Jimmy movie rating and review

Jimmy (2008) Movie Rating and Review :

Rating :

Acting – 0/10
Direction – 0/10
Screenplay – 0/10
Music – 1/10
Technique – 0/10

Review :

Oh, Mimoh!

In the winter of 1983, a young man asked “Do you wanna sing with me?” and disco-danced his way into the hearts of the nation. Twenty-five years after Mithun Chakraborty mesmerised the country with his moves, son Mimoh — in a bid to cash in on the Mithun mania of the 80s — makes his debut in Jimmy, the screen name that made his father a household sensation. The result? A film that doesn’t have a script, with most of its nondescript cast being forced out of retirement and a star son who has a long way to go before he even thinks of being seen in another film.

Jimmy is one of those make it, trash it, forget it films that 80s Bollywood churned out with assembly-line efficiency. Corny lines, poor production values, inane songs popping up whenever director Raj N.C. Sippy (who once gave us the immensely enjoyable Satte Pe Satta) can’t figure out what to do and a plot that makes many of Mithun’s Tollywood potboilers seem like masterpieces are the highlights of the two-hour film. And in the middle of it all is Mimoh aka Jasminder Kumar aka Jimmy. An automobile engineer by day and DJ by night, Jimmy’s world is turned upside down when he finds himself accused of murder. The rest of the film is a mess and that too an unoriginal one, with shades of the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Majboor and half-a-dozen Sunny Deol films. The audience wallows in self-pity for the next hour till Jimmy unmasks the real killer.

With Jimmy’s pre-release publicity centred on Mimoh, the film does all it can to showcase the star son. But with his lack of expression, zero screen presence and amateurish dialogue delivery, Mimoh disappoints big time. And his unconventional voice and multicoloured tresses do little to help. If the promos went all-out to showcase Mimoh’s twinkle toes, the film, surprisingly, choosing to promote him as a Sunny Deol clone who grunts, raves and rants as he beats villains to a pulp. The only nostalgia-infused magical moment is when Mimoh moves to Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, the way dad has done to MJ hits in the past.

The rest of the cast simply going through the motions, although model-actor Vivana who plays the female lead does a better job of it than the rest. The music score by Anand Raaj Anand doesn’t have a single foot-tapping number.

Give Jimmy a miss. Watch it only if you are a die-hard Mithun fan. But then catching the Mahaguru’s Satyameva Jayate must be a better option.

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