Jawaani Jaaneman Full Movie Details
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: Hindi
Director: Nitin Kakkar
Producer: Jackky Bhagnani, Vashu Bhagnani, Deepshika Deshmukh
Writer: Abbas Dalal
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 30, 2020
Runtime: 1h 59m
Production Co: Black Knight Films, Pooja Entertainment & Films, Northern Lights Films
Jawaani Jaaneman Full Movie Review
It’s good to see actors being their age on screen, rather, as in Jawaani Jaaneman, playing characters who don’t want to be their true age. This is what Jazz is all about, played with characteristic aplomb, swag and a casual, throwaway sense of humour by Saif Ali Khan.
Replace love with lust and Jazz is the philanderer that the once-romantic Sameer Mulchandani of Dil Chahta Hai might have become in his middle age. Drinking, clubbing, womanizing and getting his hair coloured is all he does when not making money in the real estate business.
Then one fine day, a hitherto-unknown daughter Tia (doe-eyed charmer Alaya Furniturewala plain-sailing fluently for a newcomer) comes calling and all hell breaks loose.
This familiar character which Khan has made his own (Ole ole, that song, pops up as a reminder of how long he’s been at it), is given something extra here: a ready-made daughter whom he didn’t know existed till she brings him down to earth with demands of a DNA test, locking him into reluctant paternity, and the potential softening of his edges.
No question of him blowing her off permanently: this is a Bollywood movie filled with the usual suspects – daddyji, mummyji (Jalal), bhaiyya (Mishra) and bhabhi, so clearly Jazz has no choice but to embrace his new-found papa-hood.
There’s a thread justifying Jazz’s broker-hood, involving cockney-accented property dealers, panoramic vistas of the Thames, and booze-swilling old ladies unwilling to budge from their Hounslow apartments, which acts as buffer between the real deal.
The growing awareness of the importance of ‘family values’ in a man who equates marriage with ‘death’’
Is this the movie’s way of bringing Jazz back into the family fold (bad boy turning into a responsible, nappy-changing man), or is this the character’s arc in the original source material? (Apparently, Jawaani is a remake of a Western rom-com, which is perhaps why it feels like a Holly-Bolly movie, in the way the characters speak). The post-interval whiff of moralizing finger-wagging makes Jawaani dip, as well as the many too-convenient dispatching of potentially thorny problems.
There are contrivances here which don’t all ring true. There’s also a scene with racist overtones: in a movie which is trying to strike a non-judgemental gong for babies out of wedlock, it is off-putting.
Till the film focuses on Jazz and his pursuit of hedonism, it is fun. Jazz is fun. Saif Ali Khan who seems to have pulled himself out of a slump, is clearly having a blast, flaunting buffed tattooed biceps, and bunging Punjabi-isms into his patter: when asked who else lives in his apartment, his ‘main or mera swag’ makes us smile.
His partner-in-crime, Chunky Panday’s nightclub-owner, is fun too (until he’s given a drippy scene to help Jazz mend his ways). Kubbra Sait’s crack hair-dresser Rhea, Jazz’s 2 am friend, is trope-y (just like all BFFs whose shoulder is meant to be leaned on), but she fills her part with real feeling. Mishra and Jalal fit right in too.
The film is highly entertaining in the first half when the narrative is light and breezy. The pace drops in the second half as it meanders towards predictable and slightly preachy parts.
Especially, for single men who want to fly solo all their life. But in the end, 'Jawaani Jaaneman' comes out a winner with its non-judgmental approach and a contemporary story that showcases complex human relationships with all its quirks, firmly in place.
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