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Jaane Jaan Movie Review: Kareena Kapoor, Vijay Varma Jaideep Ahlawat's 'Mathematical' Moody Thriller Is A Winner
Updated Sep 23, 2023, 11:47 IST
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The discovery of a horrifically mutilated body in Kalimpong sets into motion a psychological thriller. The identity of the murderer is not hidden in Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Jaane Jaan’, based on Japanese author Keigo Higashino’s globally-popular novel ‘The Devotion Of Suspect X’. The high point of the book was the cat-and-mouse game between a detective and a prime suspect: you go into the movie, a near-faithful adaptation but with some twists, hoping for the same level of smart engagement.
The three chief characters the film revolves around are single mother Maya ( Kareena Kapoor Khan) and her teenage daughter, her neighbour, the shy, retiring, brilliant maths reacher Naren (Jaideep Ahlawat), and the sharp-as-a-tack Mumbai detective Karan (Vijay Varma) who is working the case of the dead man. What led the victim to a seedy hotel in this hill town? What is his connection to Maya, who owns a modest cafe, and who doesn’t seem to have much of a life of her own? Will Karan ever get to the bottom of this mystery: the needle of suspicion points to Maya, but none of the evidence supports the case. Just what is going on?
Watch | The trailer of Jaane Jaan featuring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Vijay Varma and Jaideep Ahlawat
The setting is effective, as is the first act, when we are introduced to these disparate characters. With her unmade-up, unvarnished face, Kareena reinforces our belief that there’s a great deal to her that we haven’t discovered yet. But her presence in the film works both as plus and minus: her being the clearly bigger star, in fact the only star, skews the dynamics of the tale. The plot privileges her, as does the camera, and it becomes a case of a dressed-down star showing off her acting cred. In Kareena’s case, there really was no need for this: we’ve already seen how she lifts films — think ‘Chameli’, ‘Talaash’ and ‘Angrezi Medium’, among others. Here, both Ahlawat and Varma, and their characters, are in service to her persona. And this weakens the film, making it drab; at just over two hours, you feel both the contrivances and the stretch.
Higashino’s ‘Suspect X’ has already had a bunch of highly-successful Indian iterations in ‘Drishyam’ (Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi). What I was looking for in Ghosh’s ‘official’ adaptation was that feeling of tension that runs through texts that excavate human darkness: can anyone pick up a hard object and bash someone’s skull in? What does it take for an ordinary person to watch flesh burn?
There’s a scene in which Kareena Kapoor Khan shows just how a bona fide star can light up the screen, in which her Plain Jane character segues neatly into her glamorous Bollywood avatar. That glow, in that karaoke scene, when she croons the title song ‘aaa jaaane jaaan’, is blinding. But placing the spotlight on her (Khan in her first OTT movie!) makes the men dull. Both the spry Varma, who floats about trying to figure his next steps, and Ahlawat, who is absolutely terrific as a man who yearn s for the unattainable , are equals when in the same frame; in the company of Kapoor Khan, they are left to adore.
Jaane Jaan movie cast: Kareena Kapoor Khan, Jaideep Ahlawat, Vijay Varma, Saurabh Sachdeva Jaane Jaan movie director : Sujoy Ghosh Jaane Jaan movie rating: 2 stars
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Dhaval Roy, TNN, Sep 21, 2023, 12.30 PM IST Critic's Rating: 3.0/5. Jaane Jaan story: The crime drama follows the story of a single mother and her daughter, who find themselves entangled in a ...
Directed by Sujoy Ghosh, Jaane Jaan is a crime thriller based on the novel The Devotion of Suspect X, written by Keigo Higashino. The film revolves around a single mother (Maya) and her teenage daughter, whose lives turn upside down as they try to hide a vile secret that only gets worse with each passing day.
Maya was once Soniya, wife to Ajit (Saurabh Sachdeva), an abusive, money-grubbing cop. She had left him 14 years ago and moved to Kalimpong, a misty hill station in northern West Bengal. She’s ...
Jaane Jaan also stars Vijay Varma and Jaideep Ahlawat in the main roles and narrates a simple tale of murder in a small town. The movie has a runtime of 139 minutes and follows the story of Maya D’Souza, a single mother who is raising her daughter Tara in the small town of Kalimpong, West Bengal. After a visitor from her past shows up in her life and threatens to hinder her peace and safety ...
Meanwhile, on the work front, she is currently awaiting her OTT film, 'Jaane Jaan'. Directed by Sujoy Ghosh, the film also stars Vijay Varma and Jaideep Ahlawat in lead roles.
The discovery of a horrifically mutilated body in Kalimpong sets into motion a psychological thriller. The identity of the murderer is not hidden in Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Jaane Jaan’, based on Japanese author Keigo Higashino’s globally-popular novel ‘The Devotion Of Suspect X’. The high point of the book was the cat-and-mouse game between a detective and a prime suspect: you go into the ...
Jaane Jaan broke the record for the biggest opening weekend viewership for an Indian film on Netflix. [12] It was the highest-ranking Indian film on Netflix's engagement report for the second half of 2023, with over 20 million views, [13] and emerged as the most-viewed Indian film on Netflix in terms of global viewing hours. [14]