Even before I was ten minutes into this movie, I knew it was going to be a long (read bad) one. As a part of my job, I had to stick it out till the very end. But let me tell you what others were doing during the filming. First and foremost there were a handful of couples who were least bothered about the proceedings in the movie. Then I spotted a guy who was reading a newspaper with the help of the light from his phone in the pitch dark theatre, as the movie failed to interest him.

Now if you still want to know what Jai Verru is all about, here goes: Veeru (Kunal Khemu) is a small time thief who becomes best friends with undercover cop Jai (Fardeen Khan). Obviously he doesn’t know about Jai’s true identity. Veeru is working for dangerous don Tejpal Yadav (Arbaaz Khan). While on a holiday, he falls in love with Divya (Anjana Sukhani) He tries to set up Jai with him, so that his friend can also make some extra cash. Jai, the cop, along with his superior, Ranbir Singh (Govind Namdeo), grabs this opportunity to arrest Yadav but the plan goes awfully wrong. Veeru shoots Jai by mistake and runs away to Bangkok. Jai recovers and wants nothing more than killing than Veeru. He also finds a romantic partner in his nurse, Anna (Dia Mirza). He then goes about getting revenge as a cop and acquiring Yadav's little black book of contacts.

So is it worth a dekko?

For starters, these movies went out with the nineties. The dialogues are silly and forgettable. Anjana Sukhani should stop acting because she can’t. Her entry has her emerging from the sea to send the hero’s heart into a tizzy. Hasn’t she seen how slim Kareena Kapoor., Esha Deol and Bipasha Basu, even Neha Dhupia have looked in similar scenes? Anjana has bulges and nothing about her is eye popping. We don’t know what Kunal Khemu liked about her.

The action has a very Dhoom 1 and 2 feel to it. So there is nothing new there. Some scenes have been flicked from M: I 2. Even the background score is jarring and ‘inspired’ from Hollywood action flicks. The other songs are alright. The song between Fardeen and Dia was totally unnecessary. Why did the producer waste so much money on it, I wonder.

Kunal Khemu isn’t hero material but he has decent acting skills and comic timing. Fardeen Khan should learn something from him. I guess his Hindi isn’t very good so most of his dialogues are in English. Arbaaz Khan can’t act and is unconvincing as the dangerous Don. Dia Mirza looks pretty and does action sequences well.

Jai Veeru is just a waste of time. Please stay away.


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