Juze (2018) [Movie Review]


Dir: Miransha Naik
Dur: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Drama
PG: Quite a few bad words. Violence and hints at sexual intimacy.
Rating: 2/10

Juze has been making quite a bit of news ever since its release. It has featured at a number of international film events and has even won quite a few awards. All this is good, except that I couldn’t see the greatness of the film. To put it simply, Juze for me was an amateur drama which left quite some food for thought.

Coming through the hands of a first-time director, the film is pretty good and quite watchable; enjoyable, that is a whole different story. The manner of telling the story may not appeal to most, I didn’t fancy it, but that ought not to take anything away from the issues touched upon in the film. The film touches on a series of issues connected with the life of a migrant in Goa. Even though these people have lived here for most or all of their lives they aren’t accepted and are exploited at every opportunity. I would want to hope the reality is better than what the film depicts. The acting is wholly unconvincing and devoid of emotion. The lack of a music score didn’t help the cause one bit.

It was good to see ordinary folk on the silver screen but that wasn’t really worth the price one had to pay to go see them. It’s not like they delivered great performances. In fact the overall performances were little below average. The story was well written and pretty well captured too. Camera work seemed like the best department but that was only till an action scene, where the camera found it difficult to keep up with what was happening. The script was nice and also the visualization of the plot. But sadly, the film has hardly anything else to boast of.

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