You watch a movie, you write a review, one thing. You read a review that sets your expectation quite high, and then you watch the movie, and finally you write a review. Quite another thing. Especially if by the time you get down to the business of putting pen to paper, scribbling down your takes on what you had seen, the movie is already declared a runaway hit. In all probability, your opinion would tend to get a bit biased…….But as it turned out to be; Jaane Tu Ya Jaane naa has failed to impress me as much as it has the public and the critics. Despite of its tremendous success, I didn’t feel to have seen anything sensational except for the performances of Imran Khan and Prateik Babbar. To me it was yet another formula movie about friendship and love. Not a boring one though, but nothing spectacular to write home about.
In fact I was quite surprised to see critics go gaga over the uniqueness of the flick, some of them even seem to be spellbound by the way the opening scene was executed. But I just thought that this particular story-telling idea was straight away lifted, or should I say the clichéd word inspired out of the SRK-Rani Mukherji starrer Chalte Chalte, where a group of friends gather to tell a romantic tale to one of their new friends who is a stranger to the lead characters. And the saga of this friendship between a boy and a girl without realizing the love factor again had already been famously explored by Karan Johar, in his debut movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, with a slightly different flavor though.
But to give credit where it is due, Abbas Tyrewala has written and executed it quite competently, which maintains your interest level through out. And Imran, comes across as a supremely confident actor, effortlessly slipping into the character, which makes you wonder if really this was his debut venture.
Genelia has done a decent job, not any thing out of this world as claimed by a few fellow reviewers, Ratna Pathak is superb. Naseeruddin Shah didn’t have much to do, but his presence was quite effective. Arbaaz and Sohail, the Khan brothers were their usual irritating selves in their guest appearances. The stunning package though was Prateik, who has a telling effect as the jealousy-struck brother of Genelia.
Over all as a product, the film is not at all disappointing. It’s definitely worth a watch for the performances, for the kind of technicality that is so visible in each frame, for the youthful music scored by A.R.Rehman, and last but not the least for the sincerity with which both producer Aamir Khan and director Abbas Tyrewala have approached the job at hand.
In fact I was quite surprised to see critics go gaga over the uniqueness of the flick, some of them even seem to be spellbound by the way the opening scene was executed. But I just thought that this particular story-telling idea was straight away lifted, or should I say the clichéd word inspired out of the SRK-Rani Mukherji starrer Chalte Chalte, where a group of friends gather to tell a romantic tale to one of their new friends who is a stranger to the lead characters. And the saga of this friendship between a boy and a girl without realizing the love factor again had already been famously explored by Karan Johar, in his debut movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, with a slightly different flavor though.
But to give credit where it is due, Abbas Tyrewala has written and executed it quite competently, which maintains your interest level through out. And Imran, comes across as a supremely confident actor, effortlessly slipping into the character, which makes you wonder if really this was his debut venture.
Genelia has done a decent job, not any thing out of this world as claimed by a few fellow reviewers, Ratna Pathak is superb. Naseeruddin Shah didn’t have much to do, but his presence was quite effective. Arbaaz and Sohail, the Khan brothers were their usual irritating selves in their guest appearances. The stunning package though was Prateik, who has a telling effect as the jealousy-struck brother of Genelia.
Over all as a product, the film is not at all disappointing. It’s definitely worth a watch for the performances, for the kind of technicality that is so visible in each frame, for the youthful music scored by A.R.Rehman, and last but not the least for the sincerity with which both producer Aamir Khan and director Abbas Tyrewala have approached the job at hand.
What I urge though, is please don’t get carried away by its success, by the reviews and the trade reports……..just go out there without any expectation, you may still end up enjoying it.
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