Jai Ho (film)

Jai Ho

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Sohail Khan[1]
Produced by Sohail Khan
Sunil Lulla
Written by Dilip Shukla
(dialogue)
Screenplay by Dilip Shukla
A. R. Murugadoss
Story by A. R. Murugadoss
Based on Stalin 
by A. R. Murugadoss
Starring Salman Khan
Tabu
Daisy Shah
Danny Denzongpa
Music by Songs:
Sajid-Wajid
Devi Sri Prasad
Amaal Mallik
Background score:
Sandeep Shirodkar
Cinematography Santosh Thundiyil
Edited by Ashish Amrute
Production
company
Distributed by Eros International[2]
Release dates
  • 24 January 2014 (2014-01-24)
Running time
 142 minutes [3]
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget ₹65 crore (US$9.6 million)[4]
Box office ₹183 crore (US$27 million)[5]

Jai Ho is a 2014 Indian action drama film directed by Sohail Khan and produced by Khan along with Sunil Lulla. The film stars Salman Khan, Tabu and Sunil Shetty alongside Danny Denzongpa as the antagonist. It features cameo appearances by Sunil Shetty and Genelia D'Souza. The film is an official remake of the 2006 Telugu film Stalin directed by A. R. Murugadoss, whose story was inspired by the American film Pay It Forward.[6]

Jai Ho was released on 24 January 2014 on 3900 screens in India and on around 650 screens overseas,[7] to mixed critical reception.[8]

Jai Ho's worldwide distribution rights were sold for ₹110 crore (US$16 million) and its satellite rights were sold for ₹50 crore (US$7.4 million). Its music rights were sold for ₹12 crore (US$1.8 million).

Plot

Jai Agnihotri (Salman Khan), an ex-army officer, is passionate about helping people and overcomes criminals single-handedly. He was a major in the Indian Army, but was suspended because of a disciplinary action after he ignored the orders of the high command and went ahead to rescue a bunch of children from terrorists. He now lives with his mother (Nadira Babbar) as well as his sister Geeta (Tabu), both of who are not on speaking terms with each other since Geeta married a Muslim man against her mother's wish.

Jai once helped a physically disabled girl, Suman (Genelia D'Souza) to write her examination, but on another day, during one of her other examinations, no one turned up to help, despite her persistent begging. Depressed, Suman commits suicide, by jumping of the building. Disturbed by this incident, Jai feels that unlike himself, people don't help others and hence plans to start a network system that works on the concept that everyone should help three people, who in turn should ask them to help three more people and so on. Jai believes that this network will help develop a better attitude among the people but faces disappointment.

One day, Jai beats a rich man who injured a child beggar. To take revenge, the rich man employs some goons who take Jai's sister Geeta and friend Rinky (Daisy Shah) into their custody. Jai saves them and breaks the hand of a goon who happens to be the henchman of an MLA named Patil(Mukul Dev), who is also the son-in-law of Home Minister Dashrat Singh (Danny Denzongpa).

The Home Minister takes it as a prestige issue and tries to avenge Jai by kidnapping his nephew but loses his son-in-law (Mukul Dev) in the process. When the Chief Minister Ashok Pradhan (Mohnish Bahl) finds out about Jai's concept, he intervenes to bring in a patch-up between Jai and Dashrat Singh as his own life was saved by a school girl. Instead, Dashrat Singh plans to kill him and frame Jai in the murder. But Jai runs away with the injured Chief Minister and saves him. Dashrat Singh's son Arjun Singh (Haroon Qazi) along with his goons attack Jai. Jai kills him but gets severely injured after getting hit by a knife that was punched in his back by Dashrat's daughter Kavita Singh Patil (Sana Khan) before he killed Arjun. A rickshaw driver (Mahesh Manjrekar) and army officer and former colleague Arjun Kaul (Sunil Shetty) help him to get to the hospital. Meanwhile, Dashrat Singh spreads the rumour in the media that Jai was responsible for trying to kill the Chief Minister but finally the Chief Minister recovers and reveals the truth leading to a crowd beating Dashrat Singh. Finally, the doctors successfully save Jai. Jai comes to know that his help-three-people concept worked well and the same concept saved his life. He walks out of the hospital to find thousands of people waiting for him and he thanks them all for making his concept a success.

Cast

Development and promotion

In late 2012, Sohail Khan announced his intention to remake the Telugu film Stalin starring Chiranjeevi and Trisha.[9][10] Renaming it Mental, Sohail began to put the project into action. Shooting started on 27 February 2013 but was then postponed from February to March. Shooting began in late March 2013. The project was re-titled to Jai Ho. While there were rumors that the film would release in 3D formats, Sohail Khan said, "First, let me complete my film in the normal format. Then I'll take a call".[11] The first poster was unveiled by Salman Khan on 6 December 2013. It consists of a digitally merged image of thousands of fans rendering a portrait of Khan and was created by his fans.[12][13][14][15]

Critical reception

India Today gave the movie 2 out of 5, commenting that it was a rip off of Ek Tha Tiger with mindless action and Salman Khan show.[16] Anupama Chopra gave the movie 2.5 out of 5, wondering if it was even a film. She further lamented that it was more of a cartoon.[17] Taran Adarsh gave it 4.5 stars out of 5 and called it a "noble, well-intentioned message narrated in an entertaining format".[18]

Business

Jai Ho was released on around 3900 screens in India.[19] The domestic and overseas theatrical rights were sold for ₹1.10 billion (US$16 million).[20] Jai Ho had around ₹40 crore (US$5.9 million) spend on the production side.[21] The film cost around ₹65 crore (US$9.6 million), including marketing and prints but not including Khan's remuneration.[22][23] The film suffered losses from piracy, as a pirated print of the film was uploaded on YouTube by a Dubai-based user on January 28, 2014. The video had 108,151 views by the time it was removed from the video-sharing site on February 1. A better print of the film was uploaded on February 2.[24] DNA reported that Khan had requested that the ticket prices be kept at the minimum so that people could see the movie because of its message.[25]

Domestic box office

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 80—100%, 25—30% better than Dhoom 3 and Chennai Express, and moderately well (50%) at multiplexes of Delhi, Punjab, Bangalore and Kolkata.[26][27][28] It had an opening-day collection of around ₹188.0 million (US$2.8 million) nett.[29][30] The second day collections were about ₹165 million (US$2.4 million), taking the total to ₹335 million (US$4.9 million).[31] On Sunday, the film collected ₹262.5 million (US$3.9 million) to take its weekend total to ₹606.8 million (US$8.9 million).[32] 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 Rs 74 crore nett.[33] Jai Ho emerged as the fifth highest weekend of all time in terms of worldwide gross by managing to gross Rs 200 crore worldwide in three days.[34] Jai Ho dropped further on first Wednesday with collections around Rs 5.25-5.50 crore nett to take 6-day total to ₹79.50 crore (US$12 million).[35] Jai Ho had the ninth highest first week of all time as it grossed ₹81.72 crore (US$12 million) nett in its first week.[36][37] The film nett. grossed Rs 3 crore nett on its second Friday.[38] The film has collected Rs 90 crores nett in 9 days.[39] Jai Ho collected Rs 13.50 crore nett in its second weekend taking its domestic total 95 crore nett in 10 days.[40] Jai Hai has been made tax-free in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.[41][42][43][44] Jai Ho two week business was around Rs 101.50 crore nett as it crossed around Rs 21.29 crore nett in its second week.[45][46] Jai ho on its third Friday had collections set to be around Rs 50 lakhs nett,with tax exemption in Gujarat also.[47] Jai Ho grossed around Rs 2.25-2.50 crore nett in its third weekend taking the business to Rs 105.50 crore nett after seventeen days.[48] The two week distributor share of film is Rs 56 crore.[49] Jai Ho took its total to Rs 107 crore nett in after three weeks as it added around Rs 4 crore nett in third week.[50][51] Bollywoodhungama declared the total net gross of Jai Ho Rs. 116 crore, and ranked it the seventh highest grossing movie of 2014 and Salman Khan’s seventh 100 crore movie in a row, an all-time record in the history of Indian cinema.[52] It grossed 183 crore worldwide.[53]

Overseas

Bollywoodhungama estimated the first weekend overseas gross at $US3.55 million, while Box Office India estimated $3.45 million and called it "decent business".[54][55] The final overseas business of Jai Ho is US$6 million, thus making it one of the highest overseas grossing Bollywood films of 2014.[56][57][58]

Soundtrack

Jai Ho
Soundtrack album by
Released 24 December 2013
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length 39:45
Label T-Series
Producer Bhushan Kumar
Sajid–Wajid chronology
Bullett Raja
(2013)		 Jai Ho
(2014)		 Main Tera Hero
(2014)
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Veeram
(2014)
1: Nenokkadine
(2014)		 Jai Ho
(2014)		 Bramman
(2014)
Amaal Mallik chronology
Jai Ho
(2014)		 Khoobsurat
(2014)

The soundtrack of Jai Ho is composed by Sajid–Wajid (3 tracks), Devi Sri Prasad (1 track) and Amaal Mallik (3 tracks). The soundtrack was released on December 24, 2013, consisting of nine tracks.[59]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Sajid, Irfan Kamal, Danish Sabri, Sameer, Anjaan, Kausar Munir, Shabbir Ahmed, Armaan Malik and Devi Sri Prasad, all music composed by Sajid–Wajid, Devi Sri Prasad and Amaal Mallik.

Jai Ho
No. TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s) Length
1. "Baaki Sab First Class Hai"  Sajid, Irfan Kamal, Danish SabriSajid–WajidWajid 4:04
2. "Tere Naina Maar Hi Daalenge"  SameerSajid-WajidShreya Ghoshal, Shaan, Shabab Sabri 5:00
3. "Photocopy"  Kausar MunirSajid–WajidHimesh Reshammiya, Keerthi Sagathia, Palak Muchhal 4:36
4. "Tumko To Aana Hi Tha"  Shabbir AhmedAmaal MallikArmaan Malik, Marianne D'Cruz, Altamash Faridi 4:13
5. "Love You Till The End (House Mix)"  Armaan MalikAmaal MallikArmaan Malik 3:56
6. "Naacho Re"  Devi Sri PrasadDevi Sri PrasadUjjayinee Roy 2:27
7. "Jai Jai Jai Jai Ho (Title Track)"  Shabbir AhmedAmaal MallikWajid, Armaan Malik 3:20
8. "Photocopy (Remix)"  Kausar MunirSajid–WajidHimesh Reshammiya, Keerthi Sagathia, Palak Muchhal 3:53
9. "Baaki Sab First Class Hai (Remix)"  Sajid, Irfan Kamal, Danish SabriSajid–WajidWajid 2:47
Total length:
 39:45

See also

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