Genre: Drama/Action/Crime
Starring: Salman Khan, Tabu, Ashmit Patel, Danny Denzongpa, Nadira Babbar, Yash Tonk, Daisy Shah
I am strongly considering to add the word 'comedy' in the genre list for this movie. Salman Khan is that individual who has a penchant for thrilling audiences with his antics. Be it comedy, romance, action or even his dance numbers, they always seem to find takers. After giving a string of strong box office performers, Mr. Khan has decided to do an Aamir Khan with Jai Ho. It might just remind you of Satyamev Jayate on action-packed steroids. Jai Agnihotri (Khan) is an honest middle-class individual who stands up for what is right and crushes anyone that crosses the line with his bare fists. In a bid to change the world, he goes around spreading the message of love and peace and on one such occasion he sees an individual injuring a street girl. His temper gets the best of him and he makes mince meat of him. Here is where things get very interesting, Mr. 'I-just-got-beaten-up' goes to a local goon and gets him to misbehave with Jai's sister, Geeta (Tabu) and invites Jai to come and see if he has the guts to do anything. He does and he manages to beat up 10 guys in the restaurant and another 20 odd men inside a political party office. The goon goes to his superior goon who then gets 50 guys to beat Jai up and Jai does exactly the opposite. Superior goon goes to the boss of all goons, Dashrat Singh (Denzongpa), who is also the Home Minister, who finally decides it is time to start harming all the near and dear ones around Jai in the hope that he would calm down. In short, the moive is all about Salman Khan beating up a whole bunch of armed guys every now and then along with a love story thrown in just so that gives the director a reason to have some dance numbers. Take Dabangg and remove all the 'Pandeyji' antics, humour and charisma from it and what you would finally get is Jai Ho. Salman's previous movies were never award-winning, but at least his character found takers amongst his followers. Jai Ho seems to have drifted away from that by leaving Salman character-less and projecting him to be a man with a heart of gold. The movie is devoid of any story or any form of entertainment. The comedy that I was talking about earlier is the ridiculous bits that keep appearing every now and then that kind of make you go, 'What the F***!' Daisy Shah has an almost negligible role and her main focus seems to be only the dance numbers. Unlike Salman's earlier movies that had that one kick-ass song that every radio station played in and out and every person would dance on the floor on, this movie seems to have none. The only typically Salman song is the Gujarati one that too may not find many takers. All-in-all, this movie might just be the first Salman movie in a long time to not make the box office go crazy and misses all the elements that make his movie even slightly watchable.
Thumbs up: Not even 1 second of the movie is worth mentioning here
Thumbs down: Not a Salman movie, not even for the die-hard fan
Rating:3.4/10
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