What Is the Story About?
Sharmajee Ki Beti follows five women with Sharma surname and their daily lives, struggles growing up, parenting, love life – career conflicts, broken relationships and more.
It follows two teenage girls and their coming of age, hormonal changes, sexuality and relationship with parents alongside a career oriented cricketer who is put on a tight spot to compromise on her authenticity. The movie also chronicles around two married women who should find their own calling amidst changing dynamics of their family lives.
Performances?
Divya Dutta churns a moving performance in the film as the doting mother and neglected wife Kiran Sharma who is desperate to find her calling in a crowded Mumbai.
Sakshi Tanwar charms the screen each time she pops in as Jyoti and her equation with her family is heartwarming. But there’s very little arc to her character. Saiyami Kher tries to make Tanvi, a state level cricketer as earnest and ambitious as possible but her character arc is just so random. However, the girls who play Gurveen and Swati are chirpy and so much fun onscreen.
Analysis
Written and directed by Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Sharmajee Ki Beti is a feel good drama that circles around 5 women at different stages of life. From teenage, to youth to parenthood, the story moves across the challenges each of them faces leading to them finding themselves.
Sharmajee Ki Beti introduces Jyoti Sharma, Kiran Sharma, Tanvi Sharma, Swati Sharma and Gurveen Sharma and their daily lives. Jyoti is a working woman who hustles between work and family, Kiran is a house-wife caught in busy Mumbai where nobody has time for anyone. Tanvi is a cricketer who plays for Mumbai and aspires to get into the National team, while her boyfriend persistently nudges her to quit cricket, while teenagers Swati and Gurveen – daughters of Jyoti and Kiran, have their own little problems growing up.
The writing places all 5 of them in a busy city like Mumbai and lets them navigate their lives. While Jyoti and Swati have a strained mother-daughter relationship, Gurveen and Kiran shares a relationship that’s tender to eyes. As Tanvi struggles to strive for her dreams, she has a partner who doesn’t want her to soar heights.
Sharmajee Ki Beti’s women find their own calling by the end, but the calling doesn’t come organically. There’s immense superficiality in the way the film deals with its politics and women empowerment. While Jyoti’s story gets a cohesive and believable conclusion, Kiran and Tanvi gets short-handed treatment. They find themselves too, but the approach is very hurried.
Sharmajee Ki Beti is a Cliched feel good drama with some charismatic actors trying their best to ooze charm and positivity. Despite close to a 2 hour run-time, the characters don’t get due justice and their respective arcs conclude randomly. The screenplay is annoyingly disjointed while the writing is unbearably convenient.
The characters don’t even bond with each other which could’ve been easily one of the nicest things about the film, if presented well. Themes like sexuality, infidelity, work-life balance, ambition etc are not dealt with depth and understanding either. To conclude, Sharmaji Ki Beti is a film that has right intentions, but the fluffy feel-goodness it projects doesn’t have worthy enough stakes.
Music and Other Departments?
Sharmajee Ki Beti doesn’t flaunt music that elevates the nice-ness it tries to portray. Don Bhat’s score is pretty flat and does nothing to the film either. Rakesh Haridas and Daljeet Singh’s camera work is not soothing enough to romanticize and capture the essence of Mumbai. The writing is mostly superficial and direction is amateurish.
Highlights?
Casting & Performances
Feel-goodness
Drawbacks?
Disjointed screenplay
Superficial politics
Convenient writing
Music
Did I Enjoy It?
Not really
Will You Recommend It?
Yes, but with huge reservations
Sharmajee Ki Beti Review by Binged Bureau
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