REVIEW: Jannat is boring as hell!
As children our parents would promise to tell us one story before we went to bed. So every night we'd beg them to tell us a really long story.
But what would start as a fascinating tale of kings and knights would end up becoming so banal and boring that one of us would either just ask them to stop or just fall asleep.
Debutant director Kunal Deshmukh's Jannat is a classic example of this kind of storytelling. For those who haven't been able to figure out the story of this film from its hoarding here goes:
Story
Arjun Dikshit (Emraan Hashmi), a compulsive gambler finds himself in trouble once every other day with the loan sharks. One fine day he sees Zoya (Sonal Chauhan), a call center executive eyeing a beautiful diamond ring. A bit of a Casanova, Arjun spends the last of his money and buys it for her.
Somewhere along the way, he realises he is so good at predicting cricket matches that could well make a living out of it. By now he is in love with Zoya and so he impresses her with his singing and driving abilities just like Rajesh Khanna did in Aradhana. That is not to mention the expensive gifts he buys for her every other day, while exercising his vocal chords simultaneously.
About a couple of songs later, he finds himself in Cape Town. He graduates from betting to fixing matches for an underworld don.
Zoya, of course, is under the impression that his 'import-export' business has suddenly flourished. So she's quite happy, (though not quite because she can't spend as much time with him anymore) till a CBI Inspector tells her the truth.
Good music . Decent direction. With a bad screen play. N over hyped movie.
Seriously, i started crying at the end. I think the movie's excellent when it comes to emotions and reality behind hidden things. Keep on going emraan. May u hav success in ur career........
The movie sux! Pathetic! Music is good though.