Top cast Edit. Sonal Chauhan Zoya as Zoya. Shakeel Khan Shadaab as Shadaab. Vishal Malhotra Vishal as Vishal. Rohit Pathak Salim as Salim. Vipin Sharma Arjun's dad as Arjun's dad. Kunal Deshmukh. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Stuck in a triangle of sorts between the woman he loves and his addiction to make a quick buck, Arjun moves on from being a bookie to a runner for the mafia. He steps into the world of match fixing.
Arjun switches on the limelight to bigger, better, faster, more, until his dizzying rise attracts the attention of the police. Arjun has to now choose between the love of his life, Zoya, and this new found success and power.
As Arjun struggles to choose between the two, the Don offers the forbidden apple of limitless wealth in exchange for his soul and draws him into his core entourage of money spinners.
How far will the horizon of reality stretch as Arjun and Zoya tread a fine, fast-blurring line between right and wrong to find the heaven they have been looking for?
In search of heaven Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia Partially based on a Gambler by James Caan. It was also a time when Anurag Basu had left the Vishesh Films banner and Mohit Suri solely was trying to hold the fort and give hits. With Jannat , the Bhatts got a new talent to nurture and laugh all the way to the bank — director Kunal Deshmukh.
Jannat was to initially release two weeks before, on May 2, But the Bhatts feared that Akshay Kumar-Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor starrer biggie Tashan , that would release a week before, would eat into the business of their film.
Jannat was, hence, shifted to May But this underdog film silenced everyone. The film opened very big and sustained very well in the weekdays as well. Emraan Hashmi films were struggling to go back the Rs crore mark then. Jannat, meanwhile, collected approx Rs. It reportedly earned more than Tashan, Kismat Konnection, Fashion and many other big films of that year. In UAE, the distributor placed an order for an additional 4 more prints of Jannat over and above the 12 prints that he already had.
This was rare, especially for an Emraan Hashmi film! And more importantly, it was the first film to dispel the myth that IPL can affect ticket earnings to a great extent. Surprisingly, Jannat is no classic. However, the film has its charm and definitely, it has tremendous repeat value.
The film tells the story of Arjun Emraan Hashmi whose only aim is to earn a lot of moolah, by hook or by crook. He has no qualms in taking up challenges, even when the risk of losing money is quite high. He becomes a successful bookie and then starts working as a match fixer for an underworld don Abu Ibrahim Javed Siddiqui. Emraan Hashmi is definitely the soul of Jannat. He plays the character of Arjun effortlessly and the way he essays the part, nobody can.
No wonder, he became so huge with the masses. In Jannat , all these aspects were very much there but in a controlled manner. This also increased its reach, further contributing to its box office success. The Miss India runners-up during a shoot in Goa refused to wear a bikini or any kind of beach wear and Deshmukh had to make do with her in a short, summery dress. There was an issue over a kiss too. After doing a lip-lock with Hashmi in South Africa, Chauhan refused to kiss him a second time in a Mumbai studio.
Also, in the script narrated to her there was just one kiss. But we felt later that we needed a few more kisses. The music of Jannat has caught on in a big way but wasn't the songs scored for a Mohit Suri film? Pritam has reworked it into a groovier, peppier love track now and No. By the time the film releases, I should have a couple more songs in the top 10 list," he says confidently. One last question: Why would a film that deals with the hellish underworld be called Jannat?
It is the same with my hero who's looking for his heaven on earth. Though Kunal Deshmukh says that his intention was not to spark controversies, Jannat could ruffle a few feathers, writes Roshmila Bhattacharya. Share Via.
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