Jaane Jaan (2023) on Netflix
Single mother Maya D'Souza runs a cafeteria in Kalimpong and raises her daughter Tara. Her estranged husband Ajit comes to extort money, and their neighbor, math teacher Naren Vyas, offers help.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.0/1017,088 votes
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Plot summary
Naren Vyas is a reserved, brilliant mathematics teacher in Kalimpong who lives next door to Maya D'Souza and her teenage daughter Tara, buys his lunch at Maya's cafeteria, and is well liked by his students. Maya's estranged husband Ajit, a corrupt policeman she fled fourteen years earlier, turns up one night to demand the money she took with her, threatening her and Tara. The confrontation turns violent. Naren hears the commotion, works out what has happened, and offers the mother and daughter his help, getting rid of the evidence and planning their account of the night step by step. Inspector Karan Anand, an old classmate of Naren's, is given the task of tracing the missing Ajit, and the search brings him to Kalimpong.
Cast
- Karma Takapaas Sundar
- Suhita Thatteas Paradise Owner
- Markush Lepchaas Dipok
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jaane Jaan (2023)
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- Sujoy Ghosh began working on the Jaane Jaan script in 2015 and wanted Saif Ali Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to be cast, but the project was shelved.
- Jaane Jaan broke the record for the biggest opening weekend viewership for an Indian film on Netflix, drawing 18.8 million viewing hours from 8.1 million views.
- For the title track, the composer duo Sachin-Jigar recreated "Aa Jaane Jaan" from the 1969 film Intaqam, with Neha Kakkar singing the new version, and visuals from the original were reused in the film.
- Jaideep Ahlawat said he was about to refuse his role in Jaane Jaan, as he revealed in an interview with The Indian Express.
