Jannat - To Each His Own
20th June 2008 | posted in External Reviews, Hindi Movies, meetu |Looks like youre new here. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Meetu’s Review: Jannat - An engrossing watch which raises some philosophical questions. A story well told but yet doesn’t warrant a trip to the theaters.
Rating: Wait for video release
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Here is what 22 other reviewers/viewers think. Average rating 1.8 / 5.0: 3 thumbs up, 10 so-so, 9 thumbs down.
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| Aparajita Ghosh, Apun Ka Choice …After a while the story seems to go in circles. On top of it you don?t strongly relate to the emotional turmoil of the lead characters…. See full review |
Fatema H Kagalwala, Business of Cinema …The film, although well executed, follows the production house formula of a controversial story stir-fried with two scoops love saut?ed in five scoops emotion and garnished with five scoops drama…. See full review |
| Abhishek Bandekar, Buzz18 …Sonal Chauhan is a known model. She has done some popular commercials and falls in line with all the rest of the models who simply cannot act to save their lives…. See full review |
Yasser Usmaan, DearCinema …same old honesty versus money confrontation… See full review |
| Deep, Deep’s Home …Very good music, very good cinematography but what was bad then? The story.. it was very poor, execution was pretty bad too, specially the climax… See full review |
Shubhra Gupta, Express India …Jannat has been engineered for the scruffy charms of its leading man, and the rows of youngsters on Friday’s first show didn’t seem to want more… See full review |
| Martin D’souza, Glamsham.com …But this is one film where I’m willing to overlook the flaws and view the film in its entirety… See full review |
Khalid Mohamed, Hindustan Times …Kiss spotters are likely to be disappointed too. The closest you get to the Hashmieseque lip-a-loola is a smooch in silhouette. Tsk… See full review |
| Taran Adarsh, IndiaFM …You can’t imagine JANNAT without Emraan Hashmi. Right from his debut film FOOTHPATH to JANNAT, the actor has only grown with the passage of time…. See full review |
Savio Zacharia, Indiaglitz …The second half too has nothing much to offer with the cops and bad guys enveloping poor Emraan and his love story…. See full review |
| Gaurav Malani, indiatimes … The love story in Jannat resorts to the archaic templates of the 80s while the backdrop theme of match-fixing on which the film is formulated is least exploited in its screenplay…. See full review |
Indicine …Jannat is slow paced throughout and therefore tends to get a little boring to sit through… See full review |
| Intermission, The Bookeazy Blog …The audience were laughing when she tells Emraan that she loves him…. See full review |
Damini Berry, merinews …Emraan Hashmi, handsome as usual, looks just the same and acts just the same as in his previous movie… See full review |
| Movie Talkies …Their courtship consists only of sequences showing Arjun taking Zoya out on dates, feeding her and buying her gifts. There is hardly any romance here…. See full review |
Vijay, MovieWalah …What’s missing is the under developed and seemingly forced Bob Woolmer’s mysterious murder in the narration… See full review |
| Subhash K Jha, Now Running.com …”Jannat” lacks the resonance and staying power of some of Bhatt’s earlier films… See full review |
Siddharth Pillai, Passion for Cinema …Imagine my surprise when I, in my full senses, started to enjoy the movie. It happened somewhere in mid to late first half…..?Jannat? ends up as a mediocrity…. See full review |
| Hanumant Bhansali, Radio Sargam …Sonal Chauhan is good looking and needs some more movies to prove her potential…. See full review |
Raja Sen, Rediff …it coasts along smoothly without really boring you… See full review |
| Sonia Chopra, Sify Movies …The quality of dialogue (Sanjay Masoom, The Train, Krrish) is inconsistent… See full review |
Kavita Ogale, Times Now …nfused with a love story at its core, Jannat is as much about a lover as much as it is about his greed to make big bucks through unscrupulous ways…. See full review |