Jigra Movie Review: Psychopath OR Sister???

Alia Bhatt's latest movie Jigra had released in theatres on 11th October. So, What is Jigra about? There are two characters of brother and sister, the bond between them is so strong that things reach the borderline psychopath level. Alia Bhatt's character Satya is the elder sister and it is her responsibility to protect her brother in any situation, whether he was in school or now that he has grown up. She has to protect him because the younger brother Ankur has gone to another country, Hanshi Dao and there is some trouble, the police have caught him and they are going to kill him within 3 months.

So the elder sister goes to that country from India and has to break the jail there and get her brother out, that's the only premise of it. And you might be finding it a little absurd that how is this possible, but the biggest win for this movie is that it makes you believe this because in a two and a half hour movie, majority run time of 90 to 100 minutes, we are just watching this jail break thing, bringing the thought to mind, planning, executing, failing, then executing again and the more different its core concept is, the better its writing is. For this, a very simple example is the main jailer character, usually he is made a villain that look how bad a person he is, how bad he is doing to the brother of the person whom the main character is trying to save, so that the audience hates him and when the main character comes and kills him, you find their actions justified, even if it means killing him. But this movie does not try that clichéd way.

I really liked the fact that not only the main characters but the team around them has also been given a lot of attention, especially Manoj Pawa as a bad ass. There were some hilarious scenes of Manoj Pawa. The performance of Vedang Raina who is playing the role of the younger brother was amazing, but the character has been used as a tool to justify Alia Bhatt's actions, which is not a big complaint because the whole movie is dependent on Satya and Alia Bhatt carried the emotional scenes, be it action or being possessive, she really pulled through. Here, the director of the movie also needs to be praised, Vasant Bala, whose last two movies you might have seen, Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota and Monika Ho My Darling.  

This movie was made so creatively. If you see the character of Alia Bhatt from the introduction, you will feel that it is probably an event management job, but no, the movie will gradually give you information and you will be like Oh Acha! Till now all the aspects that I have told seem mostly positive, but then what did she do that some people might not like. See this movie is telling you the story of such a sister who can do anything, literally anything to save her brother, if in this process 10, 15, 20 innocent people die, then she doesn't care. I personally like the conviction of such a story of a sister because I don't go to see morality, the same thing applies to Sandeep Reddy Vanga's movie and here as well, but if you are one of those people who want to see only morally correct things in the movie, then stay away but if you expect that you are going to see a lot of action in it, then No and Yes.

There is a very good fight sequence in the roadside and in the end, the whole jail break sequence goes on for half an hour which is really good. But if you leave that, then the rest of the time is either setup or planning how to spend it. Personally, I am going to talk about those things that I did not like in the movie, as much as its music choices at many places became a bit dramatic according to my taste, it is quite good to listen to, they play the Phoolo Ka Taaro Ka song and right at the end there is a sequence on the boat, I think that was a bit unnecessary because till that point the movie remained as realistic as possible, but in the last 5 minutes something happens to create suspense.

What I said about the music was only on the choices that what has been chosen to play at which moment. Actually all the songs or musical pieces are quite great in themselves. Its cinematography, lighting and camera work were good. Overall, I found Jigra quite solid, I got to see what I had expected, even better. So if you want to watch a movie based on brother-sister love, Jigra is the best choice. Jigra is currently steaming on NETFLIX.