Jee Karda Review: Jee Karda is a comedy-drama series produced by Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films and directed by Arunima Sharma; the series is co-written by Hussain Dalal and Abbas Dalal. The series features Tamannaah Bhatia, Aashim Gulati, Suhail Nayyar, Anya Singh, Hussain Dalal, Sayan Banerjee, and Samvedna Suwalka in lead roles and has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 30-40 minutes.
Jee Karda Plot
Five friends, all from different backgrounds and upbringings, form a special and unbreakable bond from childhood till adulthood. However, all these bonds are constantly tested when two of the friends, who are also in a relationship, get married and with weddings come unlimited drama and unfamiliar situations that threaten to break their bonds. Will everyone be able to move past their differences and find each other even in the worst of times? Or will these untoward situations end up poisoning the friendship that these adults have nurtured from their childhood?
Jee Karda Review
There have been multiple renditions of movies and TV shows that revolve around the beautiful bonds of friendship and how, through the best and the worst, your friends promise to be there for you. Jee Karda isn’t a unique addition to this sphere. However, there’s something really charming about the show that leaves you feeling a whole host of feelings. This is probably because the show feels oddly realistic, and the friendships, as well as the individual characters, feel relatable and unique.
Jee Karda gives us seven friends, who, unlike other movies, don’t all come from rich families or make it big in their adulthood. Some do, while others struggle as they try to find their ways in life. Breaking your FD to go on the honeymoon is probably a very relatable scenario for many of us, although, personally, not a recommended route to take at all! Either way, the comedy-drama series gives us several instances like this that make us sympathise or have fun with, or get angry at, the cast of characters who are all struggling to find a balance in their lives.
The series also doesn’t shy away from showing their upbringings – while some are outwardly horrible, others suffer in situations more subtly. All these things, however, have a profound impact on who these people are in the present and drive the way they make decisions as they realistically should. Money issues, boundary problems and standing up for oneself are some of the things that are subtly handled here, as well as the endless stream of bad decisions that might sometimes make you scream at the screen!
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To be honest, Jee Karda makes you see yourself in some of the characters. You scream at them because maybe somewhere in the past, you, too, have made a similarly bad decision that has profoundly impacted your life. As we jump between past and present, the series fleshes out the characters, which, in turn, makes us understand who these people are. No one is black or white here – everyone is a shade of grey, as people are in real life. Their struggles feel real because the characters themselves feel real – everyone is trying to find some sort of semblance of balance that might just make their lives smooth.
All the ups and downs of these characters, by the way, aren’t stuff that would make you raise an eyebrow. Everyone’s backstories gel well with the issues that they have, and once you get to know them, their struggles become believable as something that they might just go through. Some of the characters will make you want to find them a therapist, while others will make you wish you could give them a hug. They are written with sensitivity and understanding, and no one feels like a “drama queen” or “annoying”.
Apart from the drama-filled storyline, the series also has a few fun songs, thanks to one of the characters being a rock star. These songs, although a bit corny, reflect what we hear everywhere in the present and are otherwise catchy. The makeup and costume department has done an excellent job of making the characters look like they are while also making them look stunning. All the women have some great clothes that are somewhat relatable but also eye-catching and don’t make you wonder who would wear this in real life.
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All the actors in Jee Karda have done a commendable job with their characters. From Tamannaah Bhatia’s Lavanya struggling with her unstable life and guilt to Hussain Dalal’s Sahihd bubbling with pent-up frustration and anger – it’s an excellent showcase of emotions. Of course, get ready to hate some people more than others and be a silent spectator to the unfair treatment, even among close friends!
In the end, Jee Karda ends on a cliffhanger, a little trick that almost every show has been using these days. You would expect thrillers to leave us hanging, making us wonder what happens after this, but no – even dramas about life and friendships deem it necessary to make us wait and wonder what happens in the lives of our protagonists. I mean, sure. Life is thrilling, and our decisions have the capacity to make or break our lives. But still, can one show not end without making us wait for months to give us what we want finally?
Another thing that I thought felt a bit odd was the fact that all these late-20s characters really make the worst decisions. Although they have some delicious drama and equally dramatic and relatable backstories, there’s something about watching people constantly disappoint you with bad decisions that really make you mad. By the seventh episode, I was a little concerned with how pathological everyone is with their own issues that simply don’t get solved year after year. For example, what kind of person, after losing all of their savings, liquidates their FD to go on a honeymoon – I don’t get it.
The show is littered with such examples, which I won’t get into here since it’ll be considered spoilers. However, in spite of me having fun watching the drama unfold, it did leave me a bit exhausted not seeing change or growth in the characters – they are just destructive people who, I think, feel like the world owes them something!
Jee Karda Review: Final Thoughts
Jee Karda is quite a delicious watch about friendships and takes a deeper look into different kinds of relationships – be it friendships, romantic relationships or the relationship we have with our parents. It’s quite relatable and even gets somewhat nail-biting in many places. However, one of its biggest flaws, personally, is the fact that it ends on a damn cliffhanger, something that shows really need to stop doing with any genre of media under the sun.
Jee Karda is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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