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Movie Review: Jannat

Movie Review: Jannat

Banner: Vishesh Films
Producer: Mukesh Bhatt
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Star Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Samir Kochhar, Sonal Chauhan, Vishal Malhotra, Javed Sheikh (Pakistan)
Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty, Kamran Ahmed
Cinematography: Manoj Soni
Screenplay: Vishesh Bhatt

The movie “Janant” shows a man taking up shortcuts of evil means to get his “Jannat”(heaven) that ultimately leads him to his downfall. Like the Bhatt camp movies, the movie has the magnetism of music and a real life script that draws audience but the movie lacks grasp after the initial first - half and reason is, unconvincing twists and turns in the story , and inept performances by the lead casts.

The story of the movie is about Arjun who is into making money through the game of cards and one day he meets a girl Zoya in a mall and immediately falls in love with her. He buys a diamond ring for Zoya and to pay the debt he tries his hands in the game of cricket betting. Arjun’s father was a known police inspector who never allowed greed to get over his profession but Arjun felt that his father couldn’t get his dreams fulfilled because he was faithful to his profession.

The ambitious young man Arjun has the sixth sense that helps him take right movies in the betting business and he gets associated to a bookie mafia headed by don Abu who heads a terrorist group based in South Africa. Arjun is intelligent enough to bet on the best to make huge money. His growth in fast in the betting world and his growing heights comes as a surprise to the police that is investing the cricket betting cases.

In the meantime Arjun has no time for his love Zoya and he struggles to get to her. Zoya’s father suspects Arjun to be into a wrong business but Arjun every time escapes getting caught doing anything illegal and the girl is sure that she met a right person for herself. But one day she finds out that Arjun is into the wrong world and she tries to help Arjun out of the betting world with the help of ACP Malhotra. At the same time, the underworld don offers Arjun with limitless money and Arjun is confused which way to select for his life.

The movie fails for proper direction and script in the second half. The climax is feeble. The songs glue to the story of the movie and lyrics of the songs are also good. Song “Zara si dil me” is good. Cinematography is lovely. Real life cricket incidents like the Pakistan’s coach Bob Woolmer’s death is shown in the movie and the sequences making fun of cricketers are also shown in the movie like cricketers in dressing room and former cricketers judging television shows. The performance of debutant Sonal Chauhan is average and same can be said for Emraan Hashmi.

The movie will get viewers since it is based on a real life story and in the summer vacations there is no competition from any good movie in this weekend but the movie lacks attraction and it is not a complete three hour entertainer.

Rating: 5/10

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By: Staff Reporter - NewzWatch May 16, 2008

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