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'Jai Ho' is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language socio-political action drama film directed and produced by Sohail Khan, with Kishore Lulla of Eros International serving as distributor and co-producer. It is a remake of A. R. Murugadoss's Telugu film 'Stalin' (2006) that was itself also inspired from the American-drama film 'Pay It Forward'. The film stars Salman Khan in the title role with an ensemble cast including Tabu, Daisy Shah, Danny Denzongpa, Aditya Pancholi, Sunil Shetty, Mohnish Bahl, Genelia D'Souza, Pulkit Samrat, Mahesh Thakur, Nadira Babbar among others.
'Jai Ho' was released on 24 January 2014, during the Republic Day weekend. It received mixed reviews from critics. However, the film grossed at the box office, becoming the sixth highest grossing Bollywood film of 2014
Plot
Jai Agnihotri (Salman Khan) is an ex-army officer who is short-tempered and passionate about helping citizens and fighting criminals. He was a major in the Indian Army, but was suspended after he ignored orders from his superiors by rescuing a group of children from terrorists. After this incident, Jai moved in with his mother and sister Geeta (Tabu). One day, Jai is unable to help Suman (Genelia D'Souza), a physically disabled girl, take an examination while her brother Rohan (Vikas Bhalla) was stuck in a traffic jam. A depressed Suman commits suicide. Jai is greatly disturbed by this incident. With Suman's death fresh in his mind, Jai creates a system that would encourage citizens to help each other. Each day, citizens are to help three people. These three people would in turn help three more people, and so on. Jai believes that this network would foster kindness and a sense of community among the citizens. His system, however, faces challenges.
On one occasion, for one of his daily good deeds, Jai loses his temper and beats a rich man who had injured a child beggar. In an act of revenge, the rich man employs some men to kidnap Jai's sister Geeta and friend Rinky. Jai is able to save Geeta and Rinky, but injures one of the captors in the process, who happens to be the henchman of a member of the Legislative Assembly named Patil, the son-in-law of the Home Minister Dashrath Singh. Dashrath Singh is not happy that Jai has injured one of Patil's henchmen. He attempts to avenge this injury by kidnapping Jai's nephew Kabir. Dashrath, however, loses Patil out of Jai's rage in the process. Chief Minister Ashok Pradhan (Mohnish Bahl) finds out about Jai's system after his own life is saved by a schoolgirl performing her good deeds for the day. He decides to intervene in the dispute between Dashrath Singh and Jai in an attempt to put an end to their fight. Dashrath Singh, who does not appreciate this intervention, attempts to kill Ashok and frame Jai. However, Jai is able to save Ashok.
Dashrath Singh's son Arjun Singh and his hired men attack Jai, who kills Arjun Singh, but not before the latter is severely injured after getting stabbed by his sister and Patil's widow, Kavita Singh and she being stabbed unknowingly by Arjun. A rickshaw driver and Jai's former colleague, Army Captain Arjun Kaul (Sunil Shetty), together help Jai get to the hospital. While Jai is at the hospital, Dashrath Singh spreads rumours that Jai had attempted to assassinate Ashok. Once he recovers, Ashok reveals that it was Dashrath Singh who was behind the attempted murder and Jai is innocent. An enraged crowd beats Dashrath Singh to near death after hearing the truth. The doctors are able to save Jai, who has survived, thanks to his own help-three-people concept. When Jai emerges from the hospital, He finds thousands of people waiting for him. Jai thanks them all for making his concept a success.
Cast
*Salman Khan as Jai Agnihotri
*Tabu as Geeta Agnihotri Khanna
*Daisy Shah as Rinky Shah
*Danny Denzongpa as Home Minister Dashrath Singh
*Sunil Shetty as Captain Arjun Kaul (special appearance)
*Sana Khan as Kavita Singh Patil
*Mohnish Bahl as Chief Minister Ashok Pradhan (special appearance)
*Genelia D'Souza as Suman Malhotra (special appearance)
*Pulkit Samrat as Inspector Abhay Rajput
*Aditya Pancholi as Inspector Naresh Kadam
*Nauheed Cyrusi as Simran Choudhry
*Ashmit Patel as Sumit Mohile
*Nadira Babbar as Sulochana Agnihotri
*Mahesh Thakur as Rehaan Khanna
*Mahesh Manjrekar as Balwant "Babban" Kumar Choudhary
*Yash Tonk as Balbir "Babu" Sahani
*Varun Badola as Boman D'Souza
*Resham Tipnis as Meghna Shah
*Vikas Bhalla as Rohan Malhotra
*Sharad Kapoor as Inspector Azaad Siddiqui
*Naman Jain as Kabir Khanna
*Sara Arjun as School girl
*Ruhanika Dhawan as Sanjana Sahani
*Mukul Dev as Shrikant Patil
*Haroon Qazi as Arjun Singh
*Nana Banana as Class Wrap
*Bruna Abdullah as Anne Rosselline
*Sudesh Lehri as Pandit Kaushal Chand Sharma
*Santosh Shukla as Manik Singh
*Jeetu Verma as Subhash Prasad Agashe
*Raju Mavani as Rajkishan Gupta
*Tulip Joshi as Anushita DSouza
*Vatsal Sheth as Wanjit Kapoor
Production
Development
In late 2012, Sohail Khan announced he planned to remake the Telugu film 'Stalin' starring Chiranjeevi and Trisha. Khan originally titled the remake 'Mental' then they titled 'Circus', but by the time the film was released, it had been re-titled 'Jai Ho'.
Filming
Shooting for the film was set to begin 27 February 2013 but was postponed until late March. There were rumors that the film would be released in 3D, but Sohail Khan was cited stating, "First, let me complete my film in the normal format. Then I'll take a call".
Marketing
Salman Khan unveiled the first look poster of 'Jai Ho' on 6 December 2013. The poster consisted of images of thousands of fans digitally merged to create one portrait of Khan. Khan's fans designed this poster. The makers unveiled the film's official teaser on 13 December 2013. The official trailer of the film was released on 3 January 2014.
Reception
Critical response
'India Today' gave 'Jai Ho' a 3 out of 5 and commented that it was a rip off of 'Ek Tha Tiger' with mindless action. Anupama Chopra gave the movie a 2.5 out of 5, stating, 'Jai Ho' was more of a cartoon than a film.
Raja Sen of Rediff gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said, Khan, Bollywood's real-life answer to Derek Zoolander, does his thing like only he can. And the crowd responds. Sitting in a single-screen theatre, the air was filled with shrill, thrilled whistles as soon as the censor certificate hit the screen. The first glimpse of Khan via braceleted wrist had the crowd in paroxysms." Rajeev Masand of 'CNN-IBN' gave 2 stars out of 5, commenting "To be honest, very little stays with you when you leave the cinema, aside from the unpleasant aftertaste that comes from being shamelessly manipulated."
Taran Adarsh gave it 4.5 stars out of 5 and called it a "noble, well-intentioned message narrated in an entertaining format".
Box office
'Jai Ho' was released on around 3900 screens in India and 650 screens in overseas. The domestic and overseas theatrical rights were sold for 1.1 billion ($16 million). 'Jai Ho' spent around 40 crore ($5.9 million) on the production of the film. The film cost around 650 million ($9.6 million) total with the cost of marketing and prints added, but this number still does not include Khan's remuneration. The satellite rights were sold for 50 crore ($7.4 million), and music rights were also sold for 12 crore ($1.8 million).'Jai Ho' suffered losses from piracy. A Dubai-based user uploaded a pirated version of the film to YouTube on 28 January 2014. The video had 108,151 views by the time it was removed on 1 February 2014. Another version of the film was uploaded on 2 February 2014. DNA Films reported that Khan had requested that ticket prices be kept at the minimum so that people could afford to see the movie because of its message.
India
The website Boxofficeindia.com said that 'Jai Ho' opened well at single screens like Jodhpur, Lucknow, Indore, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and CI, with an occupancy of 80100%, 2530% better than 'Dhoom 3' and 'Chennai Express', and moderately well (50%) at multiplexes of Delhi, Punjab, Bangalore and Kolkata.It had an opening-day collection of around nett. The second day collections were about , taking the total to .On Sunday, the film collected to take its weekend total to . 'Jai Ho' had a noticeable drop on Tuesday as it grossed around 7.75 crore nett taking the five-day total to a little over 74 crore. Jai Ho emerged as the fifth highest weekend of all time in terms of worldwide gross by managing to gross 200 crore worldwide in three days. Jai Ho dropped further on first Wednesday with collections around 5.255.50 crore nett to take the 6-day total to . Jai Ho had the ninth highest first week of all time as it grossed nett in its first week. The film's net earnings crossed 3 crore on the second Friday after release. The film has collected 90 crores nett in 9 days. Jai Ho collected 13.50 crore nett in its second weekend taking its domestic total 95 crore in 10 days. 'Jai Ho' has been made tax-free in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. 'Jai Ho'
Overseas
The website, Bollywoodhungama.com estimated 'Jai Ho' grossed $3.55 million overseas in its first weekend. Box Office India estimated it grossed slightly less at $3.45 million and called it "decent business". The final overseas gross for Jai Ho was $6 million making it one of the highest overseas grossing Bollywood films of 2014.
Music
SajidWajid, Amaal Mallik and Devi Sri Prasad composed the nine-song soundtrack album for 'Jai Ho', in which Malik had contributed three tracks and Prasad had contributed one track, while the former composed 5 tracks. Sajid, Irfan Kamal, Danish Sabri, Sameer Anjaan, Kausar Munir, Shabbir Ahmed, Armaan Malik, and Devi Sri Prasad wrote the lyrics for all the songs in the album. The full soundtrack album was released on 3 January 2014.
See also
* List of Hindi films of 2014
References
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