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Aamir Productions Pvt Ltd adds another feather to
its cap with JTJN. With an illustrious past such as
Taare Zameen par and Lagaan from this banner, if you
are looking for a novel storyline, you are in for a
surprise. The surprise here is the fact that this
easy, breezy entertainer is the same old story at
its core, and yet grabs you
with meticulous direction by writer-director Abbas
Tyrewala and a brilliant casting by Pakhi. A.R.
Rahman’s catchy and young tunes blend perfectly with
the tone of the movie itself. “Kabhi Kabhi Aditi”
and “Pappu can’t dance” are topping charts and
winning hearts. The new Khan on the block, Imran
Khan and Genelia D’souza, the leading pair carry the
movie with ease and finesse with the supporting crew
Karan Makhija, Alishka Varde, Pratiek Babbar, Ratna
Pathak, Manjari Fadnis, Ayaz Khan, Sugandha Garg,
Nirav Mehta, Renuka Kunzru, Anuradha Patel, Jayant
Kriplani rendering a thumbs up job.
The movie begins at an airport with a group of
friends narrating Jai and Aditi’s journey of
friendship and love, laughter and tears to a
newcomer to the group, a bored Mala. Jai Singh
Rathore( ‘Rats’) Rajput by birth, but a hard core
non violence follower leads a moderate lifestyle
with his mother who ran away from her in laws’
family after her husband’s death caused as a result
of his violent behavior. Jai’s father (Naseruddin
Shah) taunts his mother through a picture on the
wall and haunts Jai’s dreams. Aditi Mahant (‘Meow’)
the wild and passionate heroine is from a well to do
family and lives with her parents and an artistic,
eccentric brother Amit, played by late Smita Patil’s
son Prateik Babbar. ‘Rotlu’ pines away for Meow and
‘Boms’ craves for Jai’s attention which often seems
to be reserved for Aditi only. ‘Shaheen’ and ‘Jiggy’
complete the circle of friends. As opposite as their
characters are, turns out Jai and Aditi were meant
to be. Everyone including their parents and friends
know this, except for the two. They decide to set up
each other with other partners only to realize
through a filmy climax complete with a horseback
ride to the airport that they were in fact made for
each other. Watch out for Sohail and Arbaaz Khan in
their cowboy act, quite comical!
There are some moments in the movie that are so
natural, you forget you are watching a scene from a
movie, but rather living it. Be it fights between
Amit and Meow or Amit and Jai or Jai and Meow, or
the heartbreak of Rotlu and Boms, they simply live
the characters. The girl set up by Meow for Jai
Meghna always lives in an alternate world imagining
things differently than they are. The movie
beautifully portrays the reason, her inability to
accept the faulty marriage of her own parents.
It is not so much the story or the clichéd climax,
but rather the refreshing script, tight direction
and seamless performances by the actors that grips
this movie. It helps that the music is hip and
happening too! Jaane Tu is a well blended mixture of
all things that make good, clean cinema. Watch it
with your family; you won’t be embarrassed at any
point, just entertained and maybe transported to
those nostalgic college days…
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