Movie Review: Jazbaa

Movie Review: ‘Jazbaa’

Rating: 3/5

Director: Sanjay Gupta

Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi

Jazbaa is an action drama film which has been one of the most anticipated productions being tagged as Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s comeback after a five year break.

Aishwarya Rai plays the role of Anuradha Varma, a successful lawyer by profession and who fights cases for criminals and being an ambitious woman, she is guilt free of representing her clients until one day it backfires.  Her daughter gets kidnapped and as ransom the criminals demand she gets a rapist and murderer out of jail in four days. Yohan, a tainted cop played by Irrfan Khan is Anuradha’s best friend and helps her get the daughter back.

While the plot of the film is gripping, we can’t really give it much credit for being unique as director Sanjay Gupta has just remade a Korean movie titled Seven Days. While he has kept the essence of the story the same, making Jazbaa an edge of the seat thriller, he has taken the emotions a little overboard.

Scenes where we see Aishwarya cry for her daughter just don’t seem to end, making the melodrama a little too much to handle. While at one point we do enjoy Irrfan Khan’s dialogues, there are scenes where his dialogues would want to make you facepalm yourself. But all these flaws get easily overlapped by this edge of the seat thriller which doesn’t let go of your attention and interest even for seconds.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is made to seem like the star of the movie, while she has given her best and performed really well, barring some overacting scenes, she gets overtaken by others. Irrfan Khan stands out as the uber cool cop and his camaraderie with hyperactive Aish is quite commendable. Shabana Azmi too plays her role quite effortlessly while Chandhan could have done a better job. None the less, Irrfan and Shabana over take Aishwarya when it comes to performance in the movie.

The dialogues by Kamlesh Pandey and Robin Bhatt are the major highlight of the film. Though the music was average but background score lifts many scenes in the film. The film’s editing could have been neater but the cinematography is done fabulously. The story with its rubric moments of thrill makes up for an engaging entertainer.

Sanjay Gupta has managed to give an entertaining, gripping thriller to watch this weekend, with the stunning world beauty leading the story.