Movie Review: "Judgemental Hai Kya" (2019) - A Whodunnit

Source: Geo Urdu Movies

Introduction

Movie’s Name - Judgemental Hai Kya

Director’s Name - Prakash Kovelamudi

Release Date - 26th July 2019

Genre - Black Comedy

Language - Hindi

The Cast 

1. Kangana Ranaut as Bobby Batliwala Garewal/Vidya

2. Rajkummar Rao as Keshav Kumar/Shravan

3. Jimmy Shergill as Shridhar Awasthi

4. Amyra Dastur as Reema Kumar

5. Amrita Puri as Megha Kumar

6. Kanika Dhillon as Sita

7. Brijendra Kala as Officer Ram Pandey

8. Satish Kaushik as Officer Durjan Deshmukh

9. Lalit Behl as Uncle

10. Hussain Dalal as Varun Bahl

About the Director

The director of the movie, Prakash Rao Kovelamudi, has experience in directing many Telugu movies. He is counted among the successful directors of Tollywood. He first made his acting debut from the movie Neetho, which is a Telugu movie, then he did a few more movies in Telugu and related cinemas.

Later, in 2006 he made his directorial debut with Bommalata, a Telugu movie. The movie got critical success as it received a National award in the category of best Telugu film. Moreover, the movie was also written by him.

His work clearly reflects the level of perfection that he puts into his work to make it more enticing. Although, he is the son of K. Raghvendra Rao, an eminent personality in Tollywood, serving the industry.

About the Movie - Personal Verdict 

This movie can make you crazy. It is not a simple, straight, and lucid story that muster the whole movie but a robust theatrical experimental. The movie has touched many aspects of a person’s life in the social domain.

Actually, the entire movie is based on how a serious mental illness can transform a mental patient into a horribly crazy killer who is just killing people for fun and thrill. There is no happy ending to the movie, rather it ends with a blown away revelation.

All the actors in the movie, especially the lead actress, Kangana Ranaut, worked so diligently though her character was quite challenging and tough to play.

Her character, Bobby, is shown as a voiceover artist who is mentally not usual. The character brings all the characters in her real life, for those she gives her voice as a voiceover artist.   

Mental illness is one of the worst illnesses that either give new aspects of life or shatter the entire life. Along with the mental illness how many other absurd judgments people make about all mental patients are anyway more disturbing than their illness. And that’s what the movie has shown.

The direction, cinematography, and theatricality are going in sync complementing all the brilliant work done by every actor in the movie. The characters were nicely portrayed in all the possible senses. 

The movie in the first half shows the protagonist's background, who was a sufferer of rifts and misunderstanding amidst her parents. And that was one of the major reasons behind her mental sickness. Such an important but unhighlighted social problem in the Indian Society that is making it hollow, shown by the makers by making it more impactful for all of us to ponder. 

The other lead actor Rajkumar Rao played the character of Keshav in the first half and then Shravan in the second half. Actually, he came to live on lease in Bobby’s home with his wife who is also the cousin of Bobby. 

Suddenly, her cousin died in a bonfire. Bobby blamed her cousin’s husband as she was suspicious about him earlier. The case gets closed. 

In the second half, she again meets the same guy as the husband of her other cousin. The same was about to happen with her other cousin who is also pregnant. But she reaches at a very right time and saves her from the real mental patient who was pretending to be normal right from the beginning.

Moreover, the movie is produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, and Shailesh R Singh. It is not a big-budget movie. 

The music is given separately by Arjuna Harjai, Rachita Arora, and Tanishq Bagchi for different songs. The music in the movie is also supporting the situations and it absolutely fits in all the respective situations.  

The Bottom Line

The crux is that we should never get judgemental so early that it dampens the curiosity to know more about anyone or anything. The film has meticulously highlighted the life of a mental patient with all his/her sufferings, imaginations, and curiosities. 

The film has got many good reviews and ratings from critics as well as from audiences. It is a commendable experiment that altogether brings a wave of newness to Indian cinema. The film is absolutely watch-worthy. 

My ratings for the film - 4.5 on 5

You may watch this film on - Zee5

Written By - Vineet Kumar