Reviews & Ratings for
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)

Can you base an entire movie around one song? The filmmakers of Jhoom Barabar Jhoom certainly give it their all. Admittedly, it IS a catchy tune, but I would say a full hour of the 2 plus hour runtime is this song, and variations of this song and dances TO this song.

I love Abhishek Bachchan and I like Preity Zinta. Their chemistry is cute -- especially in the middle section "what if" dream sequence, if they had met before they were "engaged" to other people.

They meet in a train station and share a table. They both lie that they are engaged to other people so it is safe to share stories without flirtation. Each creates a whopper of a tale about meeting their fictional fiancees, both slightly amusing. Bobby Deol as a sort of super lawyer I found the most amusing, as his real life persona was a living under his mother's thumb nerd.

My problem is really with Abhishek's character -- or rather his costume. It is SO clownish, that I found it hard to believe Preity would fall for him in a two hour period. I'm all for rough around the edges heroes, but they made him a CLOWN with a ridiculous jacket. Surely, he could have been lower class, rough, a hustler, but had charisma and a wardrobe that while not a business suit wasn't quite that ridiculous. (See Happy New Year for a prime example -- similar character, much funnier and not a clown in DRESS, but in action.)

The dance contest, the fake fiancees falling for each other -- that was all fine and amusing. But did the action really have to all take place within a 24 (or was it 36?) hour period? Just the whole construct of the farce plot didn't work for me.