jul 27, 2019 - 3:34 pm IST

This is probably the darkest comedy you will see this year. Or any other year. Also, the most fiercely original and unflinching. JudgeMental Hai Kya (whatever that means) is not for the squeamish or the tender-hearted. It is the opposite of a rom-com. Perhaps a romp-com, as it takes us one one wild ride through the minds of two of the craziest protagonists you will meet on this side of Bonnie and Clyde.

#Judgemental Hai Kya

Subhash K Jha talks about Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao starrer JudgeMental Hai Kya

Bobby, that’s Kangana Ranaut playing what looks like a defiantly constructed fictional image of the intrepid avatar she assumes in real life, a troubled soul, if ever there was one. The feel-anything-but-good film begins with Bobby’s parents plunging to their death during Holi. You get the feeling the writer and the director were sold on the visual of two figures plunging to the ground in a swirl of dizzying colours. To be sure, the visual palate is often showy, exhibitionistic and intended to create a splash of embarrassingly gaudy colours with feelings to match. That goes for Kangana Ranaut’s dressing sense and hairstyle also.

Everything here is meant to shock. Perhaps, in the way the leading lady does in real life. Indeed, much of the heroine’s erratic behaviour could be conveniently attributed to the actress’ real-life conduct. And that’s the worst service you can do to Kanika Dhillon’s darkly provocative screenplay where anything can happen, because, like I said, we are meant to undertake a journey with two of the most psychologically disturbed criminal minds to have ever posed as ‘Hero’ and ‘Heroine’ in Hindi cinema.

While giving away the plot may invite the wrath of Kangana Ranaut’s alert and aggressive admirers, not giving away the plot is not one of Ranaut’s creepy character Bobby’s USPs. Bobby is crazy and not shy of showing it. In the way she stalks her tenants Keshav (Rajkummar Rao) and his wife (the pretty Amyra Dastur), Kangana displays a rare resoluteness and fearlessness in her screen presence. She doesn’t care how she looks, and who looks, as long as she is doing what comes naturally to her. Playing what looks like a schizophrenic character, this is the trickiest role of Kangana’s career and she is up to the challenge.

Rajkummar Rao playing her raven Ravanesque multiple-disordered personality will shock you with his artillery of raw and rippling histrionics. Like much that goes in this nippy snappy work of surrealistic art, Rao’s character is unpredictable to the end. The Ramayan references that are plucked out of their original habitat taken to London to nourish and nurture the narrative’s noire aspirations, didn’t really work for me. But then, I saw the mythological references as part of the madness that inflicts the film from first frame to last. Then, everything works, because nothing in this film is meant to be normal.

JudgemeMental Hai Kya dares you to get judgmental about its heroine. As Kangana manoeuvres through the maddest role of her career, she is joined by some fine actors. Specially enjoyable are Hussain Dalaal as her slavish boyfriend who wants sex but gets, in Kapil Sharma’s works babajee ka thullu, and the ever-reliable Jimmy Sheirgill who for reasons unknown, gets attracted to the most dangerous woman on the planet.

Kangana Ranaut’s Bobby or Rajkummar Rao’s Keshav are not people you would like to meet socially. But this film telling their crazy quirky combined karmic teerth has teeth and claws.

You’ve never seen anything like this before.

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