‘Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai’ is a directorial debut of Keshhav Panneriy featuring Arbaaz Khan, Ashutosh Rana, Himansh Kohli, Manjari Phadnis and Rati Agnihotri. The story revolves around a girl Alia Patrick (Manjari) who is treated like a nobody by her factory working Catholic father. She is forced to marry a royal man Vikram Pratap Singh (Ashutosh) but she eventually leaves the palace and divorces him. She decides to leave Rajasthan and settles down in Mumbai, where Aditya Kapoor (Arbaaz) who loves her like anything and also is ready to accept her abandoned child from her previous marriage. An utter scriptless bundle of confusion is what we can say about ‘Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai’. You will get many hints of leaving the theatre, and if you fail to listen to these hints, well, your fault because watching such a boring film for a long 3 hours is pretty punishable. Go for the film only if you are a die-hard supporter of feminism and you give a damn about the script, or else you’re compelled to watch the film at a gunpoint.

Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai is more an endurance test, a lumbering mess that wanders all over the place both literally and figuratively, hobbling along in no particular direction. That it gets nowhere is no surprise. About the only thing that stands out in Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai is its punishing length. It's a 170-minute script-less blunder into which director Keshav Panneriy packs everything that he knows about India and the world. The film doesn't tire. The audience does. If there is anything in Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai that is worse than the scrappy screenplay, it is the sloppy acting. One half of the unruly cast shrieks and hollers in the hope of being heard above the din; the other gropes about in the dark to figure out what they are supposed to be up to in this monumental mess of a movie. Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai is vapid, vacuous fare. It has no ups, only hiccups. As the tale unfolds, the sequences get longer and longer and common sense becomes scarcer and scarcer. The dialogue is cringe-worthily stilted and the actors, as has already been noted, spare no effort to make the lines sound even worse than they are on paper. The film is indeed both lambi and a ladaai. If there is anything at all that draws you to Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai, be prepared for a gruelling time. The film will rob you of three hours of your life and give you absolutely nothing back in return.