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Jawani Diwani

Mann (Emraan Hashmi) is an aspiring singer with an obvious weakness for women. Mann wouldn’t mind manipulating someone or playing the game of love just to climb up the ladder to stardom.

After having been turned down by music companies, Mann comes across Radha (Hrishitaa Bhatt), daughter of the owner of a music company. Mann plays the dice. Radha is ensnared in the game of love. Song and dance follow and Mann’s ticket to fame is almost booked.

It’s time to celebrate. So Mann, along with his friends, heads off to the party-land, Goa. It is here Mann meets Roma (Celina Jaitley), a shapely, skimpily dressed girl with a sex appeal that can arouse any heterosexual man. Obviously, Mann falls for her and the two end up in bed, but not before some song n dance.

Now, the storywriters try to add a twist here. But as the movie progresses, it turns out to be a twist in no direction.

Chappu Bhai (Mahesh Manjrekar), an underworld don, makes an entry. After seeing Roma, the girl he admires, in bed with Mann, Chappubhai decides to get the two married.

Mann and Roma are made to marry. While Roma seems to approve of the wedlock, Mann finds himself caught in an unwanted relationship. He won’t trade his ticket to fame (read Radha) with any other girl, no matter how alluring.

So Roma cuts him loose. The two end their marriage with divorce. Mann goes back to Radha. He begins preparing for his first music album, and Radha prepares for marriage. This is when Roma comes back into Mann’s life. What happens next is as predictable as the sun setting every evening.

‘Jawani Diwani’ hardly passes off as a timepass entertainer. The double meaning dialogues in the film doesn’t even make half the impact they intend to. The comedy is kiddish. And the songs test viewers’ patience.

I wonder why Emraan Hashmi is often cast in Casanova-like roles? In this movie, he doesn’t have to try too hard to woo any of the two girls. Accepted that the guy has some raw appeal, but he frankly ain’t got the stuff that makes babes drool over men.

And as for comedy, Emraan simply has no flair for it.

Celina Jaitley’s cleavage and anatomy is a welcome distraction from everything inconsequential in the movie. But just a shapely body and sex appeal doesn’t make an actress. Celina’s diction and her facial expressions leave too much to be desired.

Mahesh Manjrekar’s character in the movie is made to look like a bumbling buffoon.

Hrishitaa Bhatt is adequate in the role that writers incompetently etched for her.

In short, Jawani Diwani works only in few selected sequences. The movie, on the whole, falls flat.

(Source: www.apunkachoice.com)