Jaan-E-Mann: Let's Fall in Love... Again

I was waiting to see another movie at my local theater and as I waited the sound from this movie attracted me. I stuck my head in for a minute and said...WOW! Forget the other movie that I came to see, this one had me from the beginning. To sum it it, its my first Hindi Movie, and after this one I know there will be more to see!! Being that I am MexicanI recommended this film to all of my friends. I especially enjoyed the way the film was set, I had never heard of these actors in my life but I did my research and was surprised that there are a lot of movies out there that have this wonderful cast involved. I am a new fan of these films!

Director Sirish Kunder has made a commendable debut in Hindi cinema as a director. This editor-turned-director has made an impressive attempt to make Jaan-è-mann what it is. Superb editing, exotic locales and a heart warming love story. I had never imagined that special effects could be of such an imperative to a romantic love story. This movie delivers the best in technicality. Scene transitions are superb, dream sequences, going into and out of flashback has its own style and the film is full of jolly and merry instances. But all that does not make a movie great if it lacks its soul, the screenplay. Sirish Kunder, in his first screen writing attempt, has clearly shown his incompetence and inexperience.

Kunder, though has filled the film with lots of one-liners, pretty catchy dialouges and an amazing score, technically the script has pitfalls. Lack of adequate character conflicts, the trait of the film gone missing somewhere and, and most importantly, a novice screenwriter makes the movie lose its charm. Jaan-è-mann could be a thoroughly entertaining if we set the screen writing rules aside, but beyond that, if you're planning to watch a movie by experienced professionals, this one is definitely not your cup of tea.

Lets look at various aspects one by one:

Salman Khan - Good performance. Thank god he's given up laughing like hyena. We see veteran in this movie. A sad an miserable shade of his character makes home in public's heart.

Preity Zinta - After KANK, she's my ultimate favourite. This angelic beauty looks great throughout and she's still watchable as a college girl. And my God, she does great Russian accent.

Akshay Kumar - I like the way he laughs, he..hee..heee. Akshay has come a long way into romantic comedy from action movies and he's good at it. He's in fact good in any character he gets into.

Anupam Kher - This one actor knows the heights of performance, although he plays a person without, um.. much height.

Anu Malik - The track "Humko Maloom" is great. Fabulous. But not all songs are ones we can say "are really great." Worked late night and wrapped up in a haste?

Gulzar - Is he trying to be different or did the producers ask him to do so? Why does he need to use so many English words in songs? I feel bad calling a veteran bad but he fails to live up to the expectations.

Farah Khan - Great. At least this is the best she can give to her newlywed husband Sirish Kunder. She's put her heart and soul into it making choreography one of the strongest aspects of this movie.

Sirish Kunder - Editing - superb! Space sequence - superb! Visual transitions - superb! Should definitely go ahead and make more movies. But before that, I urge him to buy the book "Screenwriting" by Syd Field and read it once.

Apart from this, the production design is laudable. The baby who plays Preity Zinta's daughter is really sweet. Enormous curtains hanging down from the roof look exhilarating. New York, as always is breathtaking. What's even good is the actors' chemistry and the way the entire movie has been set up.

If you're finding it hard to choose between Don and Jaan-è-mann, my choice would definitely be Jaan-è-mann. It's a value for money but not yet the film I can call the best film of the year.

This movie is another extension of series of movie made or to be made in bollywood on love triangle. The story line is old but successful.what i like about the movie is the treatment of the roles and its usefulness in the story. Firtstly i must congrats sallu miya for his another outstanding role in this movie .the role may shut the mouth of his critics who believe he is not actor.In nutshell he has justified the role as a rock star, as a die-hard lover and benevolent human being. his partner akshay though Short in role has done his job and made the movie Worth watching Priety Zinta not very attracting may her age has coming to her role as young lady she is good at dialog delivery,good at acting and overall justify the role Anupam Kher a legend in acting is amazing this movie is a work of romance go for it its good bye vinod

This is a story that grows into a story which makes you want to know what happens next as next scene is generated from the former but also portrayed as present.

Shrish did a great job with this new innovation that it excelled. The music was fabulous and it follows in sequence according to the next picture..

The Introduction was OK with Akshay and the blondie chatting introductingly about the next character (Suhaan) to be shown.

I wouldn't say the movie was slow-paced from the beginning but rather would accept all the introductory aspect which shows you the theme of the film. The film went through all phases of emotions: from hilarious, to seriousness to sadness and pity and at the end joy...its amazing!

The clause of it is just that the second part where the climax appeared was more peaked than the first part, but otherwise the scenes were shown in succession linking to the next without breaking.

The way the three of the stars portrayed their character was good although not so much was given to 'Preity', but she excelled in the few she did and she really looked beautiful. Lots of chemistry between the stars. It was great..

Akshay was really good, he amazed me with his character that depicts a good actor in every sense; and his chemistry with Salman is just too bonding..

Anupam didn't have much to his credit, although he played his character well.

Now Salman. He was the brilliance in this film. He was the one string that pulled the emotions in this film to the surface, all with his diversity..

Even before the climax, as he was mentoring Agastya on how to woo Piya, you begin to pity his helplessness that turned him into a conman. And then you want know how its going to end, you want to know who gets the girl afterwards and everything Suhaan's been through irrespective of being Piya's ex-.

The climax is so moving and Salman really drove home the message that you cant help but have a tear in your eyes; His character shows someone who is on the verge of losing what he most wanted but didn't know how to stop it. He was awesome!-

The song 'sau dard hein' was too much to handle with the emotion going on with it and Salman did great justice to it, all the other songs were great too but this particular one superceeds the rest (my opininon).

Overall the movie is worth a watch again after the first watch..

Those who feel its not worthy, should watch it with unguarded heart- and feel what i am talking about, because it is a realistic story that can happen to anybody with feelings(Erase the comic aspect of it and see through the real occurrences)...

THis movie is a movie that everybody should watch..it is fresh and appealing..it may be a bit dragging at times..but all in all it is a novel concept movie which will appeal to allot of people..

Preity Zinta is fantastic, she breaths fresh air in her role.. Akshay Kumar really surprises you as the geek, he just adds a new dimension of being the funny guy.. And Salman....this guy just took my breath away..I never saw the guy in this kind of role..you can see that he has worked hard on it..when I saw him crying..I knew that this time he was completely serious..

Anumap Kher is funny as the midget

Music is good, Story is novel.

Worth every penny

10/10