Jai Gangaajal doesn’t offer anything you haven’t seen before, especially in the director’s own previous films. It’s also interminably long at nearly 2 hours and 40 minutes. Priyanka Chopra and Prakash Jha’s performances keep you engaged and invested despite the familiar narrative, but by the end you’re overcome by the unmistakable feeling of exhaustion.

Priyanka Chopra’s too-sophisticated unmade-up-make-up is very distracting, even in her few convincing moments. And the film goes on for far too long, even when we know how all of it will end.

Jai Gangaajal is just another attempt at making a blockbuster, but it lacks the depth of Gangaajal and Apharan. Still, there’s enough for the audience to keep whistling and clapping. Priyanka Chopra is the new ‘Dabangg’.

Once Jai GangaaJal loses sight of all else to become only about his half-baked atonement it drags and dodders from the weight of its stocky dialogues, tediously cosmetic revolt and a leading man of very limited screen presence hogging all the limelight. 

Jai Gangaajal is likely to be a letdown for those who expect it to be a worthy follow-up to Gangaajal.

But if you go in without too many expectations, you might find parts of its fairly palatable.

While PC plays a strong character, we can’t say that the film has either – strength or character. It’s contrived, a little too long for our liking and dragged out. Watch this only if you are a PC fan.

At the end of the day, Priyanka Chopra’s Abha Mathur does offer a role model to many, but the reality too is too clear: A happy ending is but make-believe in the hinterlands of the country. Watch Jai Gangaajal for Priyanka Chopra.

Jai Gangaajal falters plot-wise, tries to balance it out with performances yet fails to create the right impact.

There’s much maara-mari, draamebazi before the film culminates the way you expected it to.

From a Prakash Jha, much was expected.

Jai Gangaajal lacks the kind of raw emotion or grittiness that his earlier works like Mrityudand and Damul possessed. Rajneeti was a casting coup wasted, Aarakshan dragged, Satyagraha was simplistic and so on! For some time now, we have failed to see this champion of political drama making a layered film that we know he is actually capable of.

Overall, Jai Gangaajal is totally skippable. 

If you liked the original Ganga Jal, then maybe you should stay at home and watch the DVD. The story is the same as the original but diluted. And even though Priyanka Chopra tries her best to kick some baddie butts, she’s reduced to sitting by the hero’s bedside, eyes wide, saying, ‘How did you manage to keep these files so secret, for so long?!’

…just a series of relentless, supposedly crowd-pleasing hyperbole. And so something big does happen in this picture. It should command your attention. The film is centred on it. But you know what? You don’t care. When so much happens, why would you care if anything is happening at all.

‘Jai Gangaaja’ triumphs, but sadly, only at places – at other times you are inevitably reminded of ‘Gangaajal’, only wishing if the movie had the same flesh and rawness as the one before. That said, watch ‘Jai Gangaajal’ merely for its performance by Jha and Chopra and some of the other supporting cast. As far as the story is concerned – it’s the same old wine in new bottle.

After having watched Mrityudand, Gangaajal, Raajneeti, it is easy to say that this is one of Jha’s weaker projects. Perhaps, if he could have focused more on the screenplay than on making it a launchpad for himself, this could have been a better film. Watch it only for Priyanka Chopra, but then you might end up feeling sorry for her! After Quantico, Oscars and Baywatch reboot, she deserved much much better!

Jai Gangaajal is crammed with issues such as corporate greed, debt-ridden farms, lawless cities and frustrated civilians, but there’s no particular direction to all that chaos.

If you are a Chopra fan and would love to see her kick bad guys into submission, then give this film a shot. Otherwise, skip it.

‘Jai Gangaajal’ fails to live up to the expectations and remains miles behind its prequel. Looking like a rehashed version of the similar kind of films, it can only be watched for Priyanka Chopra’s ‘dabangg’ cop avatar.

Those who are planning to give it a shot as it’s a Prakash Jha film, please do not commit that mistake. As this film lacks all the good points, which are usually unique to a Prakash Jha film. So, you can easily skip this one! P.S. If you are a PeeCee fan, go ahead!

If someone from the film deserves to be applauded, besides Priyanka, it is Manav Kaul. He is fantastic and together, they manage to make the film watchable. But Jai Gangaajal doesn’t merit being applauded. It lacks holistic understanding and is something you would watch on TV on Republic Day.

The fortunate thing about Jai Gangaajal is that its politics is a bit more generic and easier to decode than Jha’s previous efforts. But the unfortunate part is that it’s just another 158-minute long Prakash Jha movie.