Jazbaa Official Trailer: A Tad Too Dramatic For A Thriller

Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s comeback film Jazbaa’s trailer was out yesterday. We were really thrilled and excited about it, but all we got was high dosage of melodrama.

Aishwarya plays Anuradha Verma, a Mumbai-based top-notch lawyer who is also a single mother to her daughter Sanaya. When Sanaya gets abducted by the group of goons who want Anuradha to defend a criminal and make him walk free from a murder and rape case, Anuradha has to make a choice between fighting against the justice and fighting for it.

Last seen in Guzaarish (2010), in the role of a nurse, Aishwarya has been away from the screen for a long time now; however, that has not steered her away from being one of the most prominent actresses of all times. In Jazbaa though, at least in the first trailer, we have to say that she disappoints.

There is something that’s not right in the way she shouts after coming to know of her daughter’s abduction, and runs to save her. We certainly think that Aishwarya, who’s a good actress as proven in a lot of movies, and has become a mother in real life as well, could have done a lot better than shouting a name that lasts longer than it should. Even in the last scene where she slaps the convict in anger, she doesn’t look convincing.

Here is the trailer:



Irrfan, as usual, is impressive as the cop and emotes well through his eyes, words, and actions. The movie also stars Chandan Roy Sanyal as the convict Anuradha has to defend, with Shabana Azmi, Jackie Shroff, and Atul Kulkarni.

Directed by Sanjay Gupta, the movie releases on 9th October 2015 and is a remake of the 2007 South Korean movie Seven Days.