Movie review of Jhankaar Beats starring Rahul Bose, Sanjay Suri, Rinkie Khanna, Juhi Chawla, Riya Sen, Shayan Munshi

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Jhankaar Beats

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Credits
Producer/s:	Rangita Pritish Nandy
Director:	Sujoy Ghosh
Cast:	Rahul Bose, Sanjay Suri, Rinkie Khanna, Juhi Chawla, Riya Sen, Shayan Munshi, Ikraa Khatri, Manmauji, Goolistan Gandhi, Raja Vaid, Sangeeta Chauhan, Dinyar Contractor, Archana Puran Singh, Vijendra Ghatge, Shashikala and Parmeet Sethi
Music:	Vishal & Shekhar
Lyrics:	Vishal Dadlani

From masala flicks to polished movies, Bollywood has definitely come of age now. Every other Hindi movie is, that’s why, meant for a certain class of audience. Sujoy Ghosh’s Jhankaar Beats is another such movie that simply tries to lure the youth audience.

Like Dil Chahta Hai, this one is also about three friends and their lives at both personal and professional ends. Rishi (Rahul Bose) is passing through a bad patch in his marriage life. His wife Nicki (Rinkie Khanna) has just separated and Rishi is almost unaffected by it. His close buddy Deep (Sanjay Suri), on the other hand, is living happily with his wife Shanti (Juhi Chawla) and the daughter Muskaan (Ikraa Khatri). Both guys are working together in an ad agency in the day and keep rehearsing to win a musical trophy called Jhankaar Beats in the night.

Soon, they are joined by their boss Mr. Kapoor’s (Vijendra Ghatge) son Neel (Shayan Munshi). Neel has crush for a girl called Priti (Riya Sen) but has no courage to speak to her and confess love. Like Deep and Rishi, he too is mad after music and plays guitar. While the story moves on taking up issues like reunion of Rishi and Nicki, Neel’s triumph in love and the trio’s winning the coveted musical trophy, several small things come and go to entertain viewers.

There’s nothing great about this movie if you judge it by its narrative. But the director has handled it so well that one will not feel bored almost till the end. The most beautiful thing is that even small characters and situations are dealt with care. Be it Mr. Kapoor’s dealing with work and his two employees, Mrs. Pinto’s screaming every time after her tea is spoiled because of Rishi’s car’s irritating horn, Mr. nose digger alias Mr. Roy’s small but humorous track, Ms. Voluptuous (Archana Puran Singh) and her mime character, everything in this movie is worked out imaginatively.

Jhankaar Beats has few really good scenes. Like, the one where Deep stops to tighten his shoe lace and Rishi is beaten by a woman, the church sequence where Neel tries to propose Priti and fails and then a song, ‘Tu aashiqui hai’, the introduction scene of Mr. Roy and others are worth mentioning in this reference. Even the scenes of Vijay and Neha (Raja Vaid and Sangeeta Chauhan) are interesting.

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