Review of "Jai ho"

Jai ho

Story and logic take a backseat in Khan's films and that is the case with Jai Ho too. The film is designed around Khan's charisma and larger-than-life image. It enables him to Jai caught the dirty caller who was nagging her. But his incessant fights land him in trouble with a powerful politician whose fate is sealed once you know his name - Dashrath (Danny Denzongpa). That he is up against Salman Khan, the one-man army, is also enough to know where this is headed. Jai Ho aims to highlight the complacent mind set of the common man. In Jai, it fields an optimistic man who believes that his actions will make the world a better place. But this exercise, though noble, comes across as preachy. Writer Dilip Shukla plays on the sentiments by creating multiple situations where people are in trouble or in pain. Instead the film is at its best in lighter instances such as when Jai's nephew (Naman Jain) complains about the steeply priced who scores high in the terpsichorean department.