Jolly LLB is a half cooked narration of David v/s Goliath in India's legal corridors. While the starcast include Boman Irani and Arshad Varsi, the characters appear to have come from Madhur Bhandarkar's cinema. They are funny, they are proud, sometime rude too - but never realistic and always over the top. The protagonist itself is a stereotypical confused Indian underdog who gets his sense of responsibility towards the society in middle of nowhere. In one scene he is enjoying the gift of his sweet little thing called bribe, in other he gives it back with return gift of junglee rats. Why rats? I'm sure even the director will not be able to answer that. Arshad Varsi looked old, rusty and out of touch with his usual comic sense. I feel Circuit had a stronger persona inspite of being the second fiddle to the mighty Munnabhai. Boman Irani is the all-too-powerful lawyer who just knows one thing - to win cases. He is loud, arrogant and bad. But he is not a villain. He lacks a persona that will make me respect him. For some random reason, he is like those villains of South India movies, whose only job is to bring some smiles with slapstickic comical scenes and then get killed in hands of the almighty hero (rowdy rathore, singham type villains)
I wish this movie had offered some interesting plot & dared to think beyond the obvious.
PS: My expectations from this legal drama could have been high after those sleepless night of watching SUITS. However, I still stand by view that this movie is just mediocre.
I wish this movie had offered some interesting plot & dared to think beyond the obvious.
PS: My expectations from this legal drama could have been high after those sleepless night of watching SUITS. However, I still stand by view that this movie is just mediocre.
