IMDb RATING
3.7/10
3.5K
YOUR RATING
A crazy love story full of lies, deceits and a complicated quadrangle where each one has to think quickly and dance around each other's emotions.A crazy love story full of lies, deceits and a complicated quadrangle where each one has to think quickly and dance around each other's emotions.A crazy love story full of lies, deceits and a complicated quadrangle where each one has to think quickly and dance around each other's emotions.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Preity G Zinta
- Alvira Khan
- (as Preity Zinta)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe crew of this film kept running into the crew from Rush Hour 3 (2007). In one instance, while director Shaad Ali was shooting a sequence, a stunt car from Rush Hour 3 entered the camera's frame and the shot had to be retaken. Later, when Abhishek Bachchan and Lara Dutta were shooting the song 'Ticket To Hollywood' at Place de la Concorde, 'Jackie Chan' could not resist dropped by on the movie's sets to see the shooting. Jackie loved the song, and even though JBJ and Rush Hour 3 were being shot in same locations, the shooting units of the two films co-operated with each other.
- GoofsDuring the scene where Abhishek is telling the story of him and Lara he mentions that she is a Pakistani and he met her in 1997 around the time when Princess Diana was in Paris, France. This was fifty years after an Independant India and Pakistan were created. In one scene with him Lara he says to himself "She will take revenge for the past 60 years" So he jumped ten years ahead.
- Quotes
Rikki Thukral, Anaida Raza, Anaida Raza, Steve Singh: [singing] Jhoom barabar jhoom... Dance, baby, dance!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)
- SoundtracksJhoom Barabar Jhoom
Written by Gulzar (as Sampooran Singh Gulzar)
Composed by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa
Performed by Shankar Mahadevan, Sunidhi Chauhan and Zubeen Garg
Courtesy of Yash Raj Music
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Caught up in their own hype!!!
Yashraj Films know they have a set audience that will turn up and watch whatever they put in the cinemas. I've never known such loyalty towards a production house.
But JBJ will be a massive wake up call for all concerned. The film has its good moments and some worthy performances. But the overall product is nothing short of being a complete disaster. Fair enough the Director may have thought that he has come up with an ingenious idea, but sometimes certain ideas or thoughts are far better off staying within the confines of ones head, as they sound and look a lot better swirling around 'up there' than on a large screen.
The protagonists (Abhishek Bachchan and Priety Zinta) look unconvinced by their characters and the whole scenario. And despite Abhishek's best efforts, you almost end up hating both the main characters, purely because the film has bored you senseless by the time proceedings really begin. And by this I mean the introduction of the other two main characters (Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta) - this time in person rather than in the imaginary world of AB and PZ.
Bobby Deol does a very good job considering that he is offered very little in the way of screen time. He plays both his characters very well, in particular the mummy's boy. Lara Dutta is amazing and really puts Priety Zinta in the shade with her performance. Despite both BD and LD having peripheral parts in the film - they both, in my eyes, walk away with the honours as the most entertaining pair on screen.
Amitabh Bachchan is wasted and only appears every time they need to break the monotony of the main characters. He also appears in the dance competition to lend his support to a rather over long sequence.
Overall, JBJ offers very little in the way of a storyline. The treatment of the subject is what you expect of Yashraj films. But even they couldn't dress this weak subject up. DVD rental material at the most.
But JBJ will be a massive wake up call for all concerned. The film has its good moments and some worthy performances. But the overall product is nothing short of being a complete disaster. Fair enough the Director may have thought that he has come up with an ingenious idea, but sometimes certain ideas or thoughts are far better off staying within the confines of ones head, as they sound and look a lot better swirling around 'up there' than on a large screen.
The protagonists (Abhishek Bachchan and Priety Zinta) look unconvinced by their characters and the whole scenario. And despite Abhishek's best efforts, you almost end up hating both the main characters, purely because the film has bored you senseless by the time proceedings really begin. And by this I mean the introduction of the other two main characters (Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta) - this time in person rather than in the imaginary world of AB and PZ.
Bobby Deol does a very good job considering that he is offered very little in the way of screen time. He plays both his characters very well, in particular the mummy's boy. Lara Dutta is amazing and really puts Priety Zinta in the shade with her performance. Despite both BD and LD having peripheral parts in the film - they both, in my eyes, walk away with the honours as the most entertaining pair on screen.
Amitabh Bachchan is wasted and only appears every time they need to break the monotony of the main characters. He also appears in the dance competition to lend his support to a rather over long sequence.
Overall, JBJ offers very little in the way of a storyline. The treatment of the subject is what you expect of Yashraj films. But even they couldn't dress this weak subject up. DVD rental material at the most.
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- CriticRoshan
- Jun 17, 2007
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $695,157
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $455,257
- Jun 17, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $11,905,018
- Runtime2 hours 18 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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