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Jannat: Paradise lost! | 2008-05-16
A newbie skank, a serial kisser and a 'your misery is my moolah machine' filmmaker. Surely not the makings of a dream-weekend!
Directed By: Kunal Deshmukh
Actors: Emraan Hashmi, Samir Kochhar, Sonal Chauhan, Vishal Malhotra and Javed Sheikh
The Bitch‘s first memory of Mahesh Bhatt and co. is when she saw "Sadak" and immediately recognized that it as a photocopy of a C grade Van Damme movie in bits and pieces.
That was then and now the Bhatt camp‘s tested formula of catchy songs, sasta newcomers, sundry actors, Emraan hashmi and his kisses and a useless script comes to life again. This time with match fixing in cricket as the backdrop.
Hashmi instead of fixing matches is shown fixing his love story throughout the movie. If only the nulls had done their research properly, this could have been a genuine movie with proper insights on the match fixing nexus instead of a worn out love ballad.
Hashmi is this over confident road side idiot who thinks that he is made for bigger things, breaks the strongest windowpanes with his bare fists because his girl was ogling at the diamond behind it. He has seen an English movie called ‘The Sixth Sense‘ and thinks he has one because he can predict when Sehwag will get out and when Dada will hit a six.
His character likes saying corny dialogues like "jo sochte hai who zindagi bhar sochte he reh jaate hai" and "Cricket aur jism wali mein jyada farak nahi hai, jawani khatam to career khatam". Soon he becomes a big time bookie, probably with the help of such dialogues, pataos his girl, shifts to South Africa under the wings of a big time goon like Dawood called Abu and fixes matches for him, until his girl turns him in. (This was only till the interval)
Seriously he should think of an image makeover, learn something new in acting, and stop doing such roles; otherwise he will piss all the little found glory that he has with movies like this. Oh! But then again, who will cast him apart from the Bhatts!
Sonal Chauhan probably did the movie for free because she got to kiss Hashmi not once but twice. She looks decent, nice in certain parts, but didn‘t have much to do throughout the movie except shed glycerin and one item type song. Her moment of glory comes when she shouts "You bastards, you bastards, you bastards" at the end of the movie, where she tries to pack as many emotions as possible in those few seconds for other directors to notice her. Otherwise her face looks the same throughout the movie.
For most of the time The Bitch found herself interested in the push back seat more than the movie.
Sameer Kochhar does well and should have been used more. But he is shown munching a sandwich through the movie. Probably to hide his face so that people don‘t confuse him as the hero. The Bitch wonders why his character, an ACP, is shown lounging around with the Indian taxpayer‘s money in South Africa, running after a bookie when he could be more useful back here. Probably because of the decreasing crime rate in India.
He complains of not being able to afford "sone ke kangan" for his wife, and wears high end blazers at the same time. He also orders the gora guys of the South African police at his whims and fancies, but since when did they start taking orders from an Indian police officer!!? Probably the Gandhi connection did the trick. The Bitch also wonders which police force in the world would employee officers with long pony tails as shown in the move. Kya kare, nothing escapes The Bitch‘s scrutinizing eye.
The movie has countless flaws. At one point Hashmi and his girl are going through a financial crisis but are still shown living in the lap of luxury on a beach side house.
There are other actors with a blink and miss role not worth mentioning.
Music is good and we seriously hope that it‘s not copied from somewhere, because it‘s Pritam‘s.
Overall as always a useless movie from the Bhatt camp, trivializing a very important issue for the sake of mixing it with a love story. One which could have been a lot better! The best thing about the movie is the trailer of ‘Aashayein‘ in the beginning. Ha Ha!
If you feel like taking a cricket bat and beating the shit out of the director for making such a movie, you are not alone. But then again remember that this is Vishesh Productions, so you can‘t really expect anything more from them.It was your fault that you went for the movie.
A newbie skank, a serial kisser and a 'your misery is my moolah machine' filmmaker. Surely not the makings of a dream-weekend!
Directed By: Kunal Deshmukh
Actors: Emraan Hashmi, Samir Kochhar, Sonal Chauhan, Vishal Malhotra and Javed Sheikh
The Bitch‘s first memory of Mahesh Bhatt and co. is when she saw "Sadak" and immediately recognized that it as a photocopy of a C grade Van Damme movie in bits and pieces.
That was then and now the Bhatt camp‘s tested formula of catchy songs, sasta newcomers, sundry actors, Emraan hashmi and his kisses and a useless script comes to life again. This time with match fixing in cricket as the backdrop.
Hashmi instead of fixing matches is shown fixing his love story throughout the movie. If only the nulls had done their research properly, this could have been a genuine movie with proper insights on the match fixing nexus instead of a worn out love ballad.
Hashmi is this over confident road side idiot who thinks that he is made for bigger things, breaks the strongest windowpanes with his bare fists because his girl was ogling at the diamond behind it. He has seen an English movie called ‘The Sixth Sense‘ and thinks he has one because he can predict when Sehwag will get out and when Dada will hit a six.
His character likes saying corny dialogues like "jo sochte hai who zindagi bhar sochte he reh jaate hai" and "Cricket aur jism wali mein jyada farak nahi hai, jawani khatam to career khatam". Soon he becomes a big time bookie, probably with the help of such dialogues, pataos his girl, shifts to South Africa under the wings of a big time goon like Dawood called Abu and fixes matches for him, until his girl turns him in. (This was only till the interval)
Seriously he should think of an image makeover, learn something new in acting, and stop doing such roles; otherwise he will piss all the little found glory that he has with movies like this. Oh! But then again, who will cast him apart from the Bhatts!
Sonal Chauhan probably did the movie for free because she got to kiss Hashmi not once but twice. She looks decent, nice in certain parts, but didn‘t have much to do throughout the movie except shed glycerin and one item type song. Her moment of glory comes when she shouts "You bastards, you bastards, you bastards" at the end of the movie, where she tries to pack as many emotions as possible in those few seconds for other directors to notice her. Otherwise her face looks the same throughout the movie.
For most of the time The Bitch found herself interested in the push back seat more than the movie.
Sameer Kochhar does well and should have been used more. But he is shown munching a sandwich through the movie. Probably to hide his face so that people don‘t confuse him as the hero. The Bitch wonders why his character, an ACP, is shown lounging around with the Indian taxpayer‘s money in South Africa, running after a bookie when he could be more useful back here. Probably because of the decreasing crime rate in India.
He complains of not being able to afford "sone ke kangan" for his wife, and wears high end blazers at the same time. He also orders the gora guys of the South African police at his whims and fancies, but since when did they start taking orders from an Indian police officer!!? Probably the Gandhi connection did the trick. The Bitch also wonders which police force in the world would employee officers with long pony tails as shown in the move. Kya kare, nothing escapes The Bitch‘s scrutinizing eye.
The movie has countless flaws. At one point Hashmi and his girl are going through a financial crisis but are still shown living in the lap of luxury on a beach side house.
There are other actors with a blink and miss role not worth mentioning.
Music is good and we seriously hope that it‘s not copied from somewhere, because it‘s Pritam‘s.
Overall as always a useless movie from the Bhatt camp, trivializing a very important issue for the sake of mixing it with a love story. One which could have been a lot better! The best thing about the movie is the trailer of ‘Aashayein‘ in the beginning. Ha Ha!
If you feel like taking a cricket bat and beating the shit out of the director for making such a movie, you are not alone. But then again remember that this is Vishesh Productions, so you can‘t really expect anything more from them.It was your fault that you went for the movie.
Comments (1)
Copied Music Issues...
well, a part of da music is copied actually..
da remix of da song judaai(which dey called a ‘kilogram mix‘) is a direct note-by-note lift from a club song called Tell me why by Supermode..Check it out n u‘ll know..its a good album though.. | Bitch Part-2
well, a part of da music is copied actually..
da remix of da song judaai(which dey called a ‘kilogram mix‘) is a direct note-by-note lift from a club song called Tell me why by Supermode..Check it out n u‘ll know..its a good album though.. | Bitch Part-2
