Jaaneman Hindi Film

[Jesper Sahu]

Suhaanand Piya fall in love in college and elope. However, he kept his marriage a secret to further his career as a movie star and when his career hits a low, he returns home to find out that she has left him. She does not answer his calls or letters, and he soon receives a divorce notice in the mail.

Suhaan and Bonney hatch a plan to get Agastya and Piya together so that Suhaan does not need to pay alimony to Piya and Agastya can get the girl of his dreams. Suhaan accompanies Agastya to New York to help Agastya win Piya over. They rent an apartment opposite Piya's and watch her every move using telescopes, binoculars, and surveillance techniques. Using a headset, Suhaan feeds Agastya lines to woo Piya with and eventually succeeds in getting Piya and Agastya together.

One night, Suhaan finds out Piya has a baby girl, Suhaan's daughter. He realizes that she left him since she did not want her and the baby to ruin Suhaan's film career. Suhaan realizes his mistake and tries to make amends and start a new life with Piya and his daughter, Suhaani. Unfortunately, before he can act, Piya gets engaged to Agastya.

It later emerges that Piya's brother, Vishal (Nawwab Shah), had been hiding letters that Suhaan wrote to her and was responsible for initiating the divorce process. Agastya realizes that Piya is still in love with Suhaan and not him; so, he reveals the truth and tells her to be with Suhaan. Piya flies back to India where Suhaan is trying to find work as a small-time actor. They express their mutual love, reuniting their broken family.

A few years later, Agastya is on a NASA Space Shuttle and initiates a video conference with Suhaan and Piya (on Suhaan's birthday). He introduces them to his new girlfriend who looks strikingly like Piya.

The music for the film was released on 8 September 2006.[4] The music is composed by Anu Malik and includes a few playback singers forming the former contestants of Indian Idol. Lyrics are penned by Gulzar. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 1,250,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's eighth highest-selling.[5]

Pranab Kapadia, the UK distributor of Jaan-E-Mann said "Jaan-E-Mann's figures have picked up dramatically in Britain. Although the film grossed a mere 18,000 on its opening day, the film has experienced a remarkable upswing, grossing 40,000 on Monday and 60,000 on Tuesday. The audience and critics reception has been overwhelming."[8]

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 out of 5, saying "On the whole, JAAN-E-MANN balances humor and emotions beautifully. In fact, it's a BIG film in all respects -- right from its cast to the extravagant sets to the lavish making, besides, of course, unadulterated entertainment it has to offer. At the box-office, the Diwali and Idd holidays will prove bountiful for the film and add to the big returns. Business-wise, JAAN-E-MANN should fare best at multiplexes and also at major centres, besides Overseas. But its business at comparatively smaller centres, where masala films dominate, is bound to be affected by DON's presence. However, if the strong word of mouth catches on, the business at smaller centres will add to its booty."[9] Poonam Joshi of BBC.com gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, writing "Jaan-E-mann simultaneously parodies the worst elements of Hindi cinema, while exulting in the best that Bollywood has to offer, making for an unexpectedly original and entertaining film."[10] Raja Sen of Rediff.com gave the film 3 out of 5 stars stating "In the end, what echoes in your ears as you leave is Akki's thick, goofy he-he-he laugh. It's the best thing in the film."[11]

It is indeed rare to solely fixate on bad (or lazy) writing in cinema. Often bad writing comes hand in glove with either bad or worse direction, and/or acting of a similar bad-ness. So the attention given specifically to the writing dilutes.

But when the movie is acted and directed with earnest craft, but the scenes still linger without meaning, and the lines don't crackle, you achingly look towards the writer, for something went awfully wrong at their desk.

For me, Jawani Jaaneman was that rare film; a novel concept gone awry. It is the story of Jazz or Jaswinder Singh (Saif Ali Khan in a performance that peaks when he reluctantly brings out the reading glasses, or keeps the phone screen at a distance to read it) reconciling to his age. He starts off as a relentless playboy who refuses to accept the ravages of time- his greying hair, instead finding refuge in the elusive ravines of youth-hood, inked in an obvious spot, his hands, always wrapped in graphic tees, and his hairline betraying a past that, as his close friend and hairstylist says, is much longer than his future.

On one fateful drunken night, he finds out that the girl he got back home in pursuit of a gratifying hookup wants to tell him that she, Tia (an instantly crackling, and wholesome performance by Alaya) might be his daughter. The story then becomes of his coming of age, from denial to acceptance, catalysed by her. (Female-teaching-man is a genre waiting to be labelled. Even so, many of our cop revenge dramas are all catalysed by experiences of a woman, while slowly edging them into a fadeout as the actors foreground in machismo.)

But the thing about the youth that Jazz is trying to emulate, is that they are largely unmoved, and uncaring. Jassi's conscious, try-hard self-destruction feels even more jarring as a result. Almost to shove this contrast even more, we are given Tia who embodies the millennial nonchalance.

There's a non-emotiveness to her dialogues and therefore, her performance, which though initially frustrating (When she willingly goes to Jazz's house, is she aware that he is only looking for a hookup? She doesn't look or register even mild discomfort when he dims the lights and sprays the room with glitter from the disco ball rotating above their heads.) I found myself quite endeared by eventually. Nothing will faze her; no problem exists that doesn't have embedded in it, a solution. She takes rejection without much drama, in the same way she takes in her new family. Her emotions are muted, her dialogues are tonally flat (await an awful metaphor about her being sunshine waiting for rain, and instead finding a flood), and the only time she is really incensed in the entire film (remember, this is a character whose father is a reckless horny man-child, whose mother is a gruelling pagan hippie, and whose boyfriend with whom she is about to have a child is a pre-teenager in a post-teenager body) is when a tree is about to be cut. This is peak millennial.

But let me get back to the writing. I really wished the script of this film was given the luxury of a few more drafts. Two things specifically that needed to be mended- honing the humor, and toning down the relentless exposition.

There are two pivotal scenes in the first half: one, where Jazz is told that he might be a father, and one where the doctor tells him he is not just a father, but about to become a grandfather. Both of these scenes are the stuff comic material blooms effortlessly out of. But neither of these scenes moved me to even break out a chuckle, or a weak smile. There's a deadpan-ness to it that even good acting cannot salvage.

Now, about the relentless exposition. We are told that Jazz loves his independence, not once but plenty of times. We are also shown it. There is also conversation around it. Metaphors, jokes, role-playing, alcohol competitions, and angsty rants. None of them adds any heft to his character beyond a point. We get it, people around him mock the anachronism of his age against his dyed hair. How many times does it need to be said? Registering a point is quite different from its onslaught. Perhaps, they were trying to drum up humour, but nothing twitched.

This movie is then, perhaps a study in misplaced genre. Postured as a comedy-drama, it would have served both, the acting and the film better if it was a drama-comedy instead. Before you register the drama of the scenes you are made to register its attempt at humour through the background score. I would be interested in knowing what the inverse would have looked like given such heavyweight emotive actors. Tabu is wasted in a caricature hippie role. (Despite being given a good chunk of screen-time on the trailer, and even having her name on the trailer title on YouTube, she is a mere 'special appearance' in the film. I felt cheated.)

This film, by no stretch of the imagination, is bad in the conventional sense. It's lazy. It doesn't make you groan, it just doesn't make you laugh. It is full of promise, but such a fragile, experimental promise that it cracks easily under the weight of a script that wasn't given enough time to brew.

Jawaani Jaaneman Box Office Collection: Saif Ali Khan latest release film Jawaani Deewani has received a lukewarm response at the box office. The Nitin Kakkar's directorial film has minted around Rs 20 crore in its first week at the box office.

Jawaani Jaaneman is faring well as compared to Saif Ali Khan's past solo releases--Laal Kaptaan (2019) and Baazaar (2018). The 49-year-old actor's Laal Kaptaan was a dud at the box office. Whereas, film Baazaar, recorded a lifetime collections of Rs 24.77 crore, according to Bollywood Hungama.

Tanhaji has accumulated roughly Rs 260 crore, till now. Jawaani Jaaneman also faces competition from Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor starrer Street Dancer 3D, that has minted a total of Rs 70.21 crore in its second week.

Jawaani Jananeman revolves around a middle-aged man who suddenly discovers he has 21-year-old pregnant daughter from his ex-girlfriend. In the film, Tabu has played the role of Saif's ex-girlfriend. Debutante actress Alaya F has essayed the role of Saif's daughter. Jawaani Jaaneman marks the Bollywood debut Alaya F, who is actress Pooja Bedi's daughter.

Jawaani Jaaneman Box Office Collection: Saif Ali Khan starrer film Jawaani Jaaneman has crashed at the box office in its first four days. The comedy flick, also starring veteran actress Tabu, has minted Rs 13.83 crore in its opening weekend. Jawaaani Jaaneman earned Rs 3.24 crore on its Day 1. On Saturday and Sunday, its collection saw a mild surge at Rs 4.55 crore and Rs 5.04 crore.

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