Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai Movie Reviews

It's light, breezy, buoyant and actually funny, now and then. More importantly, Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai makes up where Aladin flopped: it showcases some cosy chemistry between Gujju goner, Riteish Deshmukh and alien beauty, Jacqueline Fernandes who serenade each other with smiles, giggles, snuggles and a lot of silly banter. And if that's not enough, there's the boyz bandobast too: the funky friendship between loser number one

Love stories seem to be the fav genre of dream merchants here. I've a hunch, if we ever do a count of romantic films made in Bollywood, it would easily score over other genres. The question is, how innovative can a love story get in today's times? Milap Zaveri provides the answer: Man from Earth, woman from Venus. Having penned some likable comic capers in the past [MASTI, HEYY BABYY], Milap's directorial debut

In two days, a girl from Venus descends on Earth in a sad-looking spaceship to study love. But isn't Venus supposed to be the planet of all things romance, you ask? Milap Zaveri's Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai, however, doesn't feel the need to explain the irony. Feel free to draw your own sub-text. Like maybe things got way too mechanical up there? Or perhaps they felt a need to introduce a science-of-love program along the lines of Yoga?

Remember John Gray's bestseller, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus? Well, Milap Zaveri isn't inspired by the book (fortunately), but his main character, an alien called Tara (Jacqueline) comes from Venus. She isn't here to talk about the battle of the sexes but rather find true love and take it back home. The task of helping her out falls in the lap (literally!) of a simpleton named Raj (Riteih). Raj is a struggling assistant director

They say men are from Mars and women are from Venus. But what happens when a man from Earth meets a woman from Venus! Milap Zaveri’s breezy rom-com begins with a spoof on the Hindi film industry just like Om Shanti Om with Riteish playing SRK, Vishal Malhotra playing Shreyas Talpade and Ruslaan Mumtaz playing a superstar ‘Desh’ just the way Deepika Padukone played ‘Shantipriya’. OSO’s maker Farah Khan also makes an impressive cameo

There are a few things debutant director Milap Zaveri gets perfectly right in Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai. The film is about Rajesh Parekh, a class-A loser, played by Ritesh Deshmukh, who is an assistant director on the next Farah Khan project. Several Bollywood names do cameos – the highlight is Akshay Kumar venting spleen on a rival hero and then changing tracks to high praise as soon as he realises that a television camera is on

Ten minutes into Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai is a capsule of cameos by some of the top names in Bollywood. From director Sajid Khan who rues the fact that a newbie superstar Desh (Ruslaan Mumtaz) has kept him waiting for hours outside the make-up van (“Maine Shah Rukh aur Akshay ke liye bhi itna wait nahin kiya,” he laments) to sister Farah who regrets signing on the star for her film (“I miss you Shah Rukh,” she cries) to Priyanka Chopra

Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hain is a very silly film, stuffed with PJs as in poor, painful, pre-hormonal, pseudo, puerile jokes. The very stupid premise of the film makes you grimace, and then the fun never ever follows. Ritesh Deshmukh and Vishal Malhotra are two friends who work as third Assistant Director and still photographer, on a Farah Khan film set. Ever since his birth, Ritesh has been a shy, reserved boy who has never had a girlfriend

What is a loser-type to do if all pretty females turn away from him? Why, go out to an open field on a dark night , and wait for a beautiful creature from Venus to fall in his lap. That’s what happens to Rajesh ( Deshmukh), and the `pari’ whom he catches is Fernandes, in layers of frilly white gauze, and a smile as big as the ocean. Good idea, which needed zany treatment. But the debutant director who’s written such movies

What’s Good: The first half, the light moments, the acting, the songs. What’s Bad: The second half, the seriou...