YZ - Marathi movie with Great message and Humor in patches

Movie YZ begins with an onscreen definition of its lead character “ Abb”/ Gajanan  and narrator takes you to the small-town Wai, Narrator explains entire backdrop of the main lead. Here, our journey with the movie starts. The movie is about the change as Gajanan (Main lead—Sagar Deshmukh) undergoes when he shifts to Pune for his job. A sharp contrast from Wai, the city of Pune only adds to his loneliness, as he wants to have a romantic companion. One of his students   Battis (Akshay Tanksale) who starts training him on how to become YZ, which is basically a program for changing his life and making him a more happening person.

The dialogues are witty, and humor in patches and they keeps the audience involved. However, a little more experimentation in humor could have helped the movie. While telling the story, there are two frames of references and one is of the younger generation and one is for the older generation. And, there another border that is being added over generations is confidence. When the most under the confident person in the world meets, the most confident one, a series of maddening events is bound to happen. This storyline can provide a great twist and tremendous humor. However, we are left with few easily imagined jokes.

On screenplay front, it happens around Wai  and Pune. Movie sets are up to the mark, however, songs could have been little different. Songs provide a feeling of being clichéd. Sometimes it offers a forced humor and superficial substance like in one scene when “Maushi reads her own notebook of childhood”.

The film has a great message however it suffers from its treatment. The first half director tries to be humor all the time and second half it shifts the gear and becomes thoughtful. This provides a distracted flow which becomes little challenging for the viewer. The primary challenge with films that offer message is developing characters that remain honest and yet grip the audience. Here, main lead remains remarkably honest, and a scriptwriter succeeds in establishing him and provides an excellent message to the audience.

The change in Abb’s life can be seen via his acting, and his expressions and his change have been captured well. Some of the scenes of the songs and few off-board dialogues could have been avoided. These dialogues and scenes make the film unoriginal in patches.

Sagar Deshmukh delivers a stunning performance in his first major role in a movie. The friendship he shares with Akshay Tanksale is one of the biggest positive of the movie. Another major plus is the occasional funny dialogues. The other ladies Parna Pethe and Mukta Barve don’t get a lot of screen time. However, they have done well. The director Sameer does excellent in developing the characters and building a story via some out of the box idea. 

However, the script does not provide him the more opportunities to retain grip over the audience the all the time.

Finally. I think, this is average humor movie with a great message. Kids may not enjoy a movie that much. However, it can be your one-time watch. It's a good-hearted, handsomely executed film that does provide the humor in patches.

·         StarCast: Sagar Deshmukh,  Akshay Tanksale, Parna Pethe, Sai Tamhankar, Mukta Barve

·         Writer: Kshitij Patwardhan

·         Music: Rishikesh, Saurabh & Jasraj