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According to zulm.net, the DVD has officially been released.
Reviews of this film haven't been too good, and either has the opening (Rediff and IBOS Network), but I'm still expecting something from this film.
B4U'S PJPSNJ REVIEW
Praan Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye
Skip it
Director : Sanjay Jha
Producer : Mindblowing movies
Music: Daboo Malik
Cast: Raveena Tandon, Namrata Shirodkar, Diya Mirza, Rinke Khanna, Divya Dutta and Shweta Menon
Rating: * *
By Kavita Awasthi
It’s a story of middle class people who live in chawls and make the ends meet. Around 50 or more families are shown with quite a lot of detailed version of their lives. Then as if their own fights weren’t enough when comes the new owner (Mahesh Manjrekar) who wants them to vacate the place to make way for a complex instead.
The present owner, Praveen Seth (Sachin Khedekar), is made into a villain as the occupants refuse to leave. In between the wafer thin story we have wives (Divya Dutta, Shweta Menon) giving lectures about their down trodden lives with husbands who don’t understand that they need a break from sex once in a while. Then there is a ugly duckling (Diya Mirza) negligently being paraded for a groom, a disabled father’s daughter (Rinkie Khanna), an actress (Namrata Shirodkar) trying to make it big. Interwoven with their lives, jokes, double entendres, and bathroom pun is this Jha endeavour. In the end, Laxmi Rathod (Raveena Tandon), manages to trick the owner and save the chawl.
Praan Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye is a spoof, an experimental film with too many characters and too little story meat to keep you gripped. Director Sanjay Jha makes a good impact with the portrayal of reality of life in the film. Though the film has with but the bad language mars it’s reach. Shweta Menon and Divya Dutta are good with their harcore bistar etc dialogues and scenes. Sachin Khedekar and Aman Verma are just ok and not given enough. Vijay Raaz is the best and he delivers too. Raveena Tandon gets the biggest part and does justice to it. While Namrata Shirodkar, Diya Mirza and Rinke Khanna have to do with little. Sushmita Sen, as the sutradhar, is no great shakes.
This one can be skipped.
Smashits PJPSNJ REVIEW
MANJREKAR DOESN'T LOSE SHAAN
By Suhel Johar
Critic's I-View
In 1964, Paramount produced a memorable Hollywood historical Becket, pitting two screen giants Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole against each other. The two thespians played best friends but turned bitter foes later. After nine years, Hrishikesh Mukherjee attempted a more contemporary interpretation with 'Namak Haram', starring two of Hindi cinema's most famous names --- seventies' superstars Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. Now 20 years later, Mahesh Manjrekar along with debutante director Sanjay Jha brings out a more contemporary version of 'Namak Haram', in the form of 'Praan Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye'. In this movie Sachin Khedekar and Aman Verma have played the characters performed by Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna in 'Namak Haram', respectively.
The cast comprises Raveena Tandon, Namrata Shirodkar, Rinke Khanna, Diya Mirza, Shweta Menon, Divya Dutta, Vijay Raaz, Aman Verma, Shivaaji Satam, Sachin Khedekar, Sayaji Shinde, Vivek Shauq, Sanjay Narvekar, Bharat Jadhav with Mahesh Manjrekar and Sushmita Sen as guest artistes. As the title suggests, 'Praan Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye' is the tale of 49 families living in 49 homes under one roof. A total of 239 people live in this chawl and all go through life's pains and happiness. Popatlal Chunilal Garodiya Chawl is the name of the chawl, which is inhabited by the cast of the film. Sachin Khedekar, the grandson of Popatlal, is the current owner of the chawl. He wants inhabitants to vacate the chawl by driving them away, and then construct a magnificent "Pitalwala" complex. The chawl residents try to foil his plans, but Sachin is hell bent on driving them out. The tug of war between the residents and Sachin goes on. A resident of the chawl plays such a trick that Sachin fears even to be seen in the vicinity of the chawl. But Sachin chalks out a devious plan to which the chawl people have nothing to counter. He plants Aman Verma in the chawl to win their confidence and then have them driven away from there.
The movie runs parallel to the lives of the chawl women. A section of these women is portrayed by Divya Dutta, a lower class woman whose husband is jobless and an alcoholic. Others like Shweta Menon work night and day to come home and face abuse only. But there are others like the young Rinke Khanna, who stays strong even though their families are ridden with turbulences. She is like the sunshine in the midst of clouds of darkness. Raveena Tandon portrays another women section. She is the leader of these oppressed women. She stands up and pleads not only for the women but also for everyone. Others are like Diya Mirza and Namrata Shirodkar who are in confused relationships called love.
Each character is well defined. Each one of them makes his/her presence felt, whether it is Raveena Tandon, Namrata Shirodkar, Rinke Khanna, Divya Dutta or for that matter Aman Verma, Sachin Khedekar, Vijay Raaz and any other male actor. Even Mahesh Manjrekar and Sushmita Sen make their presence felt in their guest roles. Director Sanjay Jha makes an impressive debut with the film.
There are minus points too. The film has no real face value to woo the audience. The music is on the weaker side though it goes well in the film. On the whole, 'Praan Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye' is not a regular Bollywood fare. It will appeal to people who are looking forward for something different than the usual fare.
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i wanted to watch this movie for the swearing.. but seeming they bleeped it out... i might just forget it!!