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Jhoom Barbar Jhoom has been released last Friday. Produced by Aditya Chopra, the movie has got all the masalas of typical Bollywood commercial movies: beautiful NRI setting, big stars like Abhishek, Amitabh, Preity, great outdoor sceneries, and last but not the least, sizzling songs.  The title song of the movie, “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom,” has been shown in the promo and people liked it. Amitabh Bachchan performed in the song. The best place to know about the movie is the official website. So in this post I bring you a review of the official website of Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.   

The official website of Jhoom Barabar Jhoom focuses on the main feature of the movie; JBJ is big and it is glamorous!! You can log into the website from the website of Yash Raj Films. This page contains the trailer of the film. For your convenience, I am giving the link of JBJ official website. The background music and the flash player works evoke a feeling of excitement in the mind of the viewer. The website contains following sections

Synopsis:
This section contains a mini-synopsis of the movie. Rikki (Abhishek Bachchan) and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta) stumble upon each other at London station while picking up their fiancé. From there the movie starts and takes various twists and turns.

Cast:
This section contains all the details about the four main characters of the movie: Rikki Thukral (Abhishek Bachchan), Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta), Anaida (Lara Dutta), Steve Singh (Bobby Deol).

Music:
This section contains all the seven songs of the movie. The best thing is you can listen to the first two/three minutes of each of the song. It is like a demo.

Promos:
You can see a two minutes promotional video of the movie. There is another link which would take you to another webpage containing three promotional video of the movie. 

Downloads:
You will find 36 pictures available in three different sizes- 1280 by 1024, 1024 by 768 and800 by 600. You can use the pictures as desktop wallpapers. To download click on the picture and the larger version open up in a new window.

Credits:
You will get a list of the names of the people involved in making the film.

Overall, the website is cool. It exhibits the energy and glamour of the film. The back ground music, the flash player, everything is fine. However, if your net speed is slow then it would take a long time for the pages to upload and some times the webpages do not work properly. In that case, you have to log into the website again and then go to the respective page.