Driver Jamuna Review
Aishwarya Rajesh has been constantly attempting to accelerate her acting career with women-centric scripts. In fact, she has a slew of releases ahead that includes ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ as well. With the visual promos of ‘Driver Jamuna’ ensuring that an edge-of-seat road-thriller is awaiting, we were brimmed up with great expectations.
Let us take a look into the film’s plot followed a crisp analysis of this film.
Following the death of her father, and to meet the financial commitments of family, Jamuna (Aishwarya Rajesh) takes up the profession of cab driver. Her every day life routine is same until ssassins get into her car. What’s the actual reason behind these miscreants getting into her car, and how Jamuna struggles to beat the odds out and escape from their clutches form the crux of this story.
A woman being a cab driver would be completely different from a man in same profession. From the minutest day-to-day issues to the major crisis, the female drivers would definitely go through lots of upheavals. The film has such a scope to exhibit them all, but it would have been nice if Kinslin had projected them, which would have elevated the value of this film. Well, if making a ‘Nick of Time’ Thriller was the intention of filmmaker, then, the narrative should have been more gripping that you’d will feel the torque within. There are few scenes that actually stands out to an appealing one, but it would have been good, if Kinslin had managed to create at least 3-4 more such moments. By doing so, the movie would have got more gripping and racier. The director conceptualized the entire play with ‘One Big Final Twist’, which he would have believed that will eclipse the shortcomings of the film. It does create a good impact, but the erstwhile moments to climax being just passable, there are situations where audiences might get distracted.
Aishwarya Rajesh has chosen this script owing to the reason that it offers her a unique role to perform. She has always done good justice with her performance, and this movie is no exception.
The others in the star-cast look tailor-made for their respective roles. If the director had sketched their characters with yet more intensity, their presence would have made a big difference.
The technical team deserves special mention, especially cinematographer Gokul Benoy. He has placed some risky shots that are worthy of appreciations. The musical score of Ghibran is just okay.
On the whole, Driver Jamuna is a different attempt, but with yet more gripping screenplay, it would have offered a wholesome racy thriller treat for the audiences.