by komal
Katrina Kaif deserves kudos for a job wonderfully done. Whether it is her scenes in conversation with God or her inhibitedness before she finally opens up or whether when she surrenders before God or when she re-enters Samar's life, Katrina is so totally immersed into her character that it would seem, she was born to play Meera in this film. Katrina looks drop-dead gorgeous and her sexy costumes are to die for.
by monica
Watching Katrina Kaif (Meera) was actually a surprising treat. With acting par excellence, it looked as it she was made to do this role. Needless to mention Katrina proved once again that she is Bollywood's best import till date
by martin
Katrina Kaif is fabulous. Her transformation from a rich girl trapped in a fancy world who gets to let her hair down is fantastic. She carries off the farce while exposing who she really is on the inside is very emotional.
by gaurav
Katrina Kaif is not only sexy and stunning but also comes across as a pleasant and convincing actress. She glides effortlessly through her character and scorches the screen with Shah Ruk
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan Review: Jab Tak Hai Jaan a Poetic Romantic Saga
Mumbai: Jab Tak Hai Jaan, the last directorial film of Yash Chopra released today, 13th November, 2012. The film as expected is a mixture of emotions, love and philosophy as is seen in the films of Yash Chopra. Yash Chopra is always considered the king of romance and with Jab Tak Hain Jaan, he completely does justice to his title.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan poetically depicts the romantic journey of Samar Anand, a musician. The film open with Samar trying to earn a livelihood in London and he suddenly meets Meera. Samar helps her to come out of all her anxieties and Samar falls in love with her. When the audience begin to get the feeling of a usual love story, Meera rejects the proposal of Samar and both are separated. Samar leaves for India. There he meets Akira whose personality impresses Samar.
Though the movieJab Tak Hai Jaan does sound like a love triangle, the treatment of the film is so fresh and mature that the audience won't see any melodrama in the situations. The lead actors, Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma look beautiful. As always in Yash Chopra's films, the film in shot in beautiful locations which are a treat to the eyes.
The dialogues of Jab Tak Hai Jaan have to be mentioned specially. The dialogues are casual and without any melodrama. These set the film apart from otherregular Bollywood romantic films.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan, the visual treat offers much more than the locations, actors and dialogues. The magic of A R Rahman's music and the background score adds to the beautiful narration of the movie. Shah Rukh Khan excels in his role as a lover boy in the first half of the movie and as an army officer in the latter part of the movie. Katrina Kaif who looks stunningly beautiful also gave a performance that will be remembered as one of the finest in her film career. Anushka as the bubbly girl also gets noticed for her performance. The characters of Katrina and Anushka are quiet contrast and both the actresses managed to deliver good performances.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan can be said as one of the best romantic film of this generation.The three year romantic saga is the best last movie of a greatest director. Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh also play important roles in the film. Anupam Kher plays the father of Katrina Kaif.
If there is one reason and one reason only to review Jab Tak Hai Jaan, it is this: by the time I finish penning this article, it will be the last time I ever get to review a film of legendary filmmaker Yash Chopra, a true citizen of the world and ultimate King of Romance. And of course, Mr. Chopra certainly left the world a masterpiece to enjoy in what is the perfect sign off to a career and life defined by love, romance, and an undying desire to entertain the masses. To be sure, the fact this is Mr. Chopra's last film is, thankfully, not the only reason to review Jab Tak Hai Jaan, which stars Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, and Anupam Kher. Indeed, Jab Tak Hai Jaan is signature Yash Chopra, a film full of epic romance and spicy masala that made us fall in love with Bollywood in the first place.
Now Jab Tak Hai Jaan may not sit well the younger audiences who seem to enjoy films that are the opposite of melodramatic. Scale back on the cheese and pass up on the hammed up love stories that never happen in real life, some critics will say. Then again, it would not be a Yash Chopra film without that crazy love triangle and two people from diametrically opposed worlds finding love. It is a formula that both defined a director and industry for decades.
Along the lines of his many great romances, Mr. Chopra'sJab Tak Hai Jaan is all about the couple destined for love irrespective of their circumstances. In this case, a high-class socialite falls in love with restaurant waiter. It seems to be the tales of Nora Roberts' novels and, well, Bollywood films. The plot defies all logic ' and in a Yash Chopra film, that does not matter. Mr. Chopra's films are always about making us believe love is truly blind and, when smitten by the bug, us humans pursue the immortal emotions found truly in our hearts irrespective of the mortal consequences.
As the film itself has promoted, if you have ever been in love, then you are certain to appreciate the love story that is Jab Tak Hai Jaan.
Complete with crisp dialog (what else is new when Aditya Chopra is involved) and a solid soundtrack (by none other than A.R. Rahman), Jab Tak Hai Jaan is a dashing love triangle of a man madly in love with someone but then falls fate to partial memory loss. Mr. Khan is dashing as the lead, delivering a role that is worthy of award consideration. Just the same, Ms. Kaif looks stunning and is quite charming as Meera. The attitude Ms. Sharma brings is reminiscent of her memorable role in Band Baaja Baaraat and is perfectly played out in Jab Tak Hai Jaan. A supporting cast of Mr. Kher, Neetu Singh, Rishi Kapoor, Sarika, Shaarib Hasmi, and others, are well cast and rather effective.
Beyond the solid cast, the film is well directed and beautifully shot. Despite its long running time and a plot that at times may seem far-fetched to the critical thinker, Jab Tak Hai Jaan is ultimately a throwback film to the days where one could get lost in their own thoughts about romances that could be. Such were tales that defined Bollywood. It was a definition given to the industry by none other than Yash Chopra himself, so it was only fitting he took a stroll down memory lane in his swan song.
Jab Tak Hai Jaanis everything that once made Bollywood so endearing to the world. If everything Yash Chopra ever did was forgotten, Jab Tak Hai Jaan reminds us of why we fell in love with him in the first place.
Reasons to like: Perfect for hopeless romantics, strong acting performances, vivid visuals
Jab Tak Hai Jaan - Not quite a would-be classic | |
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Film: Jab Tak Hai Jaan; Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif,Anushka Sharma; Directed by Yash Chopra; Rating: ****
Flawed but fabulous, the pasha of romance Yash Chopra's swan song -- may god rest his rhapsodic soul -- is a swoon-worthy ode to that achy-breaky feeling called love. Reams of poetry and volumes of prose have been writttn on it. But no poet no author has come close to unraveling the mystery of the heart.
Yash Chopra spent most of his adult years peering passionately into the heart. "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" (JTHJ) is not his best work. The last 35 minutes when Shah Rukh Khan loses his memory is best forgotten. Miraculously the entire end-piece of this fractured symphony co-written by Aditya Chopra and Devita Bhagat, doesn't take away from the sublime beauty of the work.
JTHJ is like an elaborate work of art that offers many different kinds of guilty pleasures for all those diehard fans of Yash Chopra's romance who grew up, grew wise and even grew old watching "Daag", "Silsila", "Chandni" and the doyen's best work, "Lamhe".
His latest and sadly his last work could keep you enthralled trying to play the game of spot-the-earlier-Yash-Chopra-referenced. You will catch "Daag" in the way Katrika Kaif returns into Shah Rukh Khan's fractured life. You can catch many shades of Karisma Kapoor from "Dil To Pagal Hai" in Anushka Sharma's girl-madly-in-unrequited-love act. You will see "Kabhi Kabhie" in the way Katrina comes to search for her fugitive mother (played by Neetu Singh, who had played the girl in search of mom in "Kabhi Kabhie") and you can spot "Silsila" in Katrina's scenes with Anushka in London.
Both the ladies are madly in love with the same man, much the way Sharmila Tagore and Raakhee loved Rajesh Khanna in Yash Chopra's "Daag". Indeed, there are perceptible shades of Rajesh Khanna's poetic romanticism from "Daag" in Shah Rukh's loner death-defying soldier's character.
Shah Rukh imbues the part of solider Samar with a great deal of heart. Never since Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Devdas" has he expressed the pain of lost love so eloquently. That his lady love happens to be Katrina Kaif helps us in sharing his pain. Yup, it's possible to fall hard in love with this tragic beauty of elaborate elegance and spend the rest of one's life pining for her.
Luckily fate and the scripwriters plan a happy ending for the soldier love story. But not before a sassy spunky bindaas photo-journalist Akira(Anushka Sharma) sweeps into the traumatized Samar's life. The Shah Rukh-Anushka sequences in the second-half shot in the stunning Ladakh and Kashmir valleys blends the war-time urgency of army life with a seminal spot of sunshine. It's a pleasing blend of the valorous and the romantic that turns the Shah Rukh-Anushka chemistry from "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" on its head. There he craved for her attention. Now it's her turn.
Comeuppance, anyone? Fate, as imagined in "JTHJ" is a flimsy mistress, hard to please and very high-maintenance. Katrina's Meera is a bit of a silly romantic masquerading as an in-charge woman entrepreneur.She makes ludicrous deals with god and pays heavily for her trade practices with an unequal partner (god). Meera is a woman of today captivated by outdated beliefs.
In some ways this exquisitely mounted work of art belongs to Katrina. She owns Meera's role in the way Sridevi and Raakhee owned "Chandni" and "Kabhi Kabhie", respectively. Shot in pristine colours by cinematographer Anil Mehta whose camera evidently loves Katrina's face as much as Samar, Katrina emerges as an actress who feels her character's pain in anguished close-ups.
Yup, Yash Chopra couldn't have chosen better. All the three protagonists seem assembly-built for their characters. And they are never short of support from every department of film's making.
It's the script that intermittently turns villain showering unexpected blows on the tender romance that the director so meticulously carves out of the lead pair's unflinching commitment to delineating the doomed dimensions of an ill-fated love that finally conquers even fate.
While we applaud the film's visual and emotional velocity Meera's dumb deals with god are plainly not the stuff great love stories are made of. And yet, we can't help cheer for the lovers when they finally embrace in strife-torn militant Kashmir. Devdas had it easier. His explosive mine-fields were only in his mind.
And he could've never imagined his Chandramukhi would ever be as persistent as Anushka Sharma.
"Kya karoon, ishq ho gaya hay tere se," she blurts out in a tragic confession of one-sided love. Ah, love! What a fall it causes even for the cynics. We don't quite fall in love with the film the way Akira falls for Samar. But we come close.
"JTHJ" is an ambrosial autumn sonata done in colours and moods that redefine Yash Chopra's legendary levels of aesthetics while sharpening and polishing the contours of his characteristic preoccupations. There is the elusive search for love and of course the unattainable beauty played by Katrina who miraculously manages to take her character beyond her porcelain features. When she dances in an underground London pub she forgets the world around her is watching. Then there is Shah Rukh Khan standing tall as a soldier who defuses bombs but can't seem to defuse the love catastrophe in his life.
"Jab Tak Hai Jaan" makes you fall in love with love all over again.
We will miss you, Yashji.
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2nd Day Worldwide Box Office Collections Of JAB TAK HAI JAAN | ||||||||||||
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Wednesday, 14th November 11:55 PM IST
JAB TAK HAI JAAN Runs To Capacity Despite Bigger Release On Day Two
"Jab tak Hai Jaan" has done well by crossing 15 cr nett on day one despite competition from SOS. Film was expected to do well on 2nd day and film has certainly performed. Film also opened with big numbers overseas.
After collecting 15 cr nett on Tuesday, film jumped by almost 50% and as per early estimates film should collect 22.5 cr nett. Film collected well in all centers where it did well yesterday and registered growth in single screens in CP Berar, East Punjab, CI, Bihar and UP.
Film has got repeat audience even on 2nd day and that is a good news for the film. Film has to register a strong Thursday especially in single screens in North where 'Bhaiya Dooj' will get it good family audience. Tomorrow will decide that whether film will touch 100 cr in 6 days or more.
Film also opened in overseas territories with a bang as always the case with Shahrukh Khan starrer. Despite limited release as film willopen in all markets by tomorrow, film garnered in excess of 7 cr nett. It looks a good 50-60 cr weekend there and that is more than the budget of the film.
Film is only lagging in East Punjab and Rajasthan now but worldwide filmis heading for a huge total and might become the biggest or 2nd biggest hit of the year 2012. After all collections do count be it overseas or domestic.
Below are the collections for the film -
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