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Jai Ho… Salman Khan’s Sunny Deol Act
Jai Ho has been the
most anticipated movie of 2013 and 2014 as it was announced to be released
initially at the end of 2013 by Sohail Khan under the name of “Sher Khan” and later
as “Mental”, but the name was finalized as “Jai Ho”. The movie is a remake of
Stalin (a Telugu film inspired by “Pay It Forward”). The movie has a lot to
offer to the common man “the aam janta”. It has drama, action, romance, comedy,
weird songs, Salman’s very own dancing style and bollywood masala.
Jai Ho revolves
around Jai Agnihotri (Salman Khan), an ex-army officer who was court-martialed
because of his bravery and not following the orders of his superior in command
Major Arjun (Suniel Shetty). Jai runs a motor garage and with his friends Babu
(Yash tonk) and Sumit (Ashmit Patel) helps the aam janta (the common people) by
saving them from the attiyachaar of bad people. Accidently, Jai comes across
the malicious politician Dashrat Singh (Danny Denzongpa) and his family of
pitiless power-driven scoundrels (Mukul Dev, Sana Khan and Haroon Qazi). Rest
is the usual story of good winning over the evil.
The best thing
about Jai Ho is that it has a cast which viewers would see after a hiatus. Even
for brief roles some big names of their times have been casted. Like Sharad
Kapoor, Mukul Dev, Aditya Panscholi, Nauheed Cyrusi, Vikas Bhalla, Tulip Joshi,
Genelia Deshmukh, and Sameer Khakar along with Tabu have blessed with roles
after a long gap in this film.
After watching Jai
Ho, one can easily understand that it’s no one else but Salman Khan who can
effortlessly step into the shoes of Sunny Deol. The action sequences shown in Jai Ho are larger than life, the way
Salman bhai flies, fights and twists and turns goons in the air can only be
matched with the class which Sunny Deol or South Indian movies have.
Jai Ho offers a
lesson as well and that is “do good to 3 people in life and ask them to continue
this chain”. The concept is theoretically right but practically is as close to
as having “ideal gas” in reality.
As far as the
performances are concerned, it’s like all Salman Khan movies; a Salman Khan
enterprise. He fights likes a tiger and he roars like a lion (which at times
sounded quite funny as well). But if you are a die-hard fan of Salman bhai it
is digestible, something of similar idiocy would have caused a lot of giggles
in the cinema halls – if it would be someone else. Tabu is like always,
composed, effective and effortless. She sparks wherever the high voltage scenes
demanded the flash. Denny is perfect in his character and leaves an impact.
Daisy Shah dances really well and looks gorgeously sexy in all the songs.
Nadira Babbar (Salman’s mom) overacts and is very loud. There isn’t much for
Aditya Panscholi but he has strong screen presence and his expressions are
worth noticing. Mukul Dev is remarkable, so is Haroon Qazi (debut).
Sameer Khakar (the
drunkard) has returned to the celluloid after a very long time. He gives a
noteworthy performance. This actor should be given more roles (Parinda was one
of his finest movies). The kid portraying Salman’s nephew Naman Jain is a
natural talent, this is his forth movie (after Chillar Party, Raanjhana and
Bombay Talkies) and he is simply a sweetheart. Santosh Shukla (Manik) leaves a
mark. Sudesh Lahiri manages to bring smile on audiences’ faces. Pulkit Samrat
adds freshness and delivers a very calculated performance.
If you are planning
to watch this movie then leave your brain at rest and imagine you are going to
watch a movie with a lot of dhishoom-dhamakas / fight sequences, flying bikes,
one man beating up the entire nation.
Jai Ho is literally
a new-age version of “One Man Army” and a tribute to Sunny Deol’s “Dhhai Kilo
ka haath”.
I rate it 3 out of
5 on the basis of performances, Salman-power and some emotional scenes.
This post was initially posted at Express Tribune's Blog, under my name.
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