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'Jaan-e-Mann' sweeps you off your feet
By Subhash K. Jha,

Film: "Jaan-e-Mann"; Cast: Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta and Anupam Kher; Director: Shirish Kunder; Rating: ** 1/2

After watching the vacuous synergy of "Don", here comes a film that sweeps you off your feet with its expansive vision of a world where true love triumphs even if it takes six songs, seven aptly choreographed dances (Farah Khan, take a bow) and five utterly heartwarming moments of drama -- woven into a tongue-in-cheek pastiche that collects all the clichés and conventions of the traditional filmy triangle into a clasp that salaams Broadway's truest and most vigorous musical tradition.

Initially, it's a little tough to get into the gorgeous groove and the flamboyant moves orchestrated by a director who has the courage to take on the clichés of cinema and turn them on their head.

The first 20 minutes are near disastrous, what with the dialogues with a devilish dwarf of an uncle (Anupam Kher) about the hero Suhaan's (Salman Khan) past brush with
love marriage and divorce going nowhere.

But then the narrative gathers momentum. And we're soon looking at lives that are defined and dressed-up in the best musical tradition.

Sadly, the music score isn't as supportive as it should've been. Much of the musical impact comes from Gulzar's tongue-in-cheek lyrics paying homage to that feeling of
lovelorn wistfulness and, of course, the central performances.

Akshay Kumar as the college nerd (look: courtesy the American serial "Friends"), who silently worships the student next-desk, is full of perky beans bubbling over in
sensitive motions that show how effortlessly he links with his character.

But it is Salman who propels this pungent tale of dramatic love forward. In a narrative saucily free of serious intentions, buoyed by devices that take sporting potshots at that sting-thing called love, Salman creates an endearing graph as a callous arrogant wannabe film star (check out his super starry tantrums in New York when an American director offers him the second lead), who turns into a sobbing mass of fatherly concerns in the second-half when he realises he has a baby from the wife whom he once deserted.

"Jaan-e-Mann" uses potboiler conventions to tell a story that takes Hindi cinema to a new narrative level. Characters cheekily tamper with time and space to the extent that
they appear to be no slave to either.

Musical outfits pop out of nowhere. A qawwali group emerges from a cupboard and celebrates the nerd Agastya's (Akshay) devotion to the beauty with brains; when the cool dude Suhaan realises he still loves the ex-wife whom he's been trying to thrust on the nerd (it's a complicated knick-knack of plotting devices) window panes shatter in computer-generated synchronicity.

Shirish Kunder uses a fascinating and energetic new form of storytelling that fuses the traditional Hindi-film triangle into the all-encompassing vision of Broadway musicals
where colours create a riot of over-the-top emotions.

Sadly, the format is inconsistent, veering vigorously from satire to homage.

And yet there's ample room in the lengthy narrative to bring out the emotional power of the plot. Indeed Salman cries (manfully) for almost the entire second-half without
getting whiny or tedious... No mean feat!

Akshay is full of chortling gaiety, enjoying every bit of his role as a wannabe Salman who realises devotion cannot be reciprocated by love. A sporting role, performed with
great empathy.

Preity Zinta remains controlled throughout. The single-mother role allows her no room to let go. And the narrative filled with singing lines that sublimate her woes allows her
no room for dramatics.

"Jaan-e-Mann" is great fun once you get into it. This is a world of eternally designed dreams. No one dies. Yes, all the characters get emotionally disturbed. But Kunder
never lets us forget this is a movie. Everything will come our right at the end.

Full marks to the debutant director for creating a delicately drawn world of wispy emotions. Cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee and art director Sabu Cyril do a great job of harnessing Kunder's Peter Pan vision into a spiral of whispering emotions that undulate softly, sometimes in counter-productive motions.

If only Kunder didn't get carried away with his novel format. A little bit of control in the space allotted and that tendency for the satire on cinematic conventions to willy-nilly
turn into a homage, and vice versa, would have gone a long way into holding Kunder's big Broadway-styled world of song, dance and redemption in place.

Review Jann-e-mann Music album

No great feat by Anu Malik in 'Jaan-e-mann' (MUSIC REVIEW)
By Zafri Mudasser Nofil, Indo-Asian News Service Rating: * 1 /2

Album: "Jaan-e-mann"; Music Director: Anu Malik; Lyrics: Gulzar; Music Label: T-Series;

The music world was waiting with eagerness for an Anu Malik score. But the veteran composer, waking up from his brief slumber, fails to impress in "Jaan-e-mann" despite having someone like Gulzar writing the lyrics.

The opening track "Humko maaloom hai" starts with Salman Khan narrating a couple of lines before Sonu Nigam and Sadhna Sargam take over. Malik uses a lot of instruments in this number. It is listen-able though not an extraordinary number.

One can see the use of instruments, specially the flute in the next number as well - "Ajnabi shehar", a soulful melody by Nigam.

"Udh jaana... bro!", a fast dance number is sung by Kunal Ganjawalla, Adnan Sami, Sunidhi Chauhan and Earl.

"Kubool kar le" is a boy-wooing-girl-type situational number sung by Udit Narayan, "Indian Idol" participants Rahul Vaidya, Amit Sana and Prajakta Shukre, Monali Thakur and Suzanne. Malik was a judge at "Indian Idol", a talent show.
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"Sau dard" is an average sad number with Nigam and Suzanne lending their voices.

"Jaane ke jaane na" by Nigam, Sukhwinder Singh and Krishna is a qawwali where Gulzar uses an occasional English word or two!

Malik misses a golden opportunity to silence his critics. He deviates from his usual melodious stuff - original or inspired - and tries to give an A.R. Rahman touch - orchestra, instruments and choruses - only to fail. Perhaps he really needs some "inspiration".

This album may interest only those who are die-hard Anu Malik fans .

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