Jawaani Jaaneman is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Nitin Kakkar, and produced by Jackky Bhagnani, Deepshikha Deshmukh, Jay Shewakramani and lead actor Saif Ali Khan under the banner of Pooja Entertainment, Black Knight Films and Northern Lights Films jointly. It stars Saif Ali Khan and a 20 years old debutant Alaya alongside Tabu. The film revolves around Jazz, a property broker and party animal in London, who has to confront a daughter he never knew he had, who is also pregnant. It is one of the highest worldwide gross movies.
Story of Jawaani Jaaneman:
Jaswinder “Jazz” Singh (Saif Ali Khan) is a 40-year-old carefree who works in London as a property broker during the day with his brother Dimpy (Kumud Mishra) and parties at night in a bar owned by his friend Rocky (Chunky Pandey), usually taking whichever girl agrees to go to his home for a one-night stand. Jazz, along with his brother Dimpy, has to negotiate a multi-million-pound deal involving a property in Hounslow, but his aged landlady Malika (Kamlesh Gill) refuses to part with her home, and his repeated attempts to convince her to give it up for the new construction do not succeed. One night, Jazz is partying as usual when a girl falls her drink down on him; she apologizes.
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First Twist:
The next night, at the same bar, she introduce her as Tia (Alaya Furniturewala), a 21-year-old Amsterdammer who has come to London for personal work. He agrees to take her to his home. There, Tia tells him that she is on a quest to find her long-lost father and that Jazz is one of three possible options, based on a photograph of Tia’s mother with him. When she tells him that she might be his daughter, he is aghast, but she advises him to take a DNA test to confirm the results. When the results arrive, it transpires that not only is Tia Jazz’s daughter, but she also happens to be pregnant. A shocked Jazz initially refuses to accept the truth; when Tia offers to stay with him and deliver her baby at his home, he refuses, saying that he cannot take on the responsibility of running a family. She moves in next door to his house. He consults this with his hairdresser friend Rhea (Kubbra Sait), for an advice. She congratulates him and advises him to confront his being not only a father but also going to be a grandfather. His reckless partying ways continue at personal expense, as once he falls from a bar table, drunk, and breaks his leg. His feelings for Rhea grow, but when he tries to have sex with her at her home, she stops him and asks him to give up his lecherous ways, and instead to be a good friend and nothing more. Tia starts to visiting Jazz’s home regularly, and silently try to adding herself to his family.
Second Twist:
One night Jazz’s brother Dimpy and their parents visit his home. Despite Jazz warning her against it, Tia embraces everyone and catches them unawares when she shows them her sonogram on Jazz’s projector, forcing him to explain the situation. When they leave, an elated Tia tells Jazz that she had come in search of a father but instead found a family. Tia also convinces his landlady Malika to agree to the property deal and part with her house, which she accepts on the condition that a willow tree that she has grown with since her childhood, not be touched. When Tia and Jazz are living happily together, Tia’s hippie mother Ananya (Tabu) and her boyfriend Rohan arrived in a sudden from Amsterdam. it is difficult to handle drug addict Tia’s hippie mother and her boyfriend for Jazz and he fears about this to be effecting in Tia’s delivery.
Climax of Jawaani Jaaneman:
One day Jazz and Dimpy are celebrating the launch of their new prime property in Hounslow when Tia arrives and notices in the model of the property that the willow tree is missing. Hurt, she leaves; when Jazz confronts her, and attempts to convince her that the millions to be gained from the property will more than compensate for the lost tree, she tells him tearfully that, instead of a father, she has found a property broker. Tia, Ananya and Rohan proceed to leave Jazz’s house to catch a train to Amsterdam, which leaves the next day. A despondent Jazz ponders over whether the deal is really worth aggrieving an old lady, before he finally decides to call off the Hounslow project, even at the expense of money, to which Dimpy agrees. Jazz rushes to the railway station where the three are waiting for their train; he proceeds to tell how he cancelled the deal and saved Malika’s tree, when Tia’s water breaks suddenly. The scene then cuts to the hospital where she has delivered a baby girl, and, for the first time, Jazz is genuinely happy at the prospect of having a family and being a grandfather.
The film comes to an ends with a get-together of Jazz’s friends Rhea and Rocky and his family at his parents’ home for Diwali celebrations. Jazz whispers into baby Kiara’s ears that she will be the world’s first baby to witness the wedding of both her parents and her grandparents, as Tia looks on happily.
Reviews of Jawaani Jaaneman:
In the first part you can see a 40 years old playboy man is not interested to settle down in his life. He was happy with it. And all of a sudden a 21 years young girl appears who pretend her to be his daughter. Medical test has done and it is proved that she is his daughter. But the man cannot take the sudden change and he disagree with it. But, inside he think for his daughter and tense about that. As the time passes care like a father grow up in that person and he agree with his situation. He allow his daughter to stay with him and take care of him. At the end when his daughter make him understood that what is living for caring others then the 40 years old man understand the meaning of life and close persons in life. Then he do the things that are good for others and convenience his daughter to live with her and to live the moment with her grandchild which he cannot do with his child i.e. his daughter.
Lesson for the Life:
So the movie teaches us that, anyone cannot live without a family. There is a limit in life that much can be lived single. But after a time everyone want to live a happy life with his children and other family persons. Many melody dramas are there in the film, may be it is not hit at box office, but it is better than other movies of Saif. It rated 7.8 by IMDb out of 10. So that it is not flop movie at all.
Direction, Producers, Starring, Box office collection of Jaawani Jaaneman:
| Directed by : | Nitin Kakkar |
| Produced by : | Jackky Bhagnani Deepshikha Deshmukh Saif Ali Khan Jay Shewakramani |
| Written by : | Hussain Dalal Abbas Dalal (dialogue) |
| Starring : | Saif Ali Khan Tabu Alaya Furniturewala |
| Music by : | Songs: Gourov-Roshin Tanishk Bagchi Prem – Hardeep Score: Ketan Sodha |
| Cinematography : | Manoj Kumar Khatoi |
| Edited by : | Sachinder Vats Chandan Arora |
| Production Company : | Pooja Entertainment Black Knight Films Northern Lights Films |
| Distributed by : | Pen Marudhar Entertainment |
| Release date : | 31 January 2020 |
| Running time : | 115 minutes |
| Country : | India |
| Language : | Hindi |
| Box office : | est. 44.77 crore |
