Movie Review - Jai Ho

Koi script na apne paas hai, 

heroine bhi na koi khaas hai,

music pura bakwaas hai,

baaki sab first class hai.... kyonki sallu apne paas hai

Jai Ho is a film which is not very different from the salman khan films we have seen in the last few years. It’s totally about hero worship and one man and his fan following. In fact the movie should have been named The Incredible 'SALK'  (SALman Khan).

Boy our hero can do it all, he can fight, he can dance, he can romance and he can beat up not one, not ten but nearly hundred goons at a time. No, no, I’m not exaggerating. In one sequence he faces a hundred men and beats the first 4-5 so brutally that the others are scared and escape.

It's the story of Jai, an ex army man who was expelled for disobeying orders and is now strangely a car mechanic. A good hearted man, who along with his family and friends harbours the dream of making the world a better place to live in. He starts the mantra that if someone helps you don't say thanks, instead help 3 people in need and ask them to continue this human chain of good deeds.

Jai goes out of the way to help many people and touch many lives including a disabled student, a roadside beggar apart from his general acquaintances. As the sequence of events unfold, he involuntarily gets in a tangle with the home minister's family.

His sister Tabu and her neighbour Daisy Shah, who is also Jai's love interest try to keep him out of harm's way, but our hero knows no limitations and is always ready to give a good beating to wrong doers irresepective of the opposition. Indeed the number of goons is just a statistic for Jai who has no bars and beats the hell out of everybody baar baar.

A whole slew of actors who are out of work now will leave you wondering "ye bhi hai is film mein" as they roll in one after the other mostly for small and irrelevant parts.

Daisy shah is unimpressive even for her aesthetic value in the movie and she is not expected to have a long bollywood career.

Tabu, as we all know is a good actress and does justice to the role she's given. Salman ofcourse is impressive as the action hero and the final sequence sees his shirt being ripped off yet again to show us his well maintained body. 

The so called common man image is used as a disguise to show the action hero who alone can finish the home minister's family also.

The movie has the right message and could have been a good movie had some work gone into planning the script and dialogues. A lot of actors have also been wasted throughout the movie. It will still do 100 crore plus, but won't be threatening any box office records. The funniest movie in the film comes towards the end when sunil shetty takes the army tank out for a drive on the roads of Mumbai and shoots down a few villains with army arsenal.

Going with the theme of the movie, i'm supposed to help 3 people, and my review will help a few more survive this movie I hope. Watch only if you are a die hard Salman fan.

Rating - 2.5/5