M MALIK i love Bobby Deol he is a great actor better then anyone in Indian cinema i have ever seen when it comes to serious acting this man surpasses everyone he can outclass any Hollywood actor i say since 90s when i was a kid i became a fan & watched almost his every movie there are some that i have missed but the main thing is the music is best always in his films regardless of the film being remembered.this film came in 2005 but i recently saw it again Vikram Bhatt directed this Vikram is actually my most favorite director in the world the way he tells his stories are amazing the guy is underrated.the plot:Avinash is a rich guy who gets married to Sanjana they start to live a happy life but after some time Avinash suspects Sanjana is having an affair and she is hiding some secrets one day he drinks to much the next morning he wakes up only to find out that his wife has been murdered,all evidence goes against him Avinash gets into a deep mess he gets arrested & gets a life time in prison how will he find out who set him up the answer is in this film.the cast:Bobby Deol looks awesome giving another best performance as always,Gul Panag looks lovely but Lara Dutta is a main highlight here she plays a negative role a evil villain along with Milind Soman.the story is not new its been done before in Hollywood and many other TV shows and worldwide you know people cheat each other for money the problem is its unnecessary lengthy for no reason editing was required at a lot of places but another bonus is the music all songs are nice but one song is my favorite O Sanam O Sanam.to put it simply if you are looking for something nice from Bollywood try Jurm a.k.a Once Upon A Crime 2005,my rating is 5/10.

elshikh4 Here The Fugitive meets Double Jeopardy, and of course – since it's an Indian movie – The Count of Monte Cristo !The final outcome is entertaining yes, except for some matters. To instance : the point of providing a corpse for the police was passed by as trivial ! The absolute trust in the taxi deriver for nothing but being an Indian ?! Then how that driver helps the lead out at "killing" without any objections ?!! Look how the lead turns into Neo from the Matrix at the end, beating up 100 men solely. Or how his enemy runs from the law without even changing his name? Sure naiveties like that make me angry, and the movie crack !However the biggest bothering point was the violent solution. The way this lead chooses KILLING FOR ALL provokes me. I recall another Indian Count of Monte Cristo (Dharmendra in Jeevan Mrityu "1970") where he didn't get to kill anybody. But after 35 years, we moved from too-shy-to-kill heroes to ruthless insatiable killing machines ?! I don't know, maybe things had changed to bloody? Maybe being a monster brings more money? Or maybe, the audience suffers in their lives tough problems that need to be cured, in unreal way, by only a sadistic slaughter ! The direction is beautiful. I loved how everything is intensified. And the cadres did amuse me. Utilizing the dazzling locations of Malaysia was big part of the movie's clever entertainment. The editing was fast yet sane. It managed to be sad, breathless and surprising. (Meri Chahato Ka Samudar), performed by Abhijeet & Alka Yagnik, is one in a million song. And the manner it was used is brilliant; see how it differs according to the feel of the situation it expresses; that deepened the effect, brought some peculiarity, and most of all was lovely to listen.Unlike similar Indian fares this one has no problems at acting. (Lara Dutta) was pretty and talented too. (Milind Soman) portrayed a stereotype evil man capably. After being the loving friend he tuned into the mean opponent, and all the difference was taking off the glasses and showing off some acting muscles. Well, it's very rare to watch someone from a younger generation succeed as the same as the classic Indian cinema's kings of evil. (Bobby Deol) reminded me of (Dharmendra), as a sedate loving type of a lead. He was convincing whether as angry husband, sad prisoner, backstabbed lover or gritty avenger. His performance reached the top while seeing his wife live again and in the arms of his once-sincere then-disloyal friend. He did his entire job seriously, until the matrix reloaded started abruptly! (Gul Panag) wasn't that pretty, but – interestingly – her character seemed agreed with the lead's violence and bloody revenge, in another movie she would have been his conscience, rationality, etc.. but here, she wasn't. Here's a mix of many movies, but boy, did it work? It's watchable rather captivating twisted-crime-movie. I just didn't feel comfortable with the revenge celebration of the third act. The thing is its blood seemed too much for me, especially when the lead got away with it eventually, winning a true love as well; as if it's a reward he wouldn't deserve without a massacre first !

springsunnywinter A terrific crime thriller from a great director Vikram Bhatt. The whole film is charged with unpredictable heart pounding suspense. It is a bit similar to "The Fugitive" but "Jurm" is 1000 times better. At the start there were so many questions like "Did he kill his wife?", "If he didn't then who is the killer?", "Why is she murdered?" and "Is she even alive?" all of them were answered very properly with many twists & turns. Bobby Deol, Milind Soman and Gul Panag were the best, Lara Dutta was OK but I really found her funny every time she was scared especially when she was running up the stairs with her shopping bags. Songs are excellent the best song is the very first one "Nazarein teri nazarein" sung by Adnan Sami. When Avinash found out that his wife is alive and she was with Rohit the whole time he took is revenge in a very cleaver way, exactly 200% like what they did to him. The best scene in the film is the last song "Dil dil haye" when they were wearing scary masks.

Moi-me "Jurm" is a film which is supposed to be a thriller, without actually being one. The film is very easy to predict, and lacks of suspense. Even though the film begins promising, it completely fails and falls in level afterwards. Vikram Bhatt is not able to maintain the suspense through out the film. The main problem with "Jurm" is that it has absolutely nothing new to offer. What you see has been seen several times before. On the top of that the chemistry between the actors is miserable as well. This is one of the few films where even Bobby Deol isn't able to play his part with conviction. Lara Dutta proves that being beautiful and sexy doesn't necessarily mean that you can act. Thank you! Gul Panag hasn't got much to do in the film. Milind Soman plays extremely artificially, and falls flat in front of Bobby Deol, in spite the fact that he is not playing well either. It is truly sad to see an actor of Ashish Vidyarthi's calibre to choose such a low level film, where he doesn't get the chance to play even 10% of what he is capable of."Jurm" is a terrible film with terrible acting and has nothing new to offer. This one doesn't even qualify as being a time-pass movie.