Jaane Jaan Movie Review: Jaideep x Kareena = X factor

Jaane JaanOn NetflixDir Sujoy GhoshCast Jaideep Ahlawat Kareena Kapoor KhanRating 35Jaane Jaan is an official adaptation of Japanese Keigo Higashinorsquos book The Devotion of Suspect X Which is Essentially the daddy of Jeethu Josephrsquos Malayalam Drishyam 2013 thereafter remade in Hindi the rights of which have been further sold for a Korean version completing a circle of sortsThe point of the suspense being A protagonist perfectly hiding a murder committed as accident or in sheer selfdefence Would it be easier to confess the crime to the police and face trial since the deceased was such a suspect character himself Oh no whatrsquos the fun in that And who wants to face the vagaries of law in any caseMuch better to hide and hope to move on But that requires some intelligence isnrsquot it In this film that lsquoshaatirrsquosharp brain belongs to an old maths teacher with an unmatched attention to detail Only hersquos helping his female neighbour get away Are they together or even friends No This is just out of unimaginable unconditional loveHence as an audience you follow the male lead first He spouts arithmetic equations to answer lifersquos questions One of them being if A B and B C then A B C Which is odd because if A B C then they would not be different variables All of them would simply be A noBut letrsquos not get too much into these things including that childhood puzzle about five birds on a tree If you shoot one down how many are left None the others will fly away obvioYoursquore drawn to this maths teacher mainly because of his eyes and bodylanguage so selfeffacing and halfdead that he appears halfblind and wholly vulnerable Yet he displays the look of someone so sorted you know he will somehow protect you if yoursquore under his care You feel that most when he half hugs his neighbour the murdererActor Jaideep Ahlawat plays this part Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan is opposite him This pairing itself is the best proof of how this is the golden age for actorsmdashhence directors who have such a wide choice to cast fromKapoor in particular has been extremely choosy throughout her career over who shersquoll star withmdashAyushmann Khurrana for instance was reportedly not good enough for her during the casting process of Udta Punjab 2016 This makes Ahlawat a legit star of OTT already This is Kapoorrsquos digital debutItrsquos equally remarkable how she solidly underplays herself to suit the quieter medium This character has an unknown past chiefly as professional stripperpoledancer although I havenrsquot met one such in my life in India so far Vijay Varma another hero of sorts in his own right is the devoted cop investigating the murderAnd yet donrsquot miss that deadbody in the sense of the performer who gets killed Thatrsquos Saurabh Sachdeva who we last saw only the same week as this film singularly killing it as the dignified don Haji in the series Bambai Meri Jaan Amazon Prime Video He just so naturally gives out the druggie vibe itrsquod be amazing if hersquos a teetotaller vegan in actual lifeCanrsquot go wrong with actors so on the ball can you The script itself has been doing the rounds with several directors in Bombay for so long that for some reason even I had a copy of it lying around at home oncemdashgifted to me to randomly read for fun That Sujoy Ghosh was the filmmaker finally picked for this film is thanks to Kahaani 2012 and Badla 2019 Both movies equally in the mysterythriller space with a female protagonistGhosh does well to set Jaane Jaan in the serene hills of North Bengal somewhat bearing the look and feel of Aranyak Netflix that was set in Himachal Pradesh if Irsquom not mistaken and was similarly the rsquo90s star Raveena Tandonrsquos OTT debutSo between three alluring characters and a murder to hide where do you go from here Not too far really There isnrsquot much suspense since you know the leads will get away with murder whatrsquos the point otherwise How You stay for the punctuations and the processThis is the kind of high engagement low risk lower return genre that you click on a streamermdashknowing that like a breezy sitcom you will be suitably entertained And you are What was my unrelated takeaway from the pic a call to action as it were Really wanna visit Gompu Bar amp Restaurant in Kalimpong

Jaane Jaan Movie Review: Jaideep x Kareena = X factor

Jaane Jaan
On: Netflix
Dir: Sujoy Ghosh
Cast: Jaideep Ahlawat, Kareena Kapoor Khan
Rating: 3/5

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Jaane Jaan Movie Review: Jaideep x Kareena = X factor

Jaane JaanOn: NetflixDir: Sujoy GhoshCast: Jaideep Ahlawat, Kareena Kapoor KhanRating: 3/5

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Jaane Jaan
On: Netflix
Dir: Sujoy Ghosh
Cast: Jaideep Ahlawat, Kareena Kapoor Khan
Rating: 3/5