Lest you dismiss Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Naa as an ordinary movie…
If you are curious about the movie, read the papers of the past month for info about JTYJN and decide if you’ll enjoy such a movie. Because people’s tastes differ, but good movies don’t deserve to be unfairly criticised (though I doubt you’d do that if you watch JTYJN).
Read the review of the movie for good measure.
Now, about JTYJN
The clichéd youth romance format will be back with a bang, provided people follow JTYJN’s example and make such love stories tweaked to suit today’s audiences who enjoy movies that have more interesting elements than saccharine sweet love and little else, or little significance attached to anything else. Again, such romances shouldn’t be dime-a-dozen in Bollywood in the coming years. Because are there many able filmmakers willing to create a film like JTYJN in the format in the next few years?
Though JTYJN has an old fashioned story, the characterisation is good. Many characters have a lovely individuality, and are integrated in the story in such a way that the actors impress and make you notice so many things. A ‘typical’ girl-boy film that makes you pay attention. Now, that’s different!
Imran and Genelia are indeed the stars of the show. Perfect casting!
Imran puts up a good performance and probably has millions of teenage girls hooked with that boyish cuteness and vulnerability. He is natural in the romantic scenes. Here I should make a mention of Manjari Phadnis (Meghna). Pretty lass with eyes that men will drown in. She puts in a good performance in a character that the scriptwriter and director have done justice to.
And Genelia! She’s in the skin of the character! If she could act like a lovable kid in Santhosh Subramaniam, she shows that she can play Aditi Mahant very well too. It’s only her third film in Hindi, and it looks like both her bubbly cuteness and acting are going to make waves. Keep it up, girl!
Ratna Pathak Shah as Imran’s mom rocks. Naseeruddin Shah has a ball entertaining us. Sushant is alternately the chivalrous but smooth dude, and drunken asshole to the hilt. The rest of the cast has done their bit quite ok. As we know, bad acting will stick out like a sore thumb, and that didn’t happen.
The climax is enjoyable, if you pardon the cliché elements (which I did), and like the generous dollops of quintessential Bollywoodishness added to it.
‘Pappu can’t dance’ still played in my head to a vision of me boogying, hours after I walked out.
The review’s not over yet. Here’s a part-review:
Some things that make JTYJN even more special:
Aditi’s fiancé giving her a parting ‘shot’… err… power slap. How many of us would expect that in a Bollywood movie? Or expect him to him to slap so hard?
Manjari and Imran having a peaceful break-up (albeit a really sad one for Manjari).
Ratna Pathak Shah - Showing the way for cool movie moms this decade.
Imran’s dreams of a cloaked warrior chasing the ‘villains’, and in the third dream, finding that he is the warrior.
Aditi’s brother Amit telling her he wants her to be with Imran, because Imran is an ‘achcha’ ladka, unlike himself.
Amit himself, who had me drooling, even as I was wondering if the character was gay…
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