She’s particularly good in the scenes she shares with Shabana Azmi. Her performance as a confident lawyer but vulnerable mother is fantastic. The film steams up some good thrills and then throws a bucket full of sentimentality over them and douses them out.Īs the film loses pace, you can see Aishwarya clutching at the straws in an honest attempt to rise above the situation. The climax, which involves around an allegory of the immolation of Ravan on Dussera, is just terrible. It’s 2015 and using language that seemed jarring 30 years ago is not a good idea. And then you have to contend with words like bachha girado and nangi ungliyan.

Irrfan’s character’s derring-do seem out of place. There are one liners you'd usually save for larger than life characters in masala movies. Things go awry when these believable characters start speaking like potboiler clichés. You have a bevy of grey characters each with skeletons in the closet. And then you have the twist on the action hero with Irrfan Khan playing a heroic cop who doesn’t mind taking bribe. But then she has to contend with the mother of the victim, played by Shabana Azmi. So you have a mother forced to defend a guilty criminal to save her daughter. The case in point involves the rape and murder of a young girl. Things become very dramatic when Anuradha’s daughter is kidnapped and her captor forces Anuradha to defend a man slated for death penalty. She wins every case and her firm doesn’t mind hiring clients with chequered credentials. It's trying too hard to be an angry young woman’s action thriller.Īishwarya Rai Bachchan is introduced as a wily lawyer Anuradha Verma who puts aside emotions and morals when she's in the courtroom.

It's unnecessarily dramatic in scenes that should’ve been subtle. Pity then, it’s presented with such blatant use of cinematic formula. So Jazbaa and its themes of law and order, crimes against women and motherhood being sacrosanct are largely relevant. The country is really clued into the ideas. Talvar based on the Arushi murder case just released, the Sheena Bora murder case too is currently in the headlines. The atmosphere is charged with conversations of murder, morality and crimes against kin. Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi, Jackie Shroff, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Atul Kulkarni, Siddhanth Kapoor, Priya Banerjee

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