Jal (2013) watch online HD

Saw this movie at IFFI, Goa and was really blown away. Here is a film that sets new standards for Indian cinema and makes me feel proud. Great VFX, amazing concept, superb drama, and based on a real problem.What sets it apart is how it balances so beautifully the entertainment with the real issues of environment and water scarcity. At no point does it get preachy. You feel a real connection with the place and the people and get emotionally involved with the film. It's thoroughly entertaining and makes you laugh and cry and yet when the film ends the message is loud and clear. It makes you realize the importance of water in a very real and personal way. The emotional impact is so huge that I could not get myself to waste water after I came back from watching the film. I will definitely look forward to the future works of this director. Apart from the beautiful story, the visuals and background music are the other strong points of the film. The visuals are mind-blowing and simply stunning. The background music is very nuanced and beyond anything you could hope to hear in Indian Films. It's really world class and comparable to the best in International cinema. This film is such a breath of fresh air compared to the commercial crass or the pretentious so called intellectual cinema.

Watched movie JAL today.

I was having very less expectations from it but heard that its good and seem to watch once when i had seen its trailer, but after watching it made me to write a review about it.. I think this movie took Bollywood to another heights.

Acting, Cinematography, Script, Screenplay, Music everything was too good. Background score and its lyrics was written by sonu nigam & one other guy. Yup u heard right. its sonu nigam and he did superb job.

Before interval it has everything, Romance, Fun, Drama and after interval movie geared up. I like how the movie ended and set a punch in climax. Purab kohli, Tanistha chatterjee, Kirti kulhari, were perfect in their roles.

I think everyone who likes to watch some different and really appealing quality movie should watch this one.

My rating - 4.1/5

I would actually rate JAL a 10 if only this terribly tragic O'Henry - esque tale had been shown better. Not sure where the fault lies because the plot is great, the visuals are fantastic, the acting good, the settings more than superb.

Everything was great but the tragedy that plays out in the latter half just does not come through tragically enough - for want of a better choice of words.

If Kutch Tourism needs a boost, then it should screen Jal on TV often enough. I saw this today on YouTube after having seen Parched yesterday which is also set in Kutch, with Tannishtha Chatterjee aptly portraying the key female role in both films. I saw the Jal movie on the same YouTube page as Parched and decided to watch Jal today.

Must say that in both films Tanishtha could easily pass off as a Kutchi village woman. Great job, she surely deserves to be given more films in Bollywood. The scene where she offers herself to the villain Punia to save Bakka's heavily pregnant wife from being raped, is outstanding and superbly filmed in an understated manner that nonetheless conveys it all.

The cinematography is fantastic, beautifully showcasing the mud hut villages, the starkly beautiful arid desertscapes, the flamingoes, the camels, the people, the parched land, the essence of Kutch, it all looks so real.

The twist in the tale O'Henry ending is also superb. This is a movie where the real villain laughs all the way to the bank while the real hero and the real heroine go nowhere.

Overall, this is a must watch film and not just for the Kutch visuals.

I was so excited to go and watch a film on Water at an environmental film festival. But was very disappointed with the film. The director is totally lost in his approach. he has brought in cheap slap stick humour, sleaze, skin and crude jokes in the film. I am sorry to say that I could not sit through the film and walked out midway. It was such a sensitive subject, but very crudely handled. Tanishtha looked HOT, and Poorab did a good job. Imagine calling an actress hot for a film with an environmental message. The editing was sad, and very patchy. The songs are put in out of context. Very Good Cinematography is a saving grace. The colours of Gujarat Deserts come out very well on the camera

It's really tough to critically analyze a film like JAL which certainly is one of the most beautifully shot Hindi projects, bringing to you the picturesque visuals of a difficult location of Rann of Kutch impressively and also talks about a thoughtful subject woven around the scarcity of water (Jal) in the region. The film has undoubtedly been made with a great amount of courage, pain and discomfort suffered by the entire team shooting in that painstaking location of Kutch, like no other film till date. And with few highly believable performances, it surely remains an achievement of a sort in film-making too considering the extreme situations of its on-location shoot and more.

But then why it is tough to write about such a well-crafted movie? Unfortunately that is so because despite having all the technical merits, JAL fails to express any specific purpose or idea to its target audience in any form. It neither comes out as a thought provoking cinema made with an appreciable concern nor is able to make any kind of emotional connect with the viewers as required. Moreover the director quite uselessly goes on to add many sexual references and deliberate skin show too in an otherwise decent story progression which confuses the viewer further about the film's actual aim.

In addition many immature insertions bring it down to the mediocre level after a while, like the fresh facial make-up of Purab playing a hard core villager in the desert, Purab wearing jeans, T-shirt in one scene and again the villager's dress in the next without any kind of reasoning given, the silly or unexplainable hiding of all jewels in a pit dug in a barren land with a clear mark on it by a person who is intelligent enough to get a government job, the bizarre idea of buying the big machine which is owned by the government without thinking about the cost of fuel required to use it, over the top finesse in the art direction and then the cheap comedy thrown in just to cater the commercial needs of the project with all those disgusting remarks made on the foreigner lady.

The long first half of the film saying nothing about its actual storyline plays with your patience level quite carelessly and then all the western sounds used in its background score (of a film made on a rural setup) force you to re-think about all the festival logos displayed on its publicity posters.

In simple words, JAL begins with the Camera leading it from the front and the Cinematography continues to remain the only worth watching feature of the film right till the end. The interesting ensemble of actors like Purab Kohli, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Kirti Kulhari, Mukul Dev, Yashpal Sharma, Ravi Gossain, Rahul Singhand the old man Habib Azmi try their best to give something extra to the project doing the hard work sincerely. But actually its not the actors or the technical team which is to be blamed here for the end result not reaching out to the viewers as it should have. Instead it's the director Girish Malik and his writers who are the main game spoilers here as they miss out a unique opportunity to make an exceptional never before kind of Hindi film with an interesting and great story idea. So even if the film might have won praises in several festival circuits as quoted, for me it didn't have any of those remarkable sensibilities usually seen in all the festival movies.

Still there are two reasons, why I cannot straight away slam the movie just like another Friday release as stated below.

Firstly JAL does come up as a rare visual delight canning the deserted stretch and scorched land of Rann of Kutch like never before witnessed on the screen for such a long length (more than two hours). Yes, a better script surely could have made this spectacular achievement work in a much brighter way but that doesn't take away any credit from the DoP Sunita Radia as the talented master behind the camera.

Secondly JAL talks about two interesting novel story ideas which is one thing, Hindi Cinema is desperately looking for in the current times. The first plot revolves around the tussle between human ability of finding the water in the desert by their traditional ways verses the big machine looking for the same with all the advanced equipment. And the other raises a very important question that whether water is required more essentially for the visiting foreign birds in a specific season or for the dying dehydrated people living in the villages in the same region.

Unfortunately, the film fails to emphasis any of the above plots with a complete focus as it should have and thus remains a mostly lost or confused attempt made on these two great social thoughts with a splendid cinematography. So with a heavy heart I am forced to give only average ratings to this fine attempt largely gone wrong and you can still go for it if you are solely interested in watching some dazzling camera-work alone brilliantly capturing the Rann of Kutch.

This film is meaningful but it probably won't work out nowadays....people want stuff for entertainment nowadays..action, masala, etc.

Jal is the story of a diviner who helps the govt drill borewells to provide water for his village in Kutch, a place where water is so scarce that neighboring villages are always at loggerheads for it. But then things turn out bad because of greed.

It has a great concept but like I said, social films seldom do well.Maybe it's made just for awards, I donno...location is good, there is natural acting, you feel you're in the place itself seeing all the happenings. Songs are just OK according to me. Purab acts well, not like a modern young man that he usually acts as in films. This one is contemporary.

Should be worth a watch