Jazbaa

Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi, Chandan Roy Sanyal(Niyaz), Jackie Shroff, Atul Kulkarni(Prosecution Lawyer), Siddhanth Kapoor(Sam), Priya Banerjee(Sia), Sara Arjun (Anuradha's Daughter) and Abhimanyu Singh(Abbas)
Director: Sanjay Gupta
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama



This a season for Bollywood thrillers, dont miss it! :)




You may look forward to:

• Aishwarya Rai picks an apt story for her comeback. Unlike many heroines who do not make a successful career once taken a break for motherhood, Aishwarya proves it that the right script chosen keeping in mind the time lapsed, can work cordially for you. She performs good, slight over acting from one scene to another, most of it she pulls it off with aplomb. Cheers!
• Irrfan Khan is slowly graduating to a lady killer :) Very catchy dialogues, delivered impeccably cool, though you may catch certain dialogues came from the jokes some or other time you may have received on your phone as a forward :D Nonetheless, Irrfan Khan gives out a rocking performance back to back from 'Talvar' to 'Jazbaa'
• Shabana Azmi has an incredible role in this film, very unlikely of the roles you will expect out of her. She is playing a serious, no non sense role and holds a pot of surprises for you, difficult to predict
• Sanjay Gupta does a pretty good job in engaging all the lead characters very aptly and yet keeping Aishwarya as the center of the focus. He gives out a thriller worth enjoying and looking out for!
• Rest of the starcast viz.; Chandan Roy Sanyal, Siddhanth Kapoor, Priya Banerjee, Sara Arjun and Abhimanyu Singh have very petite roles, but they do good in their respective positions

What you can sleep over:

• Jackie Shroff and Atul Kulkarni, did not get their due in this film. Very short and not so precise roles at the backdrop of the story centering Aishwarya
• This film bears similarities in the story with 'Talvar' which is so fresh in the memory in this week. Nature of investigation is different but a completely different outlook to an apparent open and shut case of murder, in its second half, has a direct connection with the way 'Talvar' was presented
• One item song by 'Badshaah' in the film is already doing rounds, rest of the numbers were not required, felt very forced

The dampeners you should be aware of:

One particular scene which sort of defies logic in an otherwise carefully written story is the part where 'Anuradha' wins the case for 'Niyaaz', based upon the confession of 'Sam' in the court. Does a court accept confessions from someone who is mentally unstable? I wonder! This was a very major scene and i was a little disappointed at the conclusion of an otherwise intelligent criminal case in the film





My Rating: 3.5/5

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