#MOVIEREVIEW – #OK #Jaanu – (2016)

Today we are here with the review of the romance genre movie released this week i.e. OK Jaanu – 2016 starring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shradha Kapoor in the lead roles after their superb love chemistry in Aashiqui 2. The movie is a remake of Mani Ratnam’s Tamil Hit movie ‘OK Kanmani’ and directorial venture of Shaad Ali after his last disastrous venture ‘Kill Dil’.

PLOT:

Adi (Aditya Roy Kapur), a video game developer & Tara (Shraddha Kapoor), an architect first met rather encountered from distance when she was about to jump in front of a local train in Mumbai after fighting with her boyfriend. Few days later, both met again in a friend’s marriage and started to develop chemistry and within no time, they become more than just friends, in their words, JAANU.

Adi followed Tara on her official trip to Ahmedabad and they spend quality time together and after their return, Tara shifts to Adi’s rented room at retired High Court Justice G Shrivastava’s (Naseeruddin Shah) house. His wife Charu is a renowned classical singer and Alzheimer’s patient who often leaves the house on her own and loses her way.

Charu’s bond with her extremely caring husband, whom she calls Poplu, inspired the young lovebirds inspite of their unconditional relationship to respect each other’s privacy. But that does not happen in reality and they end up behaving like every other couple caring about each other thanks to the older couple living with them.

Six months pass like a dream and then comes the time to separate. Adi creates a video game called Mumbai 2.0, for which he has to move to Los Angeles and Tara gets admission to study architecture in Paris. What next???

ANALYSIS:

There is absolutely nothing new in movie and the story is so predictable. Bollywood has witnessed a number of movies with a similar theme when a couple with no commitment ends up with marriage.

But Naseer’s character is good. He is strict but affectionate person, who treats his tenants as his children and takes care of his ill wife singlehandedly, with no household help without any complaints. Chaaru, his wife is also very kind lady who unfortunately fails to remember people due to her disease.

Taara’s relationship with her mother depicts how children get affected when their parents part ways. All the characters in the film are nicely created. Adi and Tara fall in love a bit too fast. We wonder if people do fall in love that fast in reality!

There are some funny moments in the film too. The music of the movie is good but not the best.

What’s Good:

Aditya and Shraddha’s love chemistry. Naseeruddin Shah’s love and care for her ailing wife Leela Samson.

Uninteresting:

The music in the movie is not as great as original Tamil venture. Repetitive bollywood love story theme with nothing new.

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Star Peformance:-

Aditya’s performance as an actor is outstanding in the movie. He is a grown up actor for now.

Shraddha also puts up a good performance.

Naseeruddin Shah as always is love to watch and Leela Samson’s portrayal of An Alzheimer’s patient performs good enough.

Final words:

Ok Jaanu is a today’s generation love story with no commitments who are inspired by the love bond of oldies. Full entertainment movie nothing as such to come home.

My ratings for this movie is 2.2 out of 5 stars.

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