JANNAT
FIXED FOR ERR
by Vishal Verma

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What is it?
Women and cricket both need powerplay says the gambler who makes hay while the cricketers oblige. What a pitch to bat on says the lalchi cricketer and our fixer then offers some gullies and short cover after the match. Catch this if you can, this love story of a gambler is a mid summers nightmare you would love to forget for the best.

The movie is unique in its sense that it grips your senses right from the first reel and maintains its horrendous effort to give the audience an undesirable fix of boredom and torture.

First timer Kunal Deshmukh blows it to an irritating proposition what could have been an intriguing saga of a street smart gambler and his life.

The only saving grace in this incompetent flick is the music by Pritam and Kamran. some effort in acting shown by the serial the serial kisser Emran Hashmi though this time he is deprived of any lip locking and an impressive portrayal by Samir Kochhar as a cop.
Why every police officer is always shown munching burgers nowadays it hard to understand and so thus is the flick which is like a chewing gum. You go on chewing it and you get no taste out of this exercise.

After watching this ‘jannat’, my ‘Mannat’ (read wish) of setting up an institute for bollywood writers gets more bhakthi and devotion.

If you are still interested in the story then it’s about a street smart gambler ( Emran Hashmi – shows he can act). Who is caught in a quagmire of crime and consumerism as he struggles to find heaven on earth?

Arjun is a reckless young man with an obsession for making money at card games. A chance meeting with a girl in a mall, Zoya (Sonal Chauhan- so so) gives him the reasons he was looking for to move out of his ordinary life. He steps up from playing small-time card games to becoming a bookie.

Stuck in a triangle of sorts between the woman he loves and his addiction to make a quick buck, Arjun moves on from being a bookie to a runner for the mafia. He steps into the world of match fixing. Arjun switches on the limelight to bigger, better, faster, more, and by this time you feel like getting out from the auditorium for experiencing such a banal yore.

Wait wait, there is more to this torture, in an attempt to give the fixer another chance, his beloved helps the cop to get him arrested. The fixer comes out from the jail and finds his beloved doing an item number in Johannesburg. Burp Burp (has anyone digested this?).    The fixer then tries to live a normal life, but his obsession to gambling sees an unfortunate death of a firangi coach. (Trying the Bob Woolmer angle in this rectangle without length and breadth?). Cut this off. I need a smoke to come out from this dizzy haze of ‘boriyath’ titled ‘Jannat’.

Conclusion: This fix is at your own risk.

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