‘Jo Tera Hai Woh Mera Hai’ review: An easy-going comedy about a Mumbai house capture

How far would you go – or how low would you stoop – to own a bungalow in Mumbai? This rhetorical question produces easy-going laughs in Jo Tera Hai Woh Mera Hai.

Raj Trivedi’s Hindi comedy is a worthy addition to the set of films about home-owning aspirations in one of the most usuriously priced property markets in the world. The JioCinema streaming release has a superbly sly central performance by Amit Sial as a man who will stop at almost nothing to fulfil his heart’s desire.

Mitesh’s need is simple: to own the bungalow that he has been eying since he was a boy. Mitesh has been on the other side of the gate, enviously looking in. He now wants in, at any cost.

Inveigling himself with the bungalow’s owner Govinda (Paresh Rawal) is easy enough, despite a sign warning, “Trespassers will be killed.”

But managing the old man’s demands, balancing his wife Rukmini (Sonali Kulkarni) and his children, and attending to his mistress Preeti (Sonnalli Seygall) while also keeping the money flowing does fluster the even-tempered Mitesh on occasion.

Greed is both good comical in Aditya Rawal’s screenplay, which has dialogue by Devang Tiwari and Amit Pradhan. A host of secondary actors waft in and out, including Faisal...

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