MOVIE REVIEW: Jaat
Jaat
Starring: Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda, Regina Cassandra, Saiyami Kher
Director: Gopichand Malineni
Music Director: Thaman S.
Jaat, which marks Telugu filmmaker Gopichand Malineni’s Hindi directorial debut, is an unabashedly noisy, nostalgiafueled spectacle that is clearly designed to showcase Sunny Deol’s signature style—thunderous one-liners and high-voltage action scenes. At 67, the guy is still a force to reckon with.
In a remote coastal village of Andhra Pradesh, ruthless criminal Ranatunga (Randeep Hooda) terrorizes the locals. When all seems lost, Sunny Deol enters as the mysterious Jaat who vows to end the tyranny and bring justice to the oppressed. While the first half makes for an engaging watch, post-interval the narrative pacing becomes a major issue and the movie drags. An item number seems totally forced.
Randeep Hooda, projected as a modern-day Ravan, is menacingly magnetic as Ranatunga. Vineet Kumar Singh alsoleaves an impression as Ranatunga’s ruthless brother, Somulu. Though the female characters—Regina Cassandra as Ranatunga’s wife Bharathi and Saiyami Kher as police officer Vijayalakshmi—do justice to their parts, their characters could have been etched better.
The background score uses Haryanvi and Punjabi folk influences, enhancing the dramatic and emotional moments, though it tends to go over the top.
So go for this messy, gory entertainer—which combines the swagger of South Indian action with North Indian machismo— only if you have a taste for violence and are a Sunny Deol fan.
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