Jannat

Bhatts are always known for their story telling and music (ZEHER, MURDER, GANGSTER, AWARAPAN). Though they seem to knock the doors saying their movie is all about reality but fact is they have never presented full 100% with reality but the characters are always inspired. Jannat is no different.
Good music with good songs , wonderfull locales and a refreshingly new story with a love story in the backdrop makes Jannat a watchable fair. The real problem with Jannat is the screenplay and editing, at times you feel that movie is getting dragged a lot. There are few scenes which are really well shot and leaves with shell shocked but point is, its previous scene and the next coming scene makes even a good scene as a dull affair.
Story is about a Arjun played by Imran Hashmi,initially who gambles with the cricket mathes later he turns out to be a bookie who gets into acts of fixing players and matches . His love life is Zoya played by Sonal Chauhan who wants Arjun to lead a honest life. Imran Hasmi is real soul of the movie which makes the movie to have a constant pace. Debutant Sonal does not stand out in acting department but as all heroines do , she is one more feather in bollywood fraternity who can do skin show and off course love scenes on bed.
Jawed Sheikh is brilliant. This is his finest work so far. Samir Kochar as police inspector is excellent. Vishal Malhotra, plays friend of Imran has done a good job.
Jannat's real saviour is Mr.Pritam ,he once again proves his abilty to come out with good copied music. People raise question about the originality of Pritam's music, but they should understand the fact that copying music and making chartbusters is not that easy. Every single track is good in the movie .
Debutant director Kunal Deshmukh who already worked as an assitant director in tne Bhatt camp has done a fair job , though he could have done much much better , neverthless we can really look out for his forth coming movies.
First half of the movie is pretty slow and pre interval scene is pretty good and pace of the movie picks up in the second half once the story revolves in South Africa. Too much involvement of heroine and the love plot hampers the plot of the movie but we can surely give a try to Jannat.

My Rating : ***