Jab Tak Hai Jaan -review

Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Whistles echo in the theatre hall and enters Samar Anand(Shah Rukh Khan) in the picturesque opening credits' frame. Samar- a daring and excellent bomb diffuser-kick starts the movie adhering to the contemporary tradition of flashback. Jab tak hai jaan is the story about love and time, one of its dialogue describes it wonderfully,”har ishq ka ek samay hota hai”.

This last celluloid art work of Yash Chopra as expected treats the audience to some of the absolutely breathtaking locales of London and ladakh . Even the Yash Chopra patent ‘khets’ (fields) make appearance in the movie only now instead of them being from Punjab they here are in the form of wine orchards. The incredible cinematography rules the movie and what compliments it perfectly is the most amazing background score by A.R.Rehman . The fresh and good looking Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif with their amazing figures and great garbs only further add spice to the serene backgrounds. 

Jab Tak Hai Jaan in the first half is good, thanks to the unfolding of the story and beautiful introduction of the characters but it starts becoming a little stretched with songs appearing in close successions. But the real trouble starts in the second half where the movie becomes absolutely unbearable.  The movie holds unnecessary length as the pace of actions becomes similar to that of a turtle. The reason for this is the sheer weak storyline which from the point of its knowledge to the audience seems ridiculous.

The casting of the movie is appropriate given the fact that Katrina Kaif acts well for her part of a heavily religious daddy’s girl and Anushka Sharma a great job for her role of a super athletic, modern and courageous aspiring documentary maker. But we don’t get to see anything hugely different from either of the actors given their repetitive characters especially in the case of Anushka.

Shah Rukh Khan on his part seems to be blazing all guns, marking the tremendous modernity to his portrayal of his character with more than one subtle lip locks. He does a very good job in the acting department. The supporting characters don’t get much screen space in the movie due to King Khan and the two leading ladies but they display decent performance whenever they do appear on screen. 

Jab Tak Hai Jaan is an average movie due to its bad story. All in all there can be only two reasons why you have or are going to watch the movie-

1.       You are a King Khan fan or   2. You don’t want to miss Yash Chopra’s last beautiful romance story.