+++ A Lifeless Tribute to the
Legendary Filmmaker +++
Movie Review:
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) ** Rating
Samar Anand , a
Punjabi munda who is an army officer- a street singer-a delivery boy-a waiter… well
film makers failed to justify his profession; saw Meera Thappar, a high class poor (in love)
Indian girl living in London while she was visiting church for her prayers who didn’t
want to marry an Indian Boy and aka SRK got the chance to grab the opportunity.
He followed her to the party and tried to play with the lady’s hidden emotions, then dance, Kiss, accident and Interval. Akira Rai, a Delhilite and a
documentary maker who wear a super-mini shorts even in Ladakh and who believes in the concept
of ‘easy to make out and easy to break up’ found the personal diary of Samar
and got to know about his love story. Now strangely our dilli ki billi works in
London in Discovery Channel and requested Samar to visit London to authenticate
Her documentary where again he met with
an accident, than memory loss followed by patch up with Meera , memory gain ….aur
audience ki Saans mein Saans ka the end.
As far as
direction is concerned I’m not ready to accept this as a Yashji Venture …its easily
seems to be directed by Aditya along with Yash Ji and Marketing YashJi name to
make bucks on the name of his last venture. Yash ji health conditions were not
good since Veer Jara time (released in 2004) and that movie was also promoted
as the last movie of Yash Chopra Ji. It’s totally unfair to make Yashji worked in
extreme climatic conditions despite of his health. What people seem busy is to
enjoy fight between Ajay Devgan & SRK and which Fan club will win and ignoring
the fact that someone has lost his life because of exertion of work in his
80s..Also Yashi Ji heroines usually seen in sarees in snow clad mountains or under rains
or farms whether its chandini, Dil to Pagal
hai,Darr,Veer Jara but again this important thing is missing from this film
despite there was ample scope of the same.
Movie Review:
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) ** Rating
Theatre Release:
13 Nov 2012 (India)
Language:
Hindi
Direction: Late Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra
Label: Yash
Raj Films
Genre: Romance
Viewers
Group: 15+ (U/A)
The Critique
Lab Score Board
AVA Score:
4.44 (Max 10)
AVA Medal
Honor™© : Bronze
Recommendation
Level : Low (Read Review)
Reference
(Ŏ BRONZE Medal Ŏ SILVER Medal Ŏ Titanium Medal Ŏ GOLD Medal Ŏ PLATINUM Medal)
(L-Low M-Moderate H-High D-Don’t Miss it)
(Ŏ BRONZE Medal Ŏ SILVER Medal Ŏ Titanium Medal Ŏ GOLD Medal Ŏ PLATINUM Medal)
(L-Low M-Moderate H-High D-Don’t Miss it)
‘Jab Tak Hai
Jaan’ ironically celebrates the 50th anniversary of legendary film
maker Yash Chopra in Indian cinema who left us even without seeing the
screening of the film on silver screen. But will he cherish the project if he
got the chance to view it in the Heavens? The answer may not be likable to many of us since we live in a country who is blindfold passionate about cricket and cinema
and honor their representatives to the position of God and the disagreement may
lead into street wars, office wars or Home wars .To cut the story short ‘Jab Tak
Hai Jaan’ highly disappoints as Yash Ji venture and seems to be directed along
with Aditya Chopra without any logical
plot of the story, screenplay is totally missing and music doesn’t meet the
expectation of Yash ji Films from any angle.
If one starts
to describe the loopholes of the screenplay and script than this movie lost
relevance at very moment. In a scene when Katrina proposes SRK to Kiss he said Meera “you are crossing
the Line” despite the fact just few scenes back He proposed and Kissed her with
the comment “Tumne Mana nahi kiya”(You didn’t said No). Ladies are roaming in
mini shorts in London and Ladakh. Anushka as a documentary maker gets an easy entry
in the army and living and sleeping between army people without any lady
officer support. Does Indian army is so easy to approach... May be that’s why we
are getting terrorist troubles everyday.
As far as
direction is concerned I’m not ready to accept this as a Yashji Venture …its easily
seems to be directed by Aditya along with Yash Ji and Marketing YashJi name to
make bucks on the name of his last venture. Yash ji health conditions were not
good since Veer Jara time (released in 2004) and that movie was also promoted
as the last movie of Yash Chopra Ji. It’s totally unfair to make Yashji worked in
extreme climatic conditions despite of his health. What people seem busy is to
enjoy fight between Ajay Devgan & SRK and which Fan club will win and ignoring
the fact that someone has lost his life because of exertion of work in his
80s..Also Yashi Ji heroines usually seen in sarees in snow clad mountains or under rains
or farms whether its chandini, Dil to Pagal
hai,Darr,Veer Jara but again this important thing is missing from this film
despite there was ample scope of the same.
Performances,
Mr Amitabh Bacchan tweeted SRK performance as best after Swedes; well either he
has not watched Swedes or ‘Jab tak hai Jaan’ completely, the very first scene
of his unconvincing Punjabi accent puts the audience down. About Katrina, baby besides looking beautiful you need to act also. Anushka too was very average in her role
much inspired by her own Band Baaja Barat style.
About Music,
A.R.Rehman music was a relief despite the fact Challa song opening track is a
direct lift from Eagle Eye Cherry’s Save Tonight song. Thou Choreography by Vaibhavi Merchant is worth mentioning for pre Ishq Shava Sequence.But lyrics by Gulzar are
disappointing. Overall Melody of the songs felt forced. Ishq Shava - does
anyone knows the real meaning of the same? Gulzar sahab aap hi bata do.
Cinematography
-The most pleasing part of the movie and Anil Mehta deserves the full score for
the same.
Chalte
Chalte , ere yaar picture bekaar despite JTHJ has our pyara Khan…
Thanks &
Regards
Yours AVA
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