Despite the clichéd trappings of its story, Jaane Tu’s success in the box office is well deserved, says SMM AUSAJA

Actor Aamir Khan has an illustrious lineage. His uncle Nasir Hussain made some of the breeziest musicals of 60s and 70s, after a blazing debut with Tum Sa Nahin Dekha (1957). His father Tahir Hussain also began as an assistant to Nasir in Tum Sa Nahin Dekha, and soon graduated to an ‘executive producer’ level in Nasir Hussain Films. He turned producer with Jeetendra-Asha Parekh starrer Caravan (1971), a musical success. He produced several films later, including Anamika (1973), Zakhmee (1975), Dulha Bikta Hai (1982), and the Aamir starrers Tum Mere Ho (1990) and Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke (1993). However, it was Nasir who launched Aamir in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak in 1988, under his son Mansoor Khan’s direction.

A winning Imran Khan uplifts a romance that’s charming, but also a bit too fond of clichés.

IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I’VE SEEN a display of such superb supporting performances as the one in Abbas Tyrewala’s Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, so you’ll forgive me if I leave considerations about Imran Khan (Aamir’s nephew, whose launch pad this is) for later. Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan are at their riotous best as dimwit brothers who, for reasons that aren’t quite clear at first (but click together subsequently with a marvellous snap), saunter into a disco on horseback. Freed from the compulsions of mugging under Priyadarshan’s megaphone, Paresh Rawal proves, once again, what an exquisitely subtle comic he can be.