Jackpot (2013 film)

Jackpot
Release poster
Directed by	Kaizad Gustad
Produced by	Raina Sachiin Joshi
Written by	Kaizad Gustad Amol Parashar
Starring	Naseeruddin Shah Sunny Leone Sachiin J Joshi raghvi d'souza
Music by	John Stewart
Cinematography	Artur Zurawski
Studio	Viiking Media & Entertainment
Release dates	December 13, 2013 (2013-12-13)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Jackpot is a 2013 Hindi comedy thriller directed by Kaizad Gustad starring Sunny Leone, Naseeruddin Shah and Sachiin J Joshi.^[1][2][3][4] The film released on December 13, 2013 with 1150 screens release in India.^[5][6][7] Jackpot was declared a Flop by Boxoffice India with total earnings of just INR 5 Crores. ^[8]

Plot

Francis (Sachiin J Joshi) packs in the muscle and has a can of beer always close at hand. He is also street-smart enough to impress Maya (Sunny Leone), the oomphy voice of reason in the movie. Boss Man (Naseeruddin Shah) is a veteran raver whose clothes are as colourful as his principles and punchlines. Slow in speech but quick to draw a six-shooter, he owns the Jackpot casino.

Boss, Francis and Maya hatch a plan to steal crores of cash. And while the deed itself is executed decently enough, the subsequent sub-plots and implications of intrigue amongst the schemers is laid on with the predictability and subtlety of a bull in a china shop.

Cast

• Naseeruddin Shah as Boss
• Sunny Leone as Maya
• Sachiin J Joshi as Francis
• Bharath as Anthony D’Souza
• Makrand Deshpande
• Manish Wadhwa
• Sumit Kumar
• Daniel Weber (cameo)

Filming

The majority of the shooting for the film was completed in Goa.^[9] Kaizad Gustad shot the film in 27 days.^[10]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack has 9 tracks. Sharib & Toshi, Mika, Remo Fernandes, Gods Robots (Shridevi Keshavan & Janaka Atugoda), Rishi Rich, Juno Reactor, Rahul Bhatt & Javed Jaffri and Itek Bhutani composed one song each.

1. Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse – Arijit Singh
2. Full Jhol – Mika Singh, Akasa Singh
3. Bol Bugger Bol – Remo Fernandes
4. Jackpot Jeetna – Sunidhi Chauhan
5. Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse (Remix) – Arijit Singh ft Rishi Rich
6. Jackpot – MANISH WADHWA
7. Eggjactly – Jaaved Jaaferi
8. Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse (Female) – Shreya Ghoshal
9. Now You See, Now You Don’t – Ramya Iyer
10. Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse (Remix) – Arijit Singh

Marketing

Censor Board axed the rap song 'Eggjactly' from the film as it was a bit vulgur, though the video of the song was released online.^[11] The premiere of Jackpot was held at PVR Cinemas in Juhu, Mumbai, on December 12,2013 to which Shahrukh Khan, Urvashi Sharma and other celebrities came.^[12][13][14] Sunny Leone promoted the film in various cities like Gurgaon, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Bangalore (Inorbit Mall).^[15] Sunny Leone and Sachin also promoted the film on the shows 'Bigg Boss 7' and 'Comedy Circus Ke Mahabali'.^[16][17][18]

Critical Reception

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3 out of 5 stars.^[19] Subhash K. Jha of SKJbollywoodnews gave no stars to the film and stated that "Jackpot is noire film with twists in the tale".^[20][21][22] Reagan Gavin Rasquinha of Times of India gave Jackpot 2 stars out of 5.^[23] Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express gave the film 1/2 star only.^[24] Avad M of Bollywood3 rated the film 1.5/5 and stated that Naseeruddin Shah is the only saving grace of this film as he is brilliant as the notorious business man.^[25]

Boxoffice

Jackpot collected Rs 1 crore nett approx on day one.^[26][27] The film had a poor first week collecting Rs 4.5 crores nett.^[28]

References

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External links

• Jackpot at the Internet Movie Database
• Jackpot on BollywoodHungama.com
• Jackpot on Facebook
• Jackpot on Twitter
• Jackpot on Centist
• Jackpot (2013) - Bollywood in The amzTIMES