Jab Tak Hai Jaan Review
- Film : Jab Tak Hai Jaan
- Producer : Acidity Chopra
- Director : Yash Chopra
- Star Cast : Shahrukh Khan Katrina Kaif Anushka Sharma..
- Music Director : A.R. Rahman
- Rating :
3.5
Other Ratings
Average Movie Rating
AVG:3.2
5
5Sify
3 It's all about loveWe meet all three characters early on in the film.
Deccan
3 A swansongThe Times of India
3.5 Jab Tak Hai Jaan..BharatStudent
3.25 A triangular loveRediff
3 A bomb defusal
Story
This is a documentary venture of a chivalrous student, Akira (Anushka Sharma) who happens to learn about the life of a bomb disposal officer Samar, SRK, and is interested in making that her documentary. SRK is the Man Who Cannot Die in the army.The movie is basically the flashback of the army star and his lost love. Samar plays the hardworking common man in London who has several menial jobs desperately to make ends meet. However, never disparaged by his condition, he once meets Meera, Katrina Kaif, a rich heiress which becomes the turning point of his life. Meera gets interested in learning Punjabi songs from Samar while he does it in exchange for English lessons. As you guessed already, the teacher-student relationship binds them in love despite Meera's engagement to someone else.
The present Samar is an equally hardworking man but an army officer, stubborn and bitter to the core, courageous nevertheless. He defuses bombs without the bomb suits (probably never watched Hurt Locker). Akira's interest in Samar is now beyond profession. Will Samar's heart melt for Akira would they have a chance together? Why do Meera and Samar part ways?
The answers to these questions are at a theater near you.
Analysis :
Aditya
Chopra and Devika Bhagat worked hard behind the screens on the
screenplay to make the movie look like a trademark Yash Chopra product.
Romantic and pleasant to say the least. Dialogues by Aditya Chopra are
some of the finest these days. A weak story makes the movie not the best
one. Though love, romance dominate the screen, there is more
frustration than the sympathy that was expected from audience at the
sentimental scenes, for example, the scene where Meera and Sir Jesus
make a pact. The love story is not a strong one too; Neetu Kapoor should
have had better lines.What makes the movie a drag is the climax, which would have been better if it were trimmed 20 more minutes. I could rather watch my nails grow than wait for the movie to end.
Late Yash Chopra's last direction is not his best, but from the perspective of this being his last one makes the view a little better. Two love stories in one movie, with great depth and detail to both of them is an incredible feat to achieve. That being said, you would definitely come out of the theater saying, “If only the climax had been well attended to”.
With a movie shot in Kashmir, you know what to expect on the screen when it comes to locations. Ladakh, London and Kashmir add color to the movie. Rahman's music though fine leaves much to be desired, or maybe because I expect a lot from a Academy Award winner. However, SRK's entry had the dramatic atmosphere with the BGM.
Slick Editing job by Namrata Rao.
Performance :
SRK's
acting as the army man was beyond accolades but he had exaggerated a
bit as the romantic guy. He, probably, has become too old for it now.
Katrina Kaif has been improving her skill-set since quite a few movies
but she was not up to the mark in a few scenes of the movie, while in
others she did just fine. Anushka Sharma plays Akira so full of life,
that you can't help but fall in love with her on screen. Cameo
appearances from Neetu and Rishi Kapoor are well thought out and
executed. Anupam Kher had a poorly developed role with little
involvement in the movie that his action cannot be critiqued.
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