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Jhund Movie Review : A sports film that tells you a lot about the game of life

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Average Ratings: 3.31/5 Score: 71% Positive Reviews Counted:10 Positive:6 Neutral:2 Negative:2

Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Taran Adarsh Site: Twitter

Sairat director #NagrajManjules first #Hindi outing is not just a sports drama – peppered with terrific moments – but also tackles real issues that hit you hard€¦ #BigB is spectacular, #Shahenshah among actors. The deterrents here are its run time [almost 3 hours] and inconsistent pace€¦ #Jhund may/may not appeal to the mainstream audience, but heres a film that speaks its mind and eventually, stays in your mind€¦ You need a strong stomach to absorb this one!

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Ratings: — Review By: Anupama Chopra Site: Filmcompanion

Jhund is an unwieldy film but its 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 herself a legitimate citizen, is Kafkaesque, darkly funny and awful. At one point, her father exclaims: aadmi ki koi keemat hi nahin.Its these moments of tough truth that give the film its power.

Ratings: — Review By: Komal Nahta Site: Zee ETC Bollywood Business

On the whole, Jhund may have its heart in the right place but thats not enough to set the cash registers ringing. The film will win more critical acclaim than box-office rewards. Flop. It will do slightly better in pockets of Maharashtra.

Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Rachana Site: Times Of India

One of the centrepieces of the film is the subtlety with which several issues including caste divide, societal judgements, class difference, economic difference and womens education and rights are interspersed into the screenplay. The downside is that some of these issues divert the attention of the proceedings, breaking the overall rhythm of the story. To sum up, this ones a dramatic sports film, which may not have thrilling moments around every corner for you but the point it tries to drive home will definitely kick your insides hard.

Ratings: 4.5/5 Review By: Saibal Site: NDTV

Jhund releases its coiled-up energy a joule at a time as it glides towards an airport security check sequence that constitutes the film’s climax and conveys in a nutshell the plight of the powerless as well as the possibility of a game-changing pushback.

Ratings: 2/5 Review By: Shubhra Gupta Site: Indian Express

Finally, Jhund is an overlong meander, its sporadically alive moments doused in the most generic beats of the sports-as-upliftment movie. The best intentions do not always a good film make.

Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Sukanya Site: Rediff

Jhund revolves around football, but it does not build itself around a thrilling match. Sometimes the greatest goal a man can score is to toss the knife in the trash can.

Ratings: 2/5 Review By: Anna Site:Firstpost

After a while, Jhunds shot at true-to-life realism becomes self-indulgent to the point of being dull. Manjule seems to be trying to achieve a hybrid of fictionalised reality, realistic storytelling, a deeply observational mode and a documentary-like flavour in Jhund but is unable to get there.

Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Shubham Site: Koimoi

This is a film that wants your attention and once it has it, there is no looking back. Amitabh Bachchan is amazing, Nagraj Manjule is at his best and so is everything around them. You must go for this one.

Ratings: 4/5 Review By: Hungama Site: Bollywood Hungama

On the whole, JHUND is a superb social entertainer, with Nagraj Popatrao Manjule’s writing and direction, and the performances being its core strengths. At the box office, it has the potential to grow significantly as the word of mouth is bound to be very positive. It also deserves tax-free status. Recommended!

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Jhund Plot:

Based on the life of Vijay Barse , a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer. He managed to rehabilitate street lower caste kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer players and building a whole team.

Jhund Release Date:

Mar 4, 2022 ( India) straight to Theaters

Jhund Cast:

Amitabh€‰Bachchan Akash Thosar Rinku Rajguru

Jhund Director:

Nagraj Manjule

Jhund Producer:

Bhushan Kumar Krishan Kumar Raaj Hiremath

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Jhund Review: A Bit Bollywood-ised, but Still a Great Hindi Debut by Nagraj Manjule

Nagraj Popatrao Manjule ’s  Jhund isn’t anything like I expected. Firstly, it is not your regular sports drama. Yes, it is about a sport and the journey of a team of amateurs towards an international tournament. However, the composition of the team — a complicated bunch of kids from a slum in Nagpur — makes the journey here end where most sports biopics with upper-caste protagonists begin. This narrative choice alone highlights everything wrong with this country. But when a kid casually asks, ‘ Bharat matlab ?’, the viewer is made aware of the heartbreaking reality that estrangement goes both ways.

Ankush Masram (Ankush Gedam) is a hot-headed teenager who, along with his group of friends, does odd, illegal, and risky jobs to make a living. Vijay Borade ( Amitabh Bachchan ) is an about-to-be-retired physical educator nearby. He also lives in the neighbourhood, but a giant wall separates both worlds. He chances upon the kids playing football with a jar while trying to shelter himself from the rain. We aren’t explained why he takes such interest in them. Maybe it’s his impending retirement, but he does, and the rest is the movie.

I was not particularly impressed by Bachchan’s performance. His speech at the court, too, feels forced and beyond the point. But I understand the relevance of that casting choice. If anyone can personify Bollywood, it is Bachchan. Having him move around unfamiliar terrains and thematic territories perfectly parallels Manjule’s entry into Hindi cinema. Bollywood is the coach that one day decided to look beyond the wall. And I wish I could say Manjule is as unintimidated as the kids, but he isn’t. I knew that Manjule would rub off on Bollywood, but I didn’t expect Bollywood to get into his mind. He is still the director with a vision – ‘ Talakh Talakh Talakh ‘ shouts a Muslim woman when her husband tries to threaten her – but his message is a bit diluted, like the saffron shade on the shirts worn by men looking for a fight saying, ‘ Ghar mein guske maarenge .’

This isn’t to say that the film lacks a moral compass; it doesn’t. The whole subplot concerning Rinku Rajguru ’s Monica is about the government asking people for papers they are never given. ‘A Digital India’ board standing uselessly as the girl and her father try to find a “big man” who can vouch for their whereabouts. The joyous abundance with which the kids celebrate Bhim Jayanthi is a miracle in itself for a Hindi film.

Jhund doesn’t lack humour either. The kids are played by a bunch of natural actors who steal the show. The scene where an adult film reminds them of football is small yet delightful. So is this amusing dialogue, “ Hitler bhai, Jai Bhim .” So many things are wrong and right with it. It’s marvellous.

Manjule’s previous films are, even if cinematic and dramatic, detailed and exact. Everything has its place, and nothing is redundant. Here, though, you miss the precision. Vijay’s son is displeased with his father’s charitable spending. He leaves the country, and then he comes back changed. Why or how; we aren’t told. Not just that, the documentary-style exposition, before the interval block, meant to familiarise us with the kids, does the exact opposite. They were flesh and blood until then, and that device turns them into a checklist of stories. I understand that the filmmaker wanted to discuss reality through them, but the issues with the screenplay become apparent.

Cinematographer Sudhakar Reddy does a great job while capturing the predictably unpredictable match, and in establishing the dynamics of the slum and the neighbourhoods around it as well. The camera tracks the landscape and, while doing so, also shows the way one part treats the other. The affluent locality throwing their waste into the slum is both a literal and symbolic representation of a world that’s rotten to its core. The production, too, does a great job creating a believable world. After a point, you stop fact-checking the details, and instead, let the surroundings guide you into the story. Ajay-Atul’s music doesn’t always flow seamlessly, but it adds energy, much needed for an unnecessarily extensive film.

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Jhund ends with a plane taking off. The camera is looking up, standing beside a wall that prohibits anyone from crossing it. What of people flying above it? It doesn’t say. This frame perfectly encapsulates Manjule’s  Jhund . The film doesn’t pretend to solve a problem as deep-rooted as caste. The basthi is still there, and so is the wall. Yet he tries to focus the gaze towards the sky, providing his characters with an escape, however brief, and leaving his audience hopeful without erasing the reality. For that, I was thankful.

This Jhund review is a Silverscreen original article. It was not paid for or commissioned by anyone associated with the movie. Silverscreen.in and its writers do not have any commercial relationship with movies that are reviewed on the site.

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Jhund movie review: Amitabh Bachchan scores a goal in this sports drama with a heart

Jhund movie review: amitabh bachchan plays a football coach who recruits a bunch of kids from the neighbourhood slums for his team..

Can I take the liberty to call Jhund a docu-drama? Or does it have to be labeled differently despite it having numerous elements that are so real and don't bear any resemblance of what we typically see in a Bollywood film? Nagraj Manjule's Jhund tackles and touches upon some key issues in a way that's immersive and impressive.

Sometimes, you don't need a film to impress you in entirety, and there are a couple of portions that stay with you for long, and hit you hard. Jhund has a few of these which are beautifully written, shot and narrated. And indeed heart-touching when you watch them.

Starring Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay Borade --a character based on the life of a retired sports professor Vijay Barse, who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer --Jhund is an entertainer of a different breed. A mix of sports and social drama, the film's is about how Vijay spots a bunch of youngsters in neighbouring slum, playing with a plastic barrel, and their potential to do better in life rather than stay drowned in crimes in Nagpur's underbelly. He builds a football team of underdogs from slums, and in the process, he keeps them off drugs, alcohol, and crimes like chain-snatching. Was all that an easy feat to achieve? What all challenges and struggles he had to face? Was he really able to change anyone's life? This is what the film shows in its almost a three-hour-long runtime.

Whether or not it's a safe proposition in today's time, with OTT platforms offering so much content, to make a film this long is a different discussion altogether. But Manjule, to a large extent, manages to hold audience's attention. There are moments when you feel the story has digressed a bit. And then, soon enough, another gripping scene catches your eye. It's the camera work throughout that spells magic. Full credit to Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti's cinematography as he chooses to show close-ups of kids, evoking an unmatched emotion. Watch out for an adrenaline rush during those football match sequences.

There's a warm and beautiful scene just before the interval where kids and adults from slums narrate their life stories and not for once do you feel they're reading lines from a script. The Nagpuria dialect is right on-point and bowls you over. Perhaps that's where Jhund scores a goal for me. Another scene which stays with you is towards the climax. Manjule, very metaphorically shows how despite being a 'Don' in your area, when you go out in the world, things are never too easy.

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However, there's inconsistency in the film's pre and post-interval narrative. While the first half is tight and keeps you intrigued for most part, the second half just falls all over the place as the social drama part takes over. Thankfully, it's not laced with multiple monologues from the protagonist. Even the humour that was quite organically peppered in first half, suddenly vanishes in the second, as focus shifts to issues like class divide, poverty, women's education, gender disparity et al.

Talking of the sports sequences in the film, there are several deja vu moments when you watch the team in action on the football field. You're reminded of highlights from Lagaan, Chak De India, Dangal, Sultan and many more and there's no novelty there. They're exciting to watch, no doubt, but you doesn't surprise you with anything different. Nonetheless, none of this would have meant anything if it was not for Amitabh Bachchan's screen presence. At 80, seeing him pull off this kind of a role is spectacular to say the least. He owns every frame he appears in onscreen and leaves you asking for more. The camaraderie and comfort he is shown to have with the kids moves you. And not for once does he try to overshadow the team he is coaching. Each kid in that team gets their moment to shine. Manjule's actors from Sairat--Aakash Thosar and Rinky Rajguru--have smaller parts in the ensemble cast but lend a noticeable support to the story.

To sum up, Jhund is not and should not be looked at as a sports biopic. It shows you real issues and what goes behind the scenes when you try to accomplish something that everyone says you can't.

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