EXCLUSIVE: Shalini Pandey confesses she “moved on in two days” after Jayeshbhai Jordaar’s underwhelming box office performance; says, “On paper, everything looks right. I realized…”

JAYESHBHAI JORDAAR is the story of an unusual hero. Jayeshbhai (Ranveer Singh) lives in Pravingarh, Gujarat with his wife Mudra (Shalini Pandey), daughter Siddhi (Jia Vaidya), father (Boman Irani) and mother Yashoda (Ratna Pathak Shah). Jayeshbhai’s father is the sarpanch of Pravingarh and is very orthodox and patriarchal. After Mudra... gave birth to a daughter, the sarpanch and Yashoda demand a son from her and Jayesh. However, when she conceives again and it comes to light that she'll give birth to a girl, she is forced to go for an abortion. Ultimately, she undergoes 6 abortions. She once again gets pregnant. When the sarpanch and Yashoda head to the clinic to determine the gender of the baby, the doctor claims that she is unable to comprehend. However, she secretly tells Jayeshbhai that Mudra is going to give birth to a girl. The doctor has made it clear that Mudra has become very weak due to multiple abortions. Hence, she won't be able to conceive again. The sarpanch and Yashoda have decided that if there’s a girl in Mudra’s womb, then Jayeshbhai will dump Mudra and remarry. Jayeshbhai loves Mudra and feels guilty for killing six unborn babies just due to their gender. This time, he’s not ready to take another life. On the internet, he comes across a video of a group of men in a village in Haryana. Their old-aged sarpanch, Amar (Puneet Issar), and the rest of the men are unmarried. This is because there are no girls left in the village after the villages ruthlessly practised female infanticide. Amar, in the video, claims that he’s ready to take care of any woman who comes to their village and would protect them. Jayeshbhai draws a plan and decides to run away with Mudra, Siddhi and their unborn baby girl from Pravingarh to Amar’s village, Laadopur. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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