Part 1: Meri Jaan Ka Dushman
Statutory Warning:
Watching Jaani Dushman can lead to a severe brain ham rage and can also encourage neurotic and psychotic behavior patterns. Please consult your psychiatrist before taking up the bold step to watch this eternal masterpiece. In fact it is the perfect successor to Clerk, now you know what I mean.
(Ignorant people, who are unaware of Clerk, pls read my review on Clerk before reading ahead.)
(Geniuses, who have seen Clerk, welcome to the club. I am honored to bring to light another classic that has been underestimated and forgotten.)
Let us revive the magic once again….
Review:
Jaani Dushman is a delight for people who missed out on Terminator, Matrix, Robocop, Vampires, Frankenstein and many such sci-fi and horror Hollywood thrillers. You are very fortunate because there are legends like Rajkumar Kohli who feel it is their duty to keep people aligned with international movies and also updated on the latest technical innovations. Jaani Dushman is like a gujrati thali which will provide you with wholesome (can’t say healthy) entertainment with inputs from Steven Spielberg, James Cameron...name it man...you will get it...
I believe Twentieth Century Fox & Paramount pictures were also begging to buy the overseas movie rights. After all Jaani Dushman is a perfect tribute to not just Hollywood, but to the entire domain of creativity.
Rajkumar reworked on his past venture Nagin and borrowed the movie name from his very own movie by the same name. But what comes on screen is awesome and beyond words. It is not a movie, it is an experience. While watching it, you will know what all the prisoners in Tihar must be going through. Try to look at the social cause of the film. What intellectual filmmakers are not able to show on screen, Rajkumar Kohli actually makes you go through it, so that you can feel the pain yourself. As they say, there is no substitute for experience.
The story revolves or shall I say rotates around a male and female snake (Armaan Kohli & Manisha Koirala) commonly known as Icchhadaari Naag (can I say ‘choiceful snakes’?), who can take any form and shape they want to. Once when they are in human form romancing and floating around in the air, some human beings, I mean real human beings try raping the female snake and she gets killed in the process. The Nokia 6600 integrated in her eyes captures the wrong men…our poor heroes…12 of them. The male snake downloads the images and begins his fight for revenge. Then the entire movie is just about how he kills all of them one by one, I mean the heroes, not the audience.
Can you imagine Aditya Pancholi, Sunil Shetty, Sunny Deol and Akshay Kumar as college students? Your dreams come true with Jaani Dushman.
to be continued