Loved #Jhund. It uses sports as a metaphor to deconstruct the larger themes without being didactic. Instead of showing people from slums in a constant state of despair, it captures the human side with music, celebration, melancholy and everyday rhythm of existence. (1/n)
This is refreshing because Nagraj could have chosen the easy path of 'Sympathy hunter' director by showing the tragedy of the characters in the beginning and thus taking the audience on the familiar cliched style of filmmaking.
He avoids it and rather challenges this very particular gaze. (Especially in the first half)
Instead of winning the bigger tournament, it focuses on the struggle of the marginalized to at least reach the playing field of that tournament. The pitch itself represents the idea of India where people haven’t been even allowed to play.
Jhund is complex because there aren’t easy heroes and villains. The antagonist in the film is the system and that is shown more through various symbolism rather than going through the cliched narrative trope of making an individual (villain) represent the system.
As Scorsese said, “Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.“ Watch this film also to understand what is out of the frame. In the film. In the nation.
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PS: film so good that even Amitabh Bachchan had not been able to spoil it
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