Jhund movie written and direct by Nagraj Manjule. Bollywood super star Amitabh Bachchan cast as main artist. The story of the movie based on retired sport teacher. He work for soccer and build a soccer team from streets of Naagpur.
Major Cast
Amitabh Bachchan , Ankush Gedman , Babu Kshatriya , Jercio Robert , Rajiya Qazi , Kartik Uikey , Sayli Patil
Genres
Biography , drama and sport
Release date
4 march 2022
Country
India , Asia
Language
Hindi
Production company
UTV motion picture
Story
Recently vaikunt in
the uncaused anthology nagaraj has created a signature brand of searing
provocative. cinema his films confront
caste and social inequity with both
anger and a harrowing poetry case in
point the last short of sideart the
image of a toddler crying orphaned
because his parents who dared to love
across cast lines have been brutally
murdered is relentlessly haunting nagraj is aiming for wider appeal it's the first time he's working with a star amitabh bachchan the story is less confrontational and more uplifting though the film begins with the disclaimer that it is fiction the narrative is loosely based on the life of vijay garcia the founder of slum soccer jund is the story of how vijay changes the lives of dalit youngsters in a nagpur slum by getting them hooked on football
the sport slowly weans them away from
criminality drugs violence and gives
them hope of a better tomorrow
it's a rousing tale told with a stellar
cast of professional and
non-professional actors you will
recognize many faces from sarat here
including akash dosar rinku the
standouts are the non-pros ankus gedam
as ankush masram also called dawn babu shatriya
yogesh these actors aren't acting
they're being their performances are
entirely unvarnished there's a rawness
in their craft and a guidelessness on
their faces that makes their characters
hard scrabble lives even more affecting there's a terrific scene in which vijay is sitting in his living room with his rag tag team and talking babu says casually that this is the first time anyone has shown any interest in their lives he says but without any visible ranker
it's a sentiment repeated in the title
song written by ajay atul the
lyrics vijay and football give them the
rare moment when they feel seen nagraj has a great talent for seeing these marginalized characters his frames offer a bottom-up exploration of these lives from the tiny shanties framed from overhead and drone shots to the flamboyant colored hair that seems like an assertion and call for attention in an indifferent world there are several scenes here that have power and poetry dawn and his crew's frustration fury and self-destructive streak is tragically palpable there is this heartbreaking shot in which dawn is sitting in this large abandoned go down weeping loudly because his life has hit a dead end this is a young man hobbled by a crippling lack of opportunity and a system designed to keep him in his place a wall emphasizing the class divide stands between the slum and the outside world don and his friends must overcome this literal wall and the metaphorical ones on a daily basis nagaraj's storytelling is greatly enhanced by ajayatul's furious pulsating music aya jundhe and latmar are a raucous war cry there are many many stretches that saw and yet jun doesn't match the blistering excellence of nagraj's earlier films for starters there is the nearly three hour long run time sairat also clocked in at 2 hours and 54 minutes but nagraj exerting a masterly grip on the narrative never allowed our attention to wander here his focus seems to be a little scattered the screenplay juggles between establishing too many characters who inevitably suffer from sketchy writing there's a young muslim wife and mother who loves to play football vijay's son who's at first annoyed by his father's generosity but then suddenly has a change of heart a security guard who turns out to be a solid player intriguingly despite the bladder bursting duration the film doesn't seem to have enough time to pause and let us soak in the events or the emotions a character dies this bit is wonderfully staged but the story quickly moves on to the next scene of course life in these mean streets is nasty brutish and short but the screenplay doesn't allow the audience to fully process the tragedy of this some of the character arcs are overtly simplistic one man's life is literally saved by football the sport helps him to stave off his suicidal tendencies but again we have little sense of who he is or what has brought him to this point there's also highly unconvincing flirtation between dawn and a girl who comes to college in a mercedes these formulaic hindi film touches flatten out nagraj's distinctive voice jun also struggles to blend in the towering persona of amitabh bachchan into its more documentary style aesthetic nagraj and his terrific dop sudhakar reddy yakanti are going for gritty realism and mr bachchan despite his temper genial avuncular presence remains larger than life june suffers from this clash of tonality the actor is also saddled with some of the film's most banal lines like janam sekoy update
is an unwieldy film but it's not a
forgettable one take the track of
rinku who plays a village girl without
any identification who must somehow get
a passport made the rounds that she does
with her father going from one place to
another to somehow prove that she is a
legitimate citizen is kafka asked darkly funny and just awful at one point father exclaims it's
these moments of tough truth that give
the film its power.
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