JACKPOT Director Kaizad Gustad’s comeback venture

SYNOPSIS: Director Kaizad Gustad’s comeback venture ‘Jackpot’ is about Maya (Sunny Leone) and Francis (Sachin S Joshi) who are cons. But now they are tired of doing small cons and opt for something big. So they land up to a casino boat for the card game and plan to fly away with the jackpot money. But, that’s not easy for them as they have to face the Boss (Naseeruddin Shah) of the casino. Will Maya and Francis be successful in their plan? Will they get the Jackpot? This Is the rest of the story.

STORY, SCREENPLAY AND DIALOGUES: Writers Kaizad Gustad and Amol Parashar come up with yet another most annoying and disappointing film ‘Jackpot’. Similar kind of scripts and films have been witnessed in the past like ‘Johnny Gaddar’ which was brilliantly made, but this one is rather confusing with pathetic presentation of the narrative. The most lamest progression ever seen with this kind of a script which had good scope, but really mishandled in a brutal way. The writers should have at least copied from some of the Hollywood movies and written the screenplay which could have saved the audience from the torture. Dialogues are not at all impressive and with a bad taste.

PERFORMANCES: Performance wise a brilliant actor like Naseerudin Shah has been terribly wasted, the actor has tried to do his part but is badly let down, due to the lame script. We should say to Naseer Sir that at this point of time in his career, he should not make such blunder mistakes which could affect the rapport of his brilliance in acting skills. Sachin Joshi has previously managed to torture us a lot with his pathetic performances and this time he comes with more ridiculous performance, we suggest him to leave the industry and spare us from this sufferings. Sunny leone is only good for what the makers are keeping her for and that is skin show, but the audience has already had an overdose of her skin show and would not spend to watch it on big screen. We suggest she should focus on what she is best at and do not act in future. Makrand Deshpande is also wasted and gives a very mediocre performance.

DIRECTION, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING: After giving the disastrous movie ‘Boom’ decade ago, Director Kaizad Gustad comes with his latest offering ‘Jackpot’. The director has disappointed us a decade ago and has wasted legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan in his film ‘Boom’, he should have never had the guts to repeat such a brutal act again, by giving the audience such a bad taste of film making. It’s a kind request to the director kindly don’t even dream of making another film after this. Cinematography by Artur Zurawsky is very shady and Editing by Yasser Abbas could have been more sharp as per the scripts demand.

ACTION, BACKGROUND SCORE AND MUSIC: Action by Mehmood Khan is very ordinary. Musically a below average album with no hits on the chart.

CHOREOGRAPHY, LOCATIONS AND PRODUCTION VALUE:Choreography by Bosco Ceasar is just okay. Locations and sets are fine. Production Values are of a low standard.

OUR VERDICT:  Overall ‘Jackpot’ is a total waste and torture, please don’t go to get a severe headache after watching it, rather stay away from it and chill out with your family with some other entertainment options. Strictly not recommended.