Jaane Tu …. Ya Jaane Na..........................When do you know........ its love?

Cast: Imran Khan,Genelia D’souza, Alishka Varde, Nirav Mehta, Suganda Garg,, Karan Makhija, Manjari, Ayaz Khan, Pratiek Babbar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel, Jayant Kriplani, Renuka Kunzru,

Director, Story, Lyrics: Abbas Tyrewala
Music: A.R. Rahman
Producers: Aamir Khan & Mansoor Khan

Genre: Teen Romance; family viewing possible.
Official Website: http://www.jaanetu.com/
Rating: ***1/2
Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed

The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. Minor details may have been divulged for proper review!


Every few years Bollywood releases a Teen Romance with new faces, fresh and innocent characters, and simplistic storyline but presented differently. Qaymat se Qayamat tak, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander, Kuch kuch hota hai, and such fall in this slot. Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na is another such fresh performance. Jaane Tu though is not on par with QSQT or Kuch Kuch.. but some times good timing( interval of few years between such romance’s) works!

This movie is about adopted pet names Rats (Jai Rathore –Imran Khan) Meow (Aditi- Genelia D’souza),Jiggy(Jignesh-Nirav Mehta) Rotlu/whiner( Ravidran- Karan Makhija) Bombs( Sandhya-Alishka Varde), Shaleen(Suganda Garg) and fun parties and college; friendships and relationships; Love and romance, and confusion in understanding what it is!

The movie’s novelty was in building depth in some characters and detailing on relationships and bonding. It makes earnest effort to show special connections in relationships of friends, relationships of siblings, and parents with kids. The spontaneity in acting; very casual and jovial dialogues (“phone pe beta, phone pe…” a response to how the past 5 years in college went by!); happy, simplistic and realist characters with clean story for a change, make it a comfortable watch.


The movie also had some inadequacies. The not so strong story, filled with a lot of clichés and filmy style situations, looses its grip in the middle of the movie. Luckily for some freshness sake the audience accepts the glitches and enjoys the fun ride.

Imran shows a lot of polish and maturity in his debut performance and his spontaneity and looks remind you of Aamir, but he lacks Aamir’s QSQT cute looks. Genelia is lively and very expressive and natural performer. The gang of friends- all new faces handle their characters well, though a balding teenager is odd! Ratna Pathak Shah and Pratiek Babbar (smita patil’s son ) have excellent performances. Naseeruddin shah talking in portrait has a hilarious act.


The music by A.R. Rahman has two songs which stand out-“Kabhi Kabhi Aditi” with a melodious new playback singer Rashid Ali, and “Papu can’t Dance Sala!”

U, ME aur Hum - Strength of Love!

Direction: Ajay Devgan
Cast: Kajol, Ajay Devgan, Divya Dutta, Sumeet Raghavan, Karan Khanna,Isha Sharvani, Sachin Khedekar
Genre: drama
Rating: ***
website:http://umeaurhum.erosentertainment.com/

The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. Minor details may have been divulged for proper review!

Where are all the great writers in Bollywood cinema! These days almost all Bollywood movies being made are inspired or copies of Hollywood movies. This movie U, ME aur HUM is also another inspiration from a Hollywood movie, The Notebook.

U, ME aur HUM is a story of Love, the courting, the waiting, the wedding and promises of love and commitment in a marriage! Besides, the backbone of the story is based on Alzheimer’s

Devgan’s directorial debut has lot of inconsistencies vs. credits. The movie contrasts different relationships in love, and out of love and validates strength in love, for stronger and longer relationship! The story is poorly developed and not tight, straying and digressing with out any pattern; even the main roles lack depth and are not developed enough for us to connect with the character; also the director’s preference to have a larger screen presence may have upset the balance in the movie!


The first part of the movie tries your patience with cheesy romance overdose, silly jokes, poetic clichés, and boring dialogues. Just about when you lose interest and attention in the movie, the second half tries to be more gripping with interesting sequences and absorbing moments and emotional drama.

The movie has some interesting topics of discussion, commitments and promises made in a marriage, selfishness of human being, priorities in life, values of love and Alzheimer’s.


Ajay Devgan’s attempt to play the romantic hero falls short. He is better off at action hero or angry hero roles. He does ok, and comes out very well in the somber moments in the movie. Playing a romantic man whose vocabulary revolves around “You know what I am trying to say?” or “You know something,…” he doesn’t have the capacity to enthrall the audience with romantic charm, which is a disadvantage for a romantic movie! The charming Kajol is always the romantic. Spinning dreams, having lofty ideals, passionate about dancing, reading and writing, she tries her best to captivate, but her under- developed role doesn’t help create her magic! It’s unfortunate her talents seem underutilized in the movie.

The movie has the content and capacity to be better then what it turned out to be!

The music is ok, nothing extraordinary. The song “sehli jaisa saiyan” may have been Kajol’s whimsy about hers and Ajay’s real life relationship!!