For the first time I believe that Bhatts have casted Emraan in a perfect tailor made role, as a bookie. Jannat is a film starring Emraan Hashmi and model turned actress Sonal Chauhan. Emraan Hashmis plays Arjun and Sonal Chauhans as Zoya. Emraan Hashmi’s friend in the film is Samir Kochhar( Vishal).
Both the friends Arjun and Vishal are small time gamblers. They bet their money on playing cards. But both don’t win much and are in debts. The money they have borrowed from Patel bhai( A small Don in the film) is demanded by him from both Arjun and Vishal. Hence for paying debts, Arjun plays a betting on a Cricket match he sees on the TV between India and England. He wins quite a lot from that betting and pays all his debts. Then he starts playing bets on cricket matches and wins quite a lot of money from this betting. He first meets his girlfriend in a Shopping Mall. He impresses his girlfriend Zoya by Buying her expensive gifts and buying a car to pickup and drop her from her workplace.
Then 2 men come to him and kidnap him and carry him to South Africa. There he meets a Bigger don who says he has listened a lot about him and wants him to work for him. Arjun agrees to work for the Don. Then he starts betting for the Don and wins him a lot of money and alongside he also becomes very rich. He invites his girlfriend to South Africa. To which his girlfriend agrees and he keeps her in a spanking new house.
But, a CBI inspector from India informs Zoya about Arjun and tells her that he is involved in Anti-Social activities like Kidnap, murder and Drugs.
Then Zoya tells everything about this meeting to Arjun and gets a promise from him that from now on he will not involve himself in any anti social activities. Arjun agrees to this.
Then, He starts living a honorable life and works for a bar as a bartender. But, The Don approaches him and tells him to again start betting for the matches. Later, things turn worse for the couple.
Music which has always been a strong point of movies from Bhatt camp is really top class once again which donest stop the flow but carry on with the film like Gangster. Zasa si is the best of the lot.
This can be said as Emraan’s comeback after the indifferent last yr with slew of flops to his credit. He excells with his acting & is really very comfortable with the role. Newcomer Sonal Chauhan looks good & she does pretty alright.
But the film becomes patchy on more than few occasions else with cricket as backdrop & a new concept of betting & match fixing we could have had a pulsating edge of the seat thriller. But Kunal Deskmukh(director) chooses to concentrate more on love rather than the excitement of betting.
Alas! End of day we just have an avg movie.
My Ratings:- 3.25/5
SOMEWHAT RECOMMENDED.
Cheers!
Gurpreet