Jabardasth Movie Rating by telugucinema: 2.5 / 5

Venkat_Ganta · February 22, 2013

What's it about!

Running away from his creditors, Byrraju (Siddharth) lands in a marriage hall. We are told that he failed in all his business ventures and landed in Hyderabad to settle in clandestinely. He eavesdrops in the conversation of Shreya (Samantha) with her friend and learns her plans of getting job at city's leading wedding planner. He goes to the wedding planner first and tells all the ideas he heard from Shreya to the planner and clinches the job. Shreya comes to know that Byrraju overheard her conversation with her friend and confronts him. They soon become friends and start floating their own business of an event management company. She soon falls in love with him but he has other ideas. Rest of the drama is the usual lovers' journey that ends on a happy note.

Analysis

Director Nandini Reddy shot to fame with her maiden film, Ala Modalaindi, a romantic drama, which was fairly a fresh take on romance. It won appreciation and also was a box-office hit. In her second film, Jabardasth, she copied basic plot from the Anuska Sharma and Ranvir starrer Bollywood hit, Band Baaja Baaraat (2010) and created her own concoction. This brew has turned out to be pretty bland. What we miss here is that ingenuity that she showed in her first film.

We regularly see films that are copied from other movies blatantly, so we should not mull over that aspect much but the problem with Jabardasth is that the director has tried to give her own 'version' to the line of Band Baaja Baaraat, which ends up as neither here nor there.

Moreover, the romantic scenes of Siddharth and Samantha are poorly executed; the characters are even more poorly etched except the Nithya's con woman character. The lead pair fall in love hurriedly, they separate after a song, and realize their mistake in the end in a hurry. Their love is superficial. Their romantic track is one-dimensional. There is no emotional depth.

Yes, there are couple of entertainment scenes but the laughs are by force. Although second half is better than the first part of the movie, which is not a saving grace. Best parts of the movie are the portions involved with Nithya Menen.

Performances

Nitya Menen in her brief 10-15 minutes role makes more impact than the lead pair of the movie. Her mischievous acting style smile brings the energy to the dull proceedings. Siddharth has tried hard to do provide comedy with his butler English. He and Samantha make a good pair to look at, but their characters are poorly written. Samantha, like always, looks beautiful but she goes overboard in acting.

Srihari's role is not effective. Arjunan, Dharmavarapu, Tagubothu Ramesh, Venu, Shayaji Shinde and Vennela Kishore all are there to move the non-happening story forward.

On technical front, Mahesh Muthuswamy and Sanjay Loknath's cinematography is decent. The film has couple of good numbers by Taman. Veligonda Srinivas's dialogues are not that effective. Kona Venkat and director Nandini Reddy's screenplay is pretty bad. Nandini Reddy seems to have lost the track of her own script mid-way.

Bottom Line

Poorly etched characters, heavily hackneyed storyline, Jabardasth fails to impress. Even Sid and Sam’s hot pairing is not enough to save this not so Jabardasth film.

Rating: 2.5/5