It’s a heist film with good production values but lack of a coherent plot dampens the overall impact. Critic's rating 2.5/5 A gangster-businessman, Rajan Aulakh (Jaideep Ahlawat), hires a con-artist ...

The Saif Ali Khan-Jaideep Ahlawat-starrer, which dropped on Netflix, has all of the above ingredients. Minus the fun.

Dev Anand’s Jewel Thief (1967), maybe it's time to give that a watch and see if it has stood the test of time.

P.S. - Considering the title of the film is a nod to Vijay Anand’s 1967 classic Jewel Thief starring Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala and Ashok Kumar, there is a not-so-subtle tribute to the original ...

This sub-plot is as pointless in Jewel Thief as are comparisons with Vijay Anand’s identically titled classic from 1967. The 2025 Jewel Thief is more like an Abbas-Mustan movie, but without the ...

JEWEL THIEF - THE HEIST BEGINS is the story of a perfect crime. Rehan Roy (Saif Ali Khan), an expert jewel thief, is in hiding in Budapest. He has purposely chosen the Hungarian capital as India ...

I wish the same could be said about Jewel Thief—The Heist Begins ... and predictable—even its title is borrowed from the 1967 Vijay Anand classic. But what’s truly unexpected is the audacity ...

First off, the title, Jewel Thief: The Heist Begins, is the most Netflix-ass boring generic thing in a growing library of Netflix-ass boring generic things on Netflix. It’s five words strung ...

Otherwise, this Jewel Thief has no connection with the 1967 film, which remains a perfect soufflé of a thriller. It’s cute that the makers thought this might be a franchise; the full title is ...

PS: If you don’t mind a bit of nostalgia, try and watch the original Jewel Thief, the 1967 Dev Anand classic that had all the elements of a superbly crafted spy heist thriller with incredible ...