JANNAT 2
Released: 04-05-2012
Rating: 2*
Genre: Bollywwod Crime Thriller Banner,Love Story
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Producer:Mahesh & Mukesh Bhatt
Star Cast:
Emraan Hashmi(Sonu Dilli),Esha Gupta(Debutant-Dr.Jhanvi Singh Tomar),Randeep Hooda(ACP-Pratap Raghuvanshi),Manish Chaudhary(Mangal Singh Tomar),Md.Zeeshan Ayyub(Balli),Sumit Nijhawan(Sarfaraz),Brijendra Kala(Daddha),Arif Zakaria(Head Police)
Jannat 2 Movie Review
Jannat 2 is a movie of a illegal gun dealer Sonu Dilli(Emraan Hashmi) who fells in love with Dr.Jhanvi Tomar(Esha Gupta) & turns to a informer of Police.Jannat 2 has nothing in common but the sequel shares a common climax.Esha Gupta,who had been compared with Angelina Jolie,as a debutant fails to make her presence noticeable by the audience.Movie is not that special but may get a successful opening because of its promotion.If we compare Jannat 2 with Jannat,majority of votes will be for Jannat.Its a low budget movie & will be unable to win Hearts on the whole.Rare may enjoy the movie but in parts.
Sonu visits a Doctor for dressing but Sonu falls in love with his first sight with a doctor, Jhanvi Tomar (Esha Gupta) he meets her many a times coincidently whenever police was chasing him & tells her the same but finally he manages to woo her,now he wants to leave the life of crime & settle down.Here,the question raises how a Doctor fells in a love with a street-smart hustler?Later,She accepts her wedding proposal & gets married.
Although helping ACP Pratap puts Sonu in jail for a little time, he continues to purvey the ACP with information about illegal arms racket as he has no other choice. ACP Pratap, who is hell bent upon finding who the leader of the arms racket is, persuades Sonu to continue being his informer by promising him protection and a good life afterwards.Sonu,unknown to his wife, joins a bigger gang of arms traders along with Balli.
Sonu’s world is shaken to the core when he realises, after his marriage to Jhanvi, that Jhanvi’s estranged father,Mangal Singh Tomar (Manish Choudhary), is the Kingpin of the arms business in Delhi.However,Sonu manages to convince Mangal that he is a corrupt and shrewd person who will be of use to his gang. Mangal embraces Sonu as his next in command.
ACP Pratap, who knows this, blackmails Sonu to give him information on upcoming arms deals, so that he can catch Mangal Singh red handed.ACP destroys a large consignment of weapons of Mangal Singh.Then Mangal decides to track out the traitor.While tracking,Balli sacrifices his life as a traitor in order to save his best friend Sonu.Sonu was now in deep grief after the incident,caught between the devil and the deep sea, starts playing a double game. He neither gives information to the ACP, nor tells Mangal the truth about him being a police informer. Secretly he plans to run away with Jhanvi, so that he can live a peaceful life with her.But Jhanvi comes to know about Sonu Dilli's truth.He explains her that he is working for ACP Pratap Raghuvanshi,but she refuses to belive him.He promises her that he will be back with ACP & reaches to ACP,where ACP kicks him tagging him as a coward.Sonu helps him for a last time with all the information of a big deal.Sonu comes to Mangal' Haunt where a big deal of arms was about to begin.Mangal receives a call from his Police informer(who was working in ACP's team) & comes to know about Sonu Dilli's character.He fires on Sonu but at the same time ACP with his team reaches there to save Sonu & the deal.In this action,Sonu was hit by bullets,ACP shifts him to a hospital where doctor tells him how serious sonu is,Sonu while taking his last breath asks ACP that he must not tell his truth to Jhanvi otherwise she will not be able to live her rest of life.ACP keeps his promise & defines Sonu Dilli as a arm dealer to Jhanvi & insist her to start a new life.Movie ends here.
Star Performances
Emraan Hashmi is first-rate as the glib and deceitful but endearing criminal.He has proved once again that he can make a negative character likeable.Randeep Hooda carries himself very well and delivers an excellent performance. Esha Gupta,was more or less alike to Lara Dutta was really disappointing as debutant,if we compare with other Debutant actress of recent times like Paoli Dam(Hate Story),Yaami Gautam(Vicky Donor).Her dialouge delivery,expression were not able to withstand.I will give her minus marks for her poor performance.Might she get another couple of movies in future but this time she is failed to make her presence noticeable.She was so far from being Sonal Chauhan as Zoya in Jannat.Manish Choudhary,as Mangal Singh Tomar,was good to watch in villainous role this time as compared to Blood Money.Zeeshan Ayyub,as Sonu’s friend Balli,leaves a mark again.He was a bit of eye catching.Sumeet Nijhawan,as the goon Sarfaraz,fills the bill. Brijendra Kala,as Daddha-ACP Pratap’s assistant,was marvelous.Arif Zakaria,Imran Zahid & others offered a good support.Kunal Deshmukh was okay with his direction but has certainly failed to deliver a complete entertaining package.Movie is boring in in its middle.
Watch or Not: Not Recommended,as it is not upto the expectation.
Verdict: At last i would like to add that Jannat 2 is not that entertaining.Movie does not delivers upto the expectation of the audience.Will not be appreciated.Its a Thumb Down to Jannat 2,as its disappoints a lot.
Well Kunal Deshmukh (director) we expected if not better, a movie of the same level as Jannat. But you fall too short. So short that we start feeling bored after interval as story refuses to move forward. I presumed that the movie would be loosely based on Nicolas Cage’s “Lord of War,” (a must watch) however the story in Jannat 2 is too underdeveloped to be made into a good movie.
ReplyDeleteJannat 1 was a class apart movie with a very strong script/ plot/ direction and off course songs. Jannat 1 showed the rise of a regular guy to maddening heights of Betting world with believable logic. Jannat 2 opens up well and we expect the hero to grow in a similar fashion but in “Illegal Arms Trade.” However, he gets confined to Delhi only as the movie becomes more of a cat-mouse game between police & mafia.
The surprise package in Jannat 2 is Randeep Hooda. He has done a really great job and is the other hero of the movie with almost same screen time. Esha Gupta is sweet but too model like.Emraan Hashmi is now almost repetitive with his performance but likable. The movie uses expletives freely like never before to throw in realism and not everybody is going to enjoy it.