Adya Vats Do not waste two hours of your life watching this movie, it's not worth it AT ALL. A very very bad come back for Aishwarya, after 5 years or so of being away from the silver screen you would expect her to come back with a bang and if not then at least a movie that's watchable. Throughout the movie, for some random unknown reason, the sky is made with some pathetic CGI or VFX or however they did it, its a constant orange-y green mucky colour, why just why would you do that??? What is the need for the sky to be made with cheap graphics? why couldn't they just let it be?? The editing in this movie is so cringe worthy, almost every scene abruptly ends and the next one just starts randomly, there's no smooth transition between scenes and that becomes very annoying as the movie progresses. The acting is beyond horrendous, Aishwarya has done a pathetic job, in fact she was annoying, the dialogue delivery was so monotonous and uninteresting, even Irrfan Khan seemed unimpressive which is a shocker because he usually delivers. The story of the movie wasn't too bad, it had the potential to become a better film maybe if the script was written better. The so called "suspense" they tried to build failed miserably, I knew who the culprit was 30 minutes in to the movie which is an absolute bummer. Bottom line, don't waste your time with this movie, I'm sure you have better things to do with your time.

Jewel Lane Loved the movie. It offers a fair share of suspense, mystery & excitement. A change from the romantic stories & ordinary comic. Was good to see Aishwarya after a long spell and Irrfan in his unique style is incredible. In his inimitable style he comes across as a hero and one can't imagine the plot playing out as well with anyone else in his place. Aishwarya's performance in The scene under the flyover, when her daughter is taken away was par excellence. Loved the Om Bracelet Aishwarya is wearing. To see Om Bracelets like Aishwarya visit https://www.jewelslane.com/bracelets/om/gold-thread-om Look forward to see more from both Aishwarya & Irrfan.

srikanth-g Whats good about the film is its fast paced with enough suspense to keep you engaged. Jazbaa is tight, gripping and shot in Gupta's signature style. Clearly the film belongs to Aishwarya. She manages to make Anuradha believable. Atul Kulkarni, Shabana Azmi, Jackie Shroff, Irrfan Khan fill up the frame with their strong performances.Despite having a good story, the director has badly written characters that stands out like a sore thumb in an otherwise stellar star cast. The slow motion scene where Aishwarya runs and screams her daughter's name before interval is too over the top and theatrical. It ruins the subtleness. The flawed moments in Jazbaa are those where Gupta asks his actors to do more, whether it is to scream louder, fight harder, or say the lines with more drama. Over all, the film is an edge of the seat thriller that delivers because of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Irrfan Khan's able performances, Jazbaa is definitely not a worst film. Had it been a different director, then the film would have been the best.

Tejas Nair Take a city, add bombastic dialogs, add lots of green, and you get a Sanjay Gupta Film. Take the recipe, add an actress who had a hiatus of at least 5 years, and you get Jazbaa. Had it been 7 years, you would have got Jazbaaa, 8 then Jazzbaaa, 9 then Jjazzbaaa, and so on, but that's not the issue here.After showing the audience that she is fit and fine to come back to the screen by running through Marine Drive, Bachchan starts portraying the roles of a criminal lawyer, a marathon sprinter, a helicopter mom, and a Gold medalist screamer. Boy, she can scream anywhere, anytime, and at anybody. Suddenly, her school-going daughter is kidnapped by a tech-savvy abductor-cum-hacker-cum-righteous mamzer who demands that she fight the case of a convicted drug dealer and let him walk free.To our surprise, she agrees to pay the unique ransom, and helping her in her child-saving mission is her childhood friend (really?), rustily played by Khan who is himself fighting an alleged graft case for heck's sake. What follows is neither new to our thriller senses nor is novel by any of its look-good approaches.Throwing green and more green at you just because it's your signature style does not work anymore. We have reached Mars, for god's sakes. Apart from those delivered by Khan, all the dialogs are preposterous. Do you think you would scream "Where are you?" to a kidnapper who has just abducted your baby? Mr. Gupta does.Mrs. Bachchan's performance is particularly cringe-worthy as she moves here and there with a dead stare in her eyes and a lion's roar for a throat. Reacting throughout the film like you hate everybody is not the appropriate type of characterization that one adds into a story whose climax is more apparent than the actors' ages. The protagonist plays a lawyer who only defends known, guilty offenders because, she claims, "those who are not guilty cannot afford her." With this attitude, I had Arybhatta's greatest invention of cares to give.The screenplay is a hot mess. Trying to slip in few songs between a thriller film is the lowest thing Gupta has done for Jazbaa. There's even a hip hop song by Badshah somewhere which had great similarities with his number in Khoobsurat. It reminded me of its actress and I was done for the day.Courtroom sequences are nicely carved jokes here, where the judge is sleeping and the advocates themselves reaching a verdict, even making few educated guesses in front of him; it was unintentional humor. They are so bad that just these sequences can be tried in a real court for perjury. There's also a touch of activism, for cryin' out loud. I am all for woman-centric films, but churning out rubbish in the name of thrills and hiring an actress with a huge fandom and telling an ordinary story will be received the same way how other recent films are received in Bollywood, irrespective of the genre. Shroff and Azmi did a good job.BOTTOM LINE: Sanjay Gupta's Jazbaa is maybe made for the modern world where every other person is a thug, but after analysis, it just looks like green beef.GRADE: D-Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES