Strength is often narrowed down to physical strength, masculinity. Our inherent patriarchal mindset has conditioned us to think of adjectives like strong, powerful, and conniving in a very male context. The movie celebrates the strength of a woman in a man’s world without making her Mardaani or man-like or overly sexual. Jerry weaponises her womanhood in a way that is markedly different from the recent Imtiaz Ali series, She. The story traces how she uses her innocent looks and her cunningness to hoodwink not only the cops but also the entire drug syndicate. Jerry aka Jaya Kumari, in a mad-rush to arrange money for her momo-selling mother, Sharbati’s cancer treatment, takes an unconventional route and becomes a drug peddler. Good Luck Jerry, with a run-time of 123 minutes, is a part-clumsy, part-fun remake of this movie. It is also a world without consequences - the protagonist is never held accountable for her crimes that even involve murder. It is a woman’s world where the men are mostly either useless or easily outwitted. Nelson neither makes his heroine a lachrymose victim nor does he burden himself of his heroine to dole out any social message, smartly swerving the film away from the path of preachy women empowerment drama. He takes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stereotype and creates a smart-arse and shrewd drug peddler out of her, in a journey vaguely reminiscent of that of Breaking Bad’s Walter White.

In his directorial debut, Nelson, considered one of the most interesting young filmmakers of our times, swaps gender roles. And if the mantle falls on the unmarried daughter of the family, she of course becomes a prostitute who is eventually saved by the hero.īut the 2018 Tamil film Kolamaavu Kokila inverts the trope. In the case of a hero, this leads him to step into the murky world of crime. Such desperate times call for desperate measures.

A huge sum of money is required for the treatment. A poverty-stricken but respectable family struggling each day to make ends meet is faced with the sudden news of a parent’s illness. Rai and is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar, is a remake of a beaten story. Good Luck Jerry, which is produced by Aanand L. Cast: Janhvi Kapoor, Mita Vashisht, Deepak Dobriyal, Sushant Singh

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