Jee Karda (Season 1) Full Series Now Available On OTT
Series: Jee Karda
Released: Streaming On Amazon Prime
Cast: Tamannah Bhatia, Aashim Gulati, Suhail Nayyar, Anya Singh, Sayan Bannerjee, Simone Singh, Hussain Dalal, Samvedna Suwalka, Malhar Thakkar
Director: Arunima Sharma
Childhood besties with a troubled, but mostly happy childhood, grow into troubled and mostly unhappy adults.
Plot Summary
The entire plot of Jee Karda revolves around a prophecy recited to the younger version of the characters. In 2006, the 7 friends visit a fortune teller and he tells them or rather warns them of a dark, troubled future.
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Presently, the 7 friends have not only stayed in touch but are a group of beautiful and successful people. Lavanya is a successful architect who has just been promoted to a senior post at her firm. She is in a steady relationship with Rishab. Arjun is a wildly popular singer. Preet is a psychologist who is always down on her luck where love is concerned.
Melroy, an openly gay man is in an extremely toxic and even abusive relationship with a closeted man. Sheetal, married to a loving husband, is celebrating her third wedding anniversary, yet struggling to connect with him in his overcrowded and small flat with all his family members around them.
Shahid is a school teacher, who is sadly bullied by his students because of his humble background. Through the highs and lows, these 7 friends have stuck together and remained friends. During Sheetal's anniversary, Rishab, drunk on alcohol and dreaming of a perfect marriage proposed to a drunk Lavanya and she accepts. This sets the dominoes in motion when all 7 friends gather together, having to hash out disagreements, resentments, and long-buried secrets and longings. Will their friendship brave this storm? Is it over for this gang or will they come out stronger?
Cast Performances
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The cast of Jee Karda is full of talented actors and it shows. Tamannah with her experience is a firecracker of beauty, grace, and emotions. Aashim Gulati as the rapper is incredible. Anya Singh perfectly portrays the angst of a woman looking for love, and being supportive of her friends' achievements even when she is internally struggling.
Samvedana as Sheetal is so apt, showing the struggles of leading a life with her loving husband in a crowded home. Her dilemmas and indecisiveness are raw and emotional. Suhail Nayyar, Sayan Bannerjee, and Husain Dalal give memorable performances.
Overall Remarks
Jee Karda tries too hard to be relatable. It tries to be breezy, and angsty, playing on the young adult generation's indecisiveness, trials, and tribulations. Some characters are well written but some fail to impress us, going on to even annoy us or make us cringe. Some flashbacks detail how a strong bond was formed among these 7 friends.
The series is hilarious at places but also makes us cringe with second-hard embarrassment. The scene when a fan breaks into Arjun's room and climaxes after requesting him to rap one of his songs is part funny and part confusing. Preet who is supposedly a therapist, has one client, and that too is an over-entitled troubled brat.
Lavanya and Rishab have a complicated yet breezy relationship which borders on breakdown when their wedding preparation begins and Lavanya starts second-guessing all her decisions. which also happened to us a lot while watching this. Shahid's trope of being benevolent and resentful of his friends' success and wealth, even though forms the dramatic parts of the show, is half-cooked and unconvincing.
Overall Jee Karda is a more sane version of 4 More Shots, but in the world of serious dramas, it gets lost for its contrived relatability.
By SB