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Jalsa: A good film, could’ve been great if they’d just had the courage to kill the girl

Vidhya Balan

Indeed, even the most prepared cinephiles would concur, Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa is a remarkably all around made film for standard Bollywood. It’s smoothly coordinated, perfectly planned, and specifically aggressive. In any case, it makes each point that it needs to before the finish of its first demonstration

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.With somewhat of a shrug, it gos through the following 45 minutes taking the crowd on a tangled visit inside the personalities of its inexorably terrible characters. And afterward, having gained little ground past what it had proactively uncovered about them 30 minutes in, the film just chooses to end-closing with a cry rather than a pummel. You don’t have any idea what to think about it. In the event that you have not watched the film yet, think about this as a spoiler alert.

One minor adjustment to the story could’ve made Jalsa an infinitely more compelling experience, more relevant not just emotionally, but also psychologically and sociologically. Not only would this alteration have made for a bolder, riskier movie, but it could’ve magically erased some of the logical inconsistencies of the plot. For Jalsa to be a better film, the girl had to die.

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In fact, that’s what it implies in its opening scene, which cuts on a rather gruesome shot of the girl in question being rammed by a speeding car in the dead of the night. We’re told some minutes later that the car was being driven by Maya Menon, a prominent journalist played by Vidya Balan. Maya’s introductory scene establishes her as a woke-minded voice of righteousness. She corners a judge on a live interview with her hardline questioning, and would rather watch him squirm than compromise on her ethics.

Vidhya Balan

Vidhya Balan

In fact, that’s what it implies in its opening scene, which cuts on a rather gruesome shot of the girl in question being rammed by a speeding car in the dead of the night. We’re told some minutes later that the car was being driven by Maya Menon, a prominent journalist played by Vidya Balan. Maya’s introductory scene establishes her as a woke-minded voice of righteousness. She corners a judge on a live interview with her hardline questioning, and would rather watch him squirm than compromise on her ethics.

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