STORY: A group of four friends, who work in different professions, share a close bond from childhood. Ananta, a fashion photographer lives in a rented house. Things go awry when all four are forced to live together at Ananta’s rented home. Their lives are disrupted when their landlord catches them red-handed with his wife and forces them to vacate.

REVIEW: Director Ravi Kinagi’s Jio Pagla can be summed up easily enough: A madcap caper about four couples that drags on and on. Drag being the operative word here. The two-and-a-half-hour-long movie could easily have been 40 minutes shorter and audiences would have appreciated it all the more for it. The movie deals with the lives of four childhood friends, two of whom are forced to cross-dress in order to secure lodging for themselves in a city where most landlords are looking for married tenants.
The movie starts off as most movies in this genre do — with a set piece song and all the eight main characters dancing to the thumping beats of the title track. We learn that Ananta (Jisshu), a fashion photographer by profession, lives in a rented room at a house owned by landlord Khogen Mal. However, his carefree life is interrupted as three of his close friends (Soham, Hiraan and Bonny) land up at his doorstep, looking for a place to crash. The four of them soon find themselves in hot water after an episode with Mal’s wife and are forced to vacate the premises.

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