Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na marks the acting debut of Aamir Khan’s nephew Imraan Khan. Abbas Tyrewala of Munnabhai M.B.B.S and Main Hoon Na fame (as a writer) has scripted and directed this fun flick mainly targetted at the youth. This is also the first movie from Aamir Khan productions to not feature the superstar himself. But any product that Aamir lends his name to, is keenly anticipated and be rest assured, high on quality. Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na is no exception!
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na is about Jai Singh Rathore a.k.a Rats (Imraan Khan), a Rajput who doesnt believe in violence and Aditi Mahant a.k.a Meow (Genelia D’Souza), a cute and violent girl. Aditi feels Jai is a big coward and Jai says her parents should have rinsed her mouth with soap! They fight like crazy but just cant live without each other. They are almost a made for each other couple, their parents know this, friends know it, but they believe they are just great friends, no more, no less. Does friendship turn into love?
Jane Tu Ya Jane Na Review
Whatever Aamir Khan touches seems to be turning into gold. First Lagaan, then Taare Zameen Par and now Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, although not in the same league, is yet another classic from Aamir Khan productions. What works for Jaane Tu is the well etched characters, performed brilliantly by the actors. Its not just the main characters, but even the supporting characters that add a lot of value to Jaane Tu.
Director Abbas Tyrewala has executed the script with brilliance. The first half is almost flawless, a simple tale of friendship and love, that either makes you smile or laugh. The second half, could have been better.. it tends to drag a tad bit at times and gets predictable when Genelia is engaged. The writer should have opted for a different climax and made it slightly more believable. The dialogues are witty, hilarious at times and brilliant. The music by A.R. Rehman is perfect for the movie. “Pappu cant dance saala” and “Kabhi Kabhi” stand out.
Scenes that stand out in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
- Aditi’s parents and Jai’s discussion on the engagement. Funny!
- Aditi wonders how the 5 years passed by. “On the phone beta” says Jai’s mom.
- Scene between Amit and Aditi, his confession. Heart warming and brilliant!
- Aditi begins to realise her love for Jai only when Manjari Phadnis enters the scene. The jealousy, sadness and regret is executed and performed perfectly.
- When Amit takes Aditi into his room.
- Scenes between Jai’s mother and his dead father (he talks from a portrait). Hilarious!
- The chemistry between the gang of 6 friends.
- Honestly I didnt like the climax, but the performance by Genelia and Imraan, when surrounded by the cops, makes an impact.
I can just go on and on, great moments make a great movie and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na has simply fantastic moments in abundance.
Coming to the performances, Imraan Khan reminded me a lot of Aamir Khan, especially the mischievious grin. Imraan overall makes a solid debut, not once does he go over the top. A good restrained performance, this actor will surely go a long way. Genelia D’Souza’s expressions alone are worth the price of the ticket. She oozes cuteness and performs well. Manjari Phadnis looks good, acts well. Ratna Pathak Shah is superb as always. Paresh Rawal makes you laugh a couple of times. Naseeruddin Shah in a short role is just perfect. The director has managed to extract excellent performances from every other character actor.
Overall, Jaane Tu is immensely enjoyable and high on entertainment. If your looking for a movie on friendship and love, that makes you smile and laugh at times. Dont miss it! At the box-office, the lacklustre performance of Love Story 2050 along with good word out mouth should ensure a HIT status atleast!
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July 5th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Awesome Movie
would like to watch this movie again
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:07 am
awesum movie..a must watch film
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Aamir.. aamir hai! no doubt… a quality is afterall quality.. a new khan is born
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July 5th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Excellent movie u will surely enjoy whole 3 hours.
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July 5th, 2008 at 11:30 am
jus as i was expecting.. it was awesome.. wudn’t mind watchin a thousand times.. great job imran.
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
There is no questions this is Aamir’s Movie, blindly u can buy tickets
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July 5th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Jane tu.. Oh!! Awesome.. I do not mind to watch again and again.. Imran Khan.. Ohh.. He is brilliant actor.. Wow
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July 5th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
amzing movie. i just love these 2 fresh faces
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July 5th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Movie is flawless,Good direction acting …..i remember my college days……
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July 6th, 2008 at 10:46 am
great movie. like 2 watch any time.. Imraan and Genelia rocked in the film
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July 6th, 2008 at 10:58 am
This movie is meant for younger generation who would like to dwell in dreams of love, friendship & romance., which is far from reality. Majority of movie is about relationships between various characters. The star cast looks good except the lead character of Jaysingh Rathod played by Imran Khan. He is very stiff in majority of sequencies, reminded me of Pradeep kumar & Rajendra kumar of olden days. Aditi is sweet & lovable. The stand out performance is by the old theatrical maestro of real life couple Naseer & Ratna. They are brilliant in the movie. Direction is poor & full of flaws. We could not digest a pakka rajasthani character speaking urdu words too often. Music is based on rhythm & A R Rehman is poor in this movie. All in all the movie is boring for thinkers & booming for morons.
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July 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am
imran you look very hand some and dashing
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July 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Imran & Jenelia are suparstar of future & rocked in this movie
this movie is gr8.
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July 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am
The introduction of Jai and Aditi is just OK, could have been better, but the movie takes up very well afterwards.
The relationship of BEST FRIENDS when they look for their life is shown very realistically. The character elimination of Meghana & Sushanth is handles exceptionally well. Naseer Sir & Paresh rawall sir are at their BEST.
Overall, Full marks to Genelia for her expressions..
Kudos to Aamir..
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July 6th, 2008 at 11:28 am
OSM MOVIEI really wanna watch againimran khan’s acting is superb too
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July 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am
i dunno wat to say.. It just rocks!
Dont have words to express!
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July 6th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Not as good as it is written. All old fashion love intrest between best friends seen thousand times before.
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July 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Nice movie, previousely I don want to watch this movie, but my fren insist and we went , man its too good, Genelia D’Souza looks cute, i ll watch it again, great job Khans, D’Souza
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July 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
The movie overall is ahh…good…but for the first 25-30 minutes i felt this is not going good, i thnk many will feel the same, but it picks up which makes it a jus abt good movie…not worth watching twice or thrice in my book…performances Imran has done wel so have all the frnds of Jai in the movie
The movie has good humour, at times made me feel like thrs a caption saying “Laugh”
Jus another xperience i really liked the promo of “Rock on”
I would say u can watch it once…
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July 6th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
The movie really great,Rats done a great debut and Meow’s expression is worth the ticket money,she is really looking cute…..one most watch the movie times…i will watch it lots of times…..
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July 6th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
i loved this movie its superb mind blowing awesome i think each and every person should watch it.
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July 6th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
From nowon.. I’ll never rely on your reviews indicine.com or the review of any other websites. It was a bad, boring movie. The only good thing in the movie was 2 songs and introducing (Amit) Smita Patel’s son, he was an interesting guy in the movie. And.. what gold?! This time Aamir did a steel movie, not a gold!!
I can’t compare TZP & Lagaan with this movie which is below average, a poor movie. I’ts good for teenagers only, the script, the direction, nothing was interesting. The girl Aditi wasn’t bad and Emraan too, but they didn’t have a strong presence on screen only (Amit). And.. no one knows, might be Love Story 2050 a good movie, means vice versa. The movie which you praised is a bad one, and the movie which you gave one star, probably is a good one. I will decide after watching it next week as it’s not yet released in our country Bahrain.
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July 6th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
superb! mind blowing!! awesome! really fantastic alll the great words are for this movie i think this movie is more times nicer than love story2050.
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July 6th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
ahh. u guys are either lying or haven’t see n any other good movies … the movie is very boring ..and the jokes are not funny as they are made to be …the film loses its reality in the second half ….and u know whats going to happen in the end . Mera phela phela pyar is definetly much better .
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July 6th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Movie rocks big time……Imran Khan is a superstar dude….he is gonna go long way…just like aamir….he looks so natural in movie…..absolutely awesome man….genelia is looking damn cute….loved this movie wanna watch this over n over again….
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July 7th, 2008 at 12:11 am
this is the most boring movie ever seen in my life.. u gonna waste ur 3 hrs for sure.. acting is below average.. may imran read this msg of mine 2 him.. this was the last film of imraan i ever watched n wud in future..
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July 7th, 2008 at 1:23 am
In addition to my earlier comments, and for whoever watched the movie, didn’t u notice the following:
1) The group gathering at the airport and tell a story (in details) to their friend doesn’t happen in real life, but in Hindi movies only!!
2) No point for the following scenes :
a) A guy riding a horse in the desert
b) Naseerudin Shah is alive in the portrait. ( the wife wasn’t imagining, but saw him talking and moving!!)
c) Arbaaz & Suhail Khan’s apperance, no point at all
d) When a rocking music starts, while aditi is blowdrying her hair, make u think it’s a starting of an interesting song, then it stops, and the scene changes!!
e) The last airport scene, where the boy is after the girl, want to stop her get in the plane ( a repeated scene which we so 20 times in different indian movies).
So.. dear all, what’s so good about this movie?!! The comedy, only a few scenes where a bit funny and not (very) funny Om Shanti Om which I didn’t like much and got bored in the 1st half was a better movie than this one. I’ll rate it with one star only.
I hope that Aamir Khan’s Gajini would be a good one.
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July 7th, 2008 at 4:14 am
cool movie.. certainly its worth watching
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Fathiya, we have been reading your comments on almost every reviews of ours. So we owe you a explaination for being a regular reader.
First of all, as mentioned in the Love Story 2050 Review comment, Not all reviews can be universally accepted. Movies that are universally excepted like Taare Zameen Par, Jodha Akbar, Chak De India are very rare and there could probably be 2 or 3 (at max) such movies every year. Even those movies were criticized by a few!
Coming to those points mentioned by you.
1) Very few movies are absolutely realistic.. Cinema is great, because of the cinematic liberties that a filmmaker can take. Jaane Tu is a fun movie.. trying to find logic in every scene doesnt make sense for a movie of this genre.
2 a) A guy riding a horse in a desert, is Imraan’s dream in the movie. Dreams are wild and often unrealistic, dont you think?
2 b) Its a fun element in the movie, which was enjoyed by almost everyone in the theatre. In the 90s there was a serial called Hum Paanch which was extremely popular and one of the top most comedy serials those days. It had a similar concept, the movie was popular for the character who talks in the portrait. Again its a fun element, for the viewers to enjoy.
2 c) Arbaaz and Sohail’s track was unnecessary, i agree, especially the scene jail scene wasnt very impressive.
2 d) A song there would have just been unnecessary.
2 e) As i mentioned above in the review, i wasnt very impressed by the ending as the particular scene has been done to death in so many movies in the past. It should ideally have been different. But what we liked about it was the way it was performed by Imraan and the energy level of Genelia and also her expressions. Also the way the inspector was repeating their words was hilarious and bought the house down!
So whats good about the movie? The concept, its got a Dil Chahta Hai feel to it, but doesnt go too deep into relationships.. Its more fun, refreshing, like it is in those good old college / school days. Its a feel good entertainer. Also each character in the movie was absolutely perfect and you could easily releate to them.
All in all, the poll above says it all.. 879 off the total 996 who have voted, have loved the movie!
So we would like to believe, we have succeeded in giving out a good review that has been accepted by the majority :)
Thanks for your comments, we appreciate healthy criticism.
Thank you
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Great movie!! I enjoyed it a lot with my friends.
Thumbs Up to the Great Aamir Khan.
P.S - Watched movie after reading the review here thanks
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Indicine Team: Thanks for your reply, but no.. you can’t compare Dil Chahta hai with this movie. Dil Chahta hai was one of best indian romantic comedy which I saw and enjoyed every part of it, it’s one of my favourite movies which I still watch and watched it 5 times since the release date, it was a quality movie. Believe me if I say that I went to the theatre yesterday and was very enthusiastic and expected to see a good movie and enjoy it. When the movie started, and after 5 minutes only I had a feeling that I might be dissapointed, the movie doesn’t sound good as I’m expecting ( we can feel the good movie from the way it starts, can’t we?) as the direction is everything, the direction was poor with the cast of the movie. so.. I got bored, fallen a bit asleep ( this exactly happened to me while watching “Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic”
Dear Indicine Team:
Some people find some scenes very funny and some don’t. Jaane Tu, Hangama, Rang De Basanti, these movies millions of people found them very good but maybe I’m with some other audiences are exclusion!
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Dil Chahta Hai is a classic, agreed. Am not comparing the 2 movies. All that i am saying is, Jaane Tu has a DCH kinda feel to it.
Dil Chahta Hai is a bit more serious, as it involved 3 grown up friends and not a gang of friends from college (15 - 18 year olds)… it concentrated on all 3 lead characters, whereas Jaane Tu is more about Rats and Meow.
Jaane Tu has taken a lot of cinematic liberties, its a refreshing masala film which should not be taken very seriously. Just go there.. enjoy the performances, dialogues and the light moments..
Regarding RDB, its a flawless movie. Hungama was good mainly because of Paresh Rawal.. Jaane Tu will be a movie that will bag many Best Debut awards for Imraan Khan, will work big time at the box office and will be remembered few years down the line!
Fathiya, your entitled to your opinion, appreciate your comments.
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am
nice movie.. i really enjoyed it.. all d best for imraan and genelia.. i must say that all the actress and bollywood must watch genelia’s performence in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Hey everyone.. those who didnt watch it should go and watch it.. when u go to watch it u will feel that u have come for a roller coaster ride.. Its damn hilarious, even emotions are funny.. N Imraan.. He’s so handsome that i had an instant crush on him. I loved this aamir khan movie and could guarantee that this will bag all d awards just like TZP.. I am going to watch this movie again in a multiplex.. Just hope that the next Aamir khan productions n Imraan Khan Starring movie releases soon..
Keep making such excellent movies!!
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:12 am
excellent movie
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July 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
dint like it and dint find it amusing…thanks everybody:)
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
i thought it was fantabulous and u both were looking very nice together and genelia had acted very awsome
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July 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
wooooow….its a fantastic movie…….would love to watch it again.keep it up guys….all the best JAI AND ADITI…….!!!
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
it was juz fantastic ..bt i agree we juz cant compare dis with dil chahta hai..but it was funny n imran was too good n hes ssoooooooooooo cute
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
The movie was bang on! I guess movies like this are just for fun and expecting tragic realities of life or some absolute truths from such films would be a flaw as some are committing here. Want A light hearted movie to freshen up your life a bit ? Its one such brilliant piece of film and one of the best i’ve ever seen. Cant watch a flick without burnin too much brain sugar? Trust me! Only Serious cinema is your business. I dont believe in an autopsy . Just think i liked it a great deal. Casting is impeccable and dialogues are ok and really hilarious at times. The atmosphere is great. Music is good. Everybody acted nicely. Yes you’re right, movie has a DIL CHAHTA HAi feel to it and that could have been intensified by a good end and doing away with unnecessary humour where the movie missed out a bit in the later part . But nobody’s perfect and i aint let down.
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July 7th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Another Malayalam Movie is remaked as jaane tu ya jaane na.. this movie is the remake of Malayalam movie NIRAM(colours) 1998 .So my question is that “Whether bollywod movies are facing such a scarce for stories???
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
well , it is is the same love story that has been done a thousand times over. But the thing stands out is the direction and the acting. Well if you dont get bored with such a old story that is an exception and if u want to watch it again, u really cant comment.
Hands up, lovely movie, great direction and perfect acting. excellent!!!!!!
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July 8th, 2008 at 3:25 am
what superb… awesome.. excellent.. fantastic.. mind blowing..
Didn’t u guys/girls see any good movies in your life that you’re losing your mind and r crazy for this one? Strange people!!
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July 8th, 2008 at 3:47 am
absolutely boring and quite shit….. n absolute waste of time. i want my 2 hours back . u can’t expect this from aamir khan atleast. fake dialogues and aamir khan’s newphew can’t act at all. he must be banned frm doin any further movies:D
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:06 am
As we know aamir is Mr. perfect, he has done fantastic work through launching hi nephew in his production.
It is dream debut for imraan, because he has been launch by his Mamu. Imraan has done great work. Nobody can get without hard work and he has done..
Genelia is a beautiful girl and she is so cute.
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July 8th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
It is a great movie. After a long time i have seen a movie that is really entertainer.
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July 8th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
hardly seen a better 1 in dese times…simply fabulous…
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July 8th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
It is a wonderful movie. Actually, it’s an touchy movie as well as good entertainer. Jai and Meow performed brilliantly.
Such an excellent movie is needed to be watched again and again.
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July 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
The movie is quite good, as all the cast was new i enjoyed imran and ganela cute looks a lot. Hope it does good buissiness
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July 8th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Loved this movie was awesome. Perhaps I agree on this one with 9 out of 10 people who have watched this movie.And Fathiya you may shake your head again in disagreement but hey we live in a democratic world(I don’t know abt you though is Bahrain democratic??) so we have our personal opinions and don’t try to force other our opinion. So if you didn’t liked movie well and good but dont feel strange abt others liking the movie. By the way only strange one is you and few others who didnt like the movie(Grammatically maximum majority is not strange few exceptions can be classified as strange)
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