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 Jannat is the film that shows a man taking
up shortcuts of evil means to get his "Jannat" (heaven) on the earth. The theme
of the movie is clear-- there is only entry into the crimes, but no exit. The
film is made in the line of gambling and match-fixing while the prime theme of
the film is love.
Emran Hashmi and Mukesh Bhatt combination
always demonstrated the darker episode of life in their movies. All the
previous movies (Murder, Gangster and others) had a negative touch. In Jannat
except the name itself the movie holds the like subjects.
Produced by Vishesh Films, ‘Jannat' was the
debut of Kunal Deshmukh as director and also Vishesh Bhatt as a screenplay
writer in the movie. The heroine Zoya (Sonal Chauhan) also marks her debut
through the movie. Arjun (Emraan Hashmi) and Zoya (Sonal Chauhan) are the two
central characters of the movie where Arjun is highly ambitious in life to make
huge money as well as wining the heart of his love, Zoya.
Story synopsis
Ambitious Arjun is reluctant to make money
through hard labour. He always aims big and for the time being makes his living
paying card. Life goes on like that way until he meets the cute Zoya (Sonal
Chauhan) through a chance accident at a shopping mall. Since then his lone aim is
to be rich at any cost to come out of his ordinary life. Soon he steps up into
the world of match-fixing shifting to his base to South Africa and subsequently
became a bookie.
By dint of his sharp intelligence Arjun
could bet on the best and earns easy money through his illegal means. At the
same time he becomes associated to a bookie mafia led by don Abu who heads a
criminal group based in South Africa. However, his quick growth in the betting
world attracts the attention of the police. But Arjun always escapes getting
caught despite doing unlawful things.
On the other hand Zoya is confident that
she got a right person for herself whereas her father smells Arjun to be into a
wrong business. One day Zoya also figures out that Arjun is into the wrong
world and efforts to assist Arjun out of the underworld with the help of ACP
Malhotra. After being imprisoned, he decides to give up his bad ways and work
hard to keep his love.At that time, the underworld don (Javed Sheikh) offers
Arjun with unlimited money and Arjun gets confused to choose between the two---the
love of his life and his newly got success and power. The story goes on with
the revealing climax and ends up ruin of Arjun.
Presentation
The performance of Emraan Hashmi is amazing.
Instead of being a lusty playboy like his all other movies Emran appears as an
actor in the movie. Debutant Sonal
Chauhan also did well. Sonal Chauhan showed some trouble at the beginning but
later on she performed well. Javed Sheikh came up with a stunner and Sameer
Kochhar did his role with perfection.
Jawed Sheikh is luminous. This is his
finest work so far. Samir Kochar is outstanding. Vishal Malhotra is first-rate.
Shakeel Khan does very well. Abhimanyu Singh is talented. Vipin Sharma leaves a
mark in a brief role. The others were above average.
Manoj Soni's cinematography is well. The
screenplay and costume department look good. Sanjay Masoom's dialogues are good.
A few dialogues in fact, are refreshing to the ears. Background score [Raju
Singh] deserves top marks.
Direction & script
Both debutants-- the director and the
script w riter-- have shown outstanding potential with the story idea of Jannat. The movie highlights more on the love with
the cricket. Although the first half appears in a slow mode but things gets
momentum just before intermission and the second half goes on with full of climax.
The debutant director's bold attempt at a
new subject was seen in the presentation and the clearness was visible in the
narration. Some background score coupled with some really luminous camerawork has
backed him a lot in the movie. The editing and the script were also good.
Music
Pritam is the music composer of the Mukesh
Bhatt movie Jannat. The lyrics of the songs have been written by Sayeed Quadri.
‘Zara Sa' -KK sings this lovely romantic song. This one successfully marks a
good start for the album Jannat. ‘Zara Sa' (Club Mix) is fast and brilliant in
KK voice.
Based on 80's hit Kamran Ahmed has written
the lyrics for the song ‘Judai' and he also gave his voice with Richa Sharma. The
difference comes with the new beats in the Judai. ‘Judai' ‘Kilogram Mix'- gets
heavy in beats. Richa Sharma solely sings the song ‘Lambi Judai' faultlessly. ‘Haan
Tu' with tabla beats and Pakistani sufi pop kind is good to listen. Rana
Mazumdar sings the good fresh love song ‘Door Naa Ja'. The title song ‘Jannat Jahan' is a rock song
by Rupam Islam and lyrics by Neelesh Mishra. The energy in the song is stormy
and the rocks go well with the theme song. Overall the music of Jannat under
the composition of Pritam is great!
Final remarks
The movie is overall good and enjoyable.
The betting world is shown well. The movie rightly conveyed the message that
the money involved in the real world is way beyond the imagination. It works
fine but sometimes gets impractical. After all it is a good movie which takes
up a different subject and gives it a due treatment.
Lastly, music of Jannat is awesome!
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