What is the metric to measure the extent one can go for their loved ones? Violence? Yeah, probably it is. At least in a cinematic sense. Alia Bhatt plays the alpha-sister who can go to any extent to bring back her brother from the prison, who has been wrongfully accused of drug possession in Hanshi Dao, a fictional country resembling the features of North Korea- without making it obvious.
Alia Bhatt plays Sathyabhama Anand with the weights of trauma from the past. But, she doesn’t let her darkness take over her. She is introduced to us as a go-getter. She is not a perfectionist, but she likes to do things her way because she feels that she knows what is the best for the people around her. This makes her a replacement for her dead-dad to her brother. So, the Jigra is all about what is the extent this sister can go for her brother.
Alia Bhatt is slowly turning into a power-house performer with her roles. Her acting skills and nuanced maturity in playing such an emotion-heavy role. Rahul Ravindran as a retired cop embodies the moral dilemma of institutional injustice and the extremities that Sathya tends to climb up for her brother’s freedom. He did a fairly good job that is needed for the role, nothing spectacular. The surprising appreciable factor of Jigra is Vedang Raina. He does get a few scenes where the loud-cry happens for us to appreciate the standard scenes through which we stereotypically appreciate the acting through their authentic convincibility of their tears.
Music composed by Achint Thakkar, the Scam 1992 fame, doesn’t set the flames, but the moment the retro rendition of Phoolon ka Taaron ka song plays out the emotion is uplifted multiple times. The choice of making old Amithabh Bachchan songs adds it to the gloomy mood of the cinema.
Vasan Bala had made a beautiful emotional roller-ride powered with powerful performances of Alia Bhatt and Vedang Raina.
Rating – 3/5
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