I approached Jung with great hesitation what with it being a Sanjay Gupta "original" and yet a total, shall we say "adaptation" of desperate measures...I mean, what was there to look forward to...a weepy Raveena, a tarty Shilpa, a forlorn Jackie and Sanjay Dutt in his oft repeated role of baddie who's actually pretty OK.

Well, with all of this heaped against it ( some would say in its favour!), I sat through JUNG. And it wasn't so dreadful after all. I guess that had to happen...with expectations at rock bottom, one really is content with anything that is even semi decent. Not that Jung has the quality of being semi decent...that would be praise it is not worthy of. But it tries to offer the audience a slick and rollercoaster ride which it sadly does not sustain.

The film opens with the parents of a child finding out that the child has leukemia. Cut to romantic song with child. The cop father (Jackie Shroff) is told that the only one with a bone marrow match is the awfully evil and very much incarcerated Balli. And guess who was responsible for his incarceration...you guessed it...Jackie Shroff. This is too much for the father to bear as he cannot accept his son having the blood of a criminal...but wife makes him see sense and he begs the nasty Balli to donate his marrow...which he refuses at first but then sees it as a chance to escape.

He does escape and now the race is on...the father has to arrest him alive so that he can donate his marrow for his son before another cop (Aditya Pancholi), a complete nutcase who shoots villains at random and certainly is more evil than the villainous Balli gets to him!

Balli escapes into the arms of his beloved Shilpa Shetty playing the sexy moll with a conscience (but of course!). Up until this point, the film packs quite a punch and races a long at a blistering pace. But when Balli is double-crossed by his colleague in his dark and murky world, it is time for him to take revenge...so the film then goes off the rails.

I guess they had to fill three hours and did not have enough of a story lines this added revenge bit is thrown in. Proceedings are further stayed when we have a blast of three songs almost all at once and the film then becomes a huge yawn.

Sanjay Dutt had warned his fans not to see this film as there had been a fallout between the producer and director and he claimed that the film was not complete and that his dubbing etc. remained incomplete. Well, I certainly couldn't tell the difference and the film seemed quite complete to me. And Sanjay Dutt is quite good in it except that his character doesn't really gel. He is meant to be this dreadful feared villain who then hangs out with his cronie (Neeraj Vohra...only known for his comedy turns) and things take a lighter turn.

Jackie doesn't have much of a role and doesn't do much with it either. Raveena is better and makes more of an impression. The nasal wonder AKA Shilpa Shetty is slinky, looks better than she has before and this should be a shot in the arm for her. Music is pretty dire...the less there was in it, the better it would have been for the film. The film has a hit song in "aaila re" sung by Anu Malik himself...does this mean that he will now sing more now. I hope to God not. ...