Netflix’s newly released movie ‘Jaane Jaan’ is not only a mystery thriller but the movie is also an OTT debut for Bollywood Bebo Kareena Kapoor Khan.
An official adaptation of the famous novel ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ by Keigo Higashino, the movie besides Kapoor, also stars Jaideep Ahlawat, and Vijay Varma.
Spoiler alert!
‘Jaane Jaan’ is a story about a woman named Maya who owns a cafe and lives with her 14-year-old daughter. She is admired by her neighbour Naren who is a mathematician and seemingly likes Maya but no one knows that the below-average-looking neighbour cum mathematician genius is a stalker of her own neighbour.
The story seems pretty simple here untill one day Maya encounters her estranged husband whom she left years ago. The husband who is a cop by profession blackmails Maya for the money she had stolen from him before leaving him.
Long story short, after one and another series of unfortunate events, her husband is dead and just when Maya says to her daughter that she will confess that she killed her husband, Naren shows up and decides to help Maya.
From here, things take quite interesting turns from hiding the body to meeting another investigative officer who turns out to be a childhood school friend of the math teacher.
Jaane Jaan offers a variety of twists and turns but skipping to the end, the story of both the teacher and Maya who claim that she did not know that Naren used to listen to her conversations through their wall to the neghbouring claiming it was Maya who made her to the murder, the audience were confused about two things; if the body which the cops found as evidence was not of Maya’s husband then where the body is? And did Maya really manipulate Naren to cover the murder for her?
Did Maya really manipulate Naren, the teacher/neighbour?
I don’t think so, in one of the film’s initial shots, we see Maya knocking on Naren’s door, asking for a plumber’s contact when he is contemplating taking his own life because of wasting years of his life to solve a math problem that someone was able to do only two days before him.
Her knock at the door somehow saved him, and he felt like his life was indebted to her. Despite how he looked, her unchanged kindness and empathy towards him made Naren take such a huge step, especially when she was the reason he stopped himself from committing suicide. Since she saved his life, he somehow felt obliged to save Maya so she along with her daughter led the life they deserved.
The movie is streaming on Netflix.
