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Jawaani Jaaneman(2020)- Review Jawaani Jaaneman is comedy-drama film revolving around Jaswinder Singh (Saif Ali Khan) or better known as Jazz. Jazz employs a free going and carefree attitude, and works with his brother (Kumud Mishra) as a property broker in and around London. Jazz is not too big on serious relationships and avoids commitments whenever he can. At night he parties with his close friend Rocky (Chunky Pandey), the pair maybe getting old but their spirits still remain youthful and continue to live the lifestyle they have been accustomed to, into their 40’s. Jazz is disinterested in having a traditional ‘Indian family-life’, and has a slew of one-night stands. Little did he know on one of the several rendezvous with women, he has fathered a child (Alaya Furniturewala), the existence of whom he learns after almost two decades when she comes to London looking to get acquainted with him. Jazz, being in his 40’s is barely able to keep up with his womanizer-carefree lifestyl

Serious Men(2020)- Review Serious Men is yet another attempt by Netflix to create a quality film independent of the traditional production houses, in Hindi for the Indian market as they did with Roma in Mexico. But this film too can be added to the failed attempts list of Netflix. Serious Men centers around Ayyan Mani (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a smart and intelligent man yet uneducated and by his own accounts unprivileged, and his attempts to make sure his son has all the ‘privileges’ that he was not fortunate enough to have and make sure his son lives a better life than he did. As simple as the above task seems, Ayyan makes it a little too complicated with a few white lies and rule breaking. The story lacks depth and is a further reminder that, in the modern era of Indian entertainment films only with renowned actors will still fail if the film doesn’t have a good story and a strong screenplay. As has been the case for some time now Nawazuddin’s acting is unquestionable which brings