Justice Chaudhury

In sum I'd call this one of the better of the southern style 80's Hindi movies. It is able to entertain you and possibly even make you cry, with great music, colorful visuals and a twisted storyline. Ramu is a young man who races cars and works at a garage, and is the bastard son of a woman who is in jail. Old man Chaudhury is a respectable Lawyer who is promoted to judge over his rival, Kaileshnath, who is the lawyer of the villain Shanker Sing, a man sentenced to hang for murder and diamond smuggling. Kaileshnath has a spoiled daughter named Rekha played by Sri Devi. While out driving one day, Rekha encounters Ramu and a strange web is woven between them all. There are even more characters and situations, including the dilemma of Laxmi, the speech impaired daughter of Chaudhury, but I'll let the movie do that job.... the tale of Justice Chaudhury is a soap-ish drama with unexpected twists and reconciliations between characters for which no written summary could do "justice".

At 42 years of age the actor Jeetendra somehow manages to pass for the 20 something Ramu, but is exquisitely dashing as the silver-haired Chaudhury, who is also depicted during a flashback sequence in a younger form. Jeetendra gives a smooth performance across the roles and his acting style is appropriate for this story. We also get to see Arun Govil as Chaudhury's son Ramesh who's only purpose seems to be eye candy for the ladies, with all of his tromping around in tight police uniforms. Sri Devi's role as Rekha is typical for her 80's period and her voice is dubbed over for some reason, even though the dub is not much different than her actual voice. Asrani is in here for comedic relief as Anthony, Ramu's jumpy Catholic buddy, but his initially annoying performance mellows into the background as the film progresses. Khader Khan is excellent as Kaileshnath and he managed to swipe some laughs from me.

There are a few things that I felt are notably strange but do not diminish the validity of the film. One would be the large, modern style house in which the family of Chaudhury lives that features rows of Panton-era furniture with geometric upholstery in vivid yellows, purples, blues, and greens as well as giant paintings of cranes and other things on the walls. The second being how Jai Sing, the main villain played by Shakti Kapoor, is always surrounded by dolls and wind up toys. He even pets a teddy bear while stating his nefarious schemes! The third is how stylized the fight scenes are, especially the one in a warehouse between Ramu and some goons that features seemingly impossible flips and a disturbing incorporation of toys.

Dance numbers include the aerobic "Mama mia, pom pom" that is not especially notable in its choreography, setting, or costume but has a catchy disco tune by Bappi Lahri that will be singing in your head for days. A park becomes the scene for the very amusing "come with me" in which Ramu romances Rekha across benches, lawns and pedal boats to a reggae beat while foiling and baffling Kaileshnath. A slip on some eggs during a visit to Ramu's mother initiates a sensual shower encounter between Ramu and Rekha that breaks into a psychedelic fantasy in which they are fairies in an over-sized candy-colored forest of mushrooms, frolicking in pools of rainwater and being pelted with bucketfuls of fake pearls as they sing "what has happened when you touched me? it will take the rain and clouds to put out this fire". At last, a romantic flashback of the young Chaudhury and a love played by Hema Malini takes place in a flower-filled greenhouse as they declare "what is the most important thing in my life? Waiting for you..." while various gilded frames and garlands envelop their faces.

Okay, so JC is definitely not a masterpiece, but then not every moviehas to be now! JC is one of the better movies that Jeetendras and Sreidevi made during their hit pairing during the 80s. The only other movie that is actually better was MAQSAD and later on Sri was to expensive for Jeetendra films (after Nagina, Chandni and Chaalbaaz) and she did some movies with her short lived marriage with Mithun. The usual Padmalaya gang was in for this movie : that is Jeetu, Sri, Kadar, Shakti, Aruna Irani, Bappi Lahiri etc. Hema Malini and Moushumi and Raj Kiran are okay as the new entrants. The best in the movie are (in order) Jeetendra Sridevi Kadar Khan Hema Malini Moushumi

It's one of the best performance of Jeetendra ever as a double role. He plays the role Ramu and Justice Choudary who is very honest and is living with priniciples. He lives with his family and one day encounters with some serious problems caused by Raj Kiran and Shakti Kapoor. Ramu is the illagle child of Choudary and Radha and he has same face what you a dule role. Kader Khan plays the role of Sridevi's father and a lawyer that is very unloyal. Sri has a small role but it is eariler years in Hindi films but she is looking great and she is good dance we all know. The voice dubbed on her is not hers but this film is worth watching because Jeetendra and its a great comedy, action, family, drama. Its also one of tamil film remake from Padmalya films but still its worth watching. I would give it a 8 out of 10. One more guess what Arun Govl is playing the son of Jeetu and Himmatwala he played like friend.

It is another super hit Movie Jeetundra & Padmalaya Studious Jeetendra in a double role gave his best powerful performance as usual, Jeetu as old Justice Chaudhury another young actor played honest self respect judge very well, In Bollywood only few actors are very perfect & popular for old man roles I gave the rating as No.1 Sanjeec Kumar 2. Jeetendra, 3 Danny & 4 Amitabh. The entire movie holds on Jeetendra's shoulder, Kader Khan another role as comedian well done, Direction is done according to script is too good, Hema & Mausami role are short but they justice their role, Shakti Kapoor is not attractive, Arun Govil has very short role, after all the movie worth watching for Jeetendra acting skills, Songs are very popular in that period, Sri Devi voice dubbed & her dance with Jeetu is too good, Can be watchable for Jeetu power packed performance.