Long reduced to stereotypes, Ranveer Singh's Jayeshbhai Jordaar is likely to change the Gujarati narrative in cinema
2 years, 10 months ago

Long reduced to stereotypes, Ranveer Singh's Jayeshbhai Jordaar is likely to change the Gujarati narrative in cinema

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The caricaturish portrayal of not just Gujarati culture, but any other culture is daft and uninspiring. Singh’s character name and accent are enough to tell you that this Jayeshbhai, is a quintessential Gujarati, something that you can make out the instant he and the other characters begin speaking. All that said, Jayeshbhai Jordaar from the look of it seems quite contrary to the usual Bollywood trope of using caricaturish traits as an element of mockery. I, however, hate to break it to you, but if we were to ever meet someday then there is minimal possibility of you figuring that I am a Gujarati unless I tell you so myself because despite all that Bollywood has taught you, not all of us talk in such a pronounced Gujarati accent, and neither do we fumble with our enunciations of the letter ‘s’. If Bollywood truly wishes to make an impact, that it knows it can, then it must do it by making people of all cultures, and backgrounds visible, not as mere motifs, but as humans, in many ways like what Hansal Mehta has done in Scam 1992, or what Mani Ratnam has done in Guru.

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