What kind of a movie did Feroz try to make this time ?
With dads trying to hard to relaunch their son’s careers , everyone thinks they will churn out a KMG.
Was it the same man who made Jaanbaaz, Qurbaani and similar movies ?
Jaanasheen lacked the Feroz Khan touch and looked more similar to Prem aggan (another disaster with beta Fardeen)
Story
Father Harsh Chayya loves Beta a lot, sends him to Autralia with wife for the latter’s treatment.
Son and father later emotionally separate and there is an Afghani villian to make matters worse between them.
Childhood sweetheart Celina gets back her love and father dies, villian dies and these two tie a knot.
Beta’s old Teacher also happily marries a cute monkey in the same mandap (the monkey was the cutest part)
Now my dissection
Every well made movie has scenes, starting from start to finish which has strong relevance to the theme of the movie.
eg If Amar Akbar Anthony showed young Vinod Khanna hiding a pistol, then it was because years later, he would dig it from the mud and father Pran would see him doing it and identify him.
If Pran and Dev Anand did boxing as children in Johnny Mera naam, it was to show them do the same thing years later and remember their old days.
Jaanasheen started with scenes that had absolutely no relevance to the story.
- What was the need to show a violin recording session with a drunk guy who picks up fight with Harsh Chaya ?
He dies soon after that and also smashes bottle on Celina’s face, and huh..she is blind ?
That drunk man had no connections whatsoever to the rest of the story.
- This half-blind thing of Celina was just to generate publicity, it was never shown in the film. I was expecting her to witness Harsh’s murder at the crime spot and later have problems to identify the villian due to her eye-sight..lol !!.. but
nothing of that sort was shown.
- Harsh and his son shared a very sketchy relationship. They had so much love at the beginning of the movie and the way Aunt martha and Fardeen hate him later, it quite artificial.
He is shown to be very nice father who even cares for Celina and comes every year to Australia to patch up with his son.
Why was he ill treated then ?
- Now the remorse part - Celina never feels sad after her brother dies, as much as she cries after separating from Fardeen. Her brother stayed in remand home for her sake and did so much for her.
But She never seems to miss him all that much.
Same for Fardeen- He never realizes how much his father cared for him or loved him, also never feels anguished after his dad’s death. Immediately after his india visit, he is happily shown drinking beer with Johnny Lever and doing mock fights with him.
- Now the most cliched part -Bachpan ka pyaar
Who the hell remembers whom you kissed as a child or brought
roses for, when you were about 8 or 10 ? More so , when you never meet that person for many years.
How come all children in movies remember the ’’bachpan ki dosti, bachpan ka pyaar’’ factor so strongly and grow up loving the same person ?
I also had kiddo boy friends in second standard and we exchanged pencils and rubbers. I didnt even remember their faces nor any incidents connected to them once I went to high-school... Sigh !!!
- Fardeen hates Celina all the time, once he grows big- he suddenly comes to India and they abruptly break into ’’mujhe pyaar hone laga hai song’’ ?
Was it true love for Celina or love for her clothes or the lack of it ?
- And kashmira Shah, my god ...what was that creature all about in the film ? Half woman, half devil ?
Her costumes, behaviour, character were simply inhuman.
- The first motor bike race was ok. but All talks about the second one was not needed at all. I almost thought the climax will have a nail biting motor race like how they show in Jo Jeeta or Lagaan.
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The only good part was the character of Saba Karim Shah.
Feroz khan was good as the Afghani villian with some hidden goodness. His interaction with the male protagonist was interesting and different unlike other movies.
Celina Jaitley fails to amuse as a performer. She is in the league of Neha Dhupias, Aditi Govtrikars and Bipashas.
Just skin show and no acting skills, not to mention her excess makeup in every frame.
Fardeen was good in Pyaar tune kya kiya and Kuch tum kaho, Kuch hum kahen (anyone remembers the latter ?).
But he was very stiff and devoid of any emotions in Janasheen.
Music score is also very average by Channi Singh . I liked his music in Yalgaar and expected some really foot tapping numbers. But most numbers are sound similar and some are misfit in the movie.
Over all a hyped, confused movie with no plot.