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Jazbaa
Critic reviews and ratings
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...a well-made film true to its genre. It has a message and it has a motive!
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Gupta, known to be sounder with technique than story-telling (many of his films have been foreign inspirations), has got it right this time.
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...if you can shock and awe the audience in the end, it's a win. And that is what makes Jazbaa a satisfying experience.
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If only Gupta had gone a little easy on the unnecessary and intrusive melodrama. Even then, it’s a good one time watch for sure.
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...a captivating thriller with good performances that make it a decent one-time watch.
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...is a film which thrives on style and Gupta knows how to present a thriller.
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...is never particularly pulsating despite being occasionally intriguing.
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...is not quite the re-entry to Bollywood Aishwarya's fans had been expecting. But she does do a largely good job of nailing her mother-in-distress act...
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Warped and not in a good way. After a decent start, completely warps logic and the associated human element.
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The movie loses momentum after the interval and the contradictions pile up as in a train wreck, but there is always a scorchingly lit corner in a never before-seen shade of yellow or green to gaze upon.
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..will entertain in bits and leave you bewildered at points.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is sincere, but needs a better director than Sanjay Gupta.
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Director Sanjay Gupta seems too focused in coloring his frames green to work on the tonality of the story.
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All the megawatt casting, stylish camerawork and blue-gray tints in the world cannot alter the fact that when it comes down to brass tacks and a scrutiny of the climax, Jazbaa is a hollow film.
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Frankly it delivers more than its awful trailer promised. But good luck protecting your eyes and ears from this sensory overload.
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The film saves a major twist for the end, but that is, if you can survive it till then.
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With a paper-thin plot about a kidnapped child, this movie is pretty directionless.
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...convoluted and over-plotted, as a whole. Sanjay Gupta’s ability to create menace and a sinister sense of place is overwhelmed by the film’s need to showcase the lead actor.
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...is all Dutch angles and green filters and slo-mo, an excess of stylization that calls attention to the absence of any real style.
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Archaic execution of a promising idea.
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Gupta has a stellar cast, but loses out on this advantage with his slipshod direction.
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It is a mercifully brief movie, just about two hours long, and goes by briskly enough, but that’s about it in terms of the good part.
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A cheesy thriller that struggles to find its target audience.
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