Jolly LLB 3 review: Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi's film is loftier than other LLBs

Jolly LLB 3UA Comedy dramaDir Subhash KapoorCast Akshay Kumar Arshad WarsiRating There are two Jollys for the price of one in this third instalment of Jolly LLBThe introductory part mdash loosely based on Delhirsquos Nanda BMW case mdash starred Arshad Warsi in the eponymous role The filmmakers replaced Warsi with Akshay Kumar in the sequel set in Lucknow This one brings the two actors in the same roleWherein both Warsi as in Jagdish Tyagi and Kumar ie Jagdishwar Mishra are Jolly LLB of course Rather than Warsi playing lsquoCircuitrsquo to Kumarrsquos lead theyrsquore at each otherrsquos throats to start withGiven the confusion between their names and the poaching of clients as a result mdash you could treat this powwow as western Uttar Pradesh Tyagi Meerut vs eastern UP Mishra from Kanpur having recently moved to Delhi from the filmrsquos second partThat neither character bothers to crack their respective twang to the core I guess is okay For yoursquore more interested in what theyrsquore up toWhich is while fighting petty cases inside and outside the court to keep their kitchens running after all Rather than anything lofty or deeply ambitiousConsider the first case in the film where a man at 80 mdash who canrsquot tell between ldquosonography and pornographyrdquo mdash gets duped into marrying a crossdresserThat you can tell whether the said wife is mahila or male in less than a minute is not the pointNyay justice is clearly blind in this case that Jolly Mishra wins on behalf of the obvious offender This sorta matter hardly builds confidence in the court let alone the film thatrsquos to follow thereafterWherein one of Indiarsquos richest men Gajraj Rao worth Rs 38000 crore engages directly with Mishra Ji a random district court lawyer mdash unless hersquos aware thatrsquos Akshay Kumar mdash who walks in to the business titanrsquos mansion wondering if itrsquos a hotelWell didnrsquot he just enter a home from the main gate I suppose humourrsquos the purpose Whether or not the jokes always land Several do As it is both Kumar and Warsi are generally a joy to watch And comedy best showcases their main character energies anyway Herersquos whatrsquos changed since the first Jolly LLB 2013 came into the sceneAt least the Supreme Court and High Courts have opened their interiors and actual proceedings to live television You can see first hand how they operate forcing filmsseries ideally to represent them more realistically Also enough great series on OTTs mdash Court Kacheri Guilty Minds Criminal Justice et al mdash have authentically recreated the courtroom drama that for decades resided in mainstream Hindi cinemarsquos melodrama aloneMaking it harder hence for the filmmakers to retain the novelty of Jolly LLB itselfHerersquos whatrsquos not changed besides Akshay Kumarrsquos jaw line Actor Saurabh Shukla is simply as adorable as the cuddly cranky Judge Sunder Lal TripathiOnly he appears as interested in the dates he allots in his courtroom as those he hopes to find outside it through a dating appHersquos hilariously besotted by the local copSHO the equally lovely Shilpa Shukla As ever he believes more in the ldquospirit than the letterrdquo of lawconstitution And yes now two Jollys in place of one give him anxiety that morning jogs can hardly cureShukla is also a writerdirector himself Which possibly helps him add a layer or two to his characterslines that actors chiefly following a script may not pull off with as much easeItrsquos hardly a wonder then that a film with two stars in them already has Shukla tower over both on occasion all through the three Jolly LLBs in factMore so the third instalment That beyond the actors actually belongs to a larger idea Something I didnrsquot see comingLand politics and its complete corporate takeover is the point of this picture In terms of degree this Jolly LLB thus graduates to an LLMThe subject is obviously inspired by clashes between farmers and police that took place at the twin villages Bhatta and Parsaul near Greater Noida UP over land compensation in 2011 But this is a movie that belongs to the times For governments may go Greed stays where it wasAnd it continues to define contemporary politics mdash that few Mumbai directors have found various entertaining entrypoints to consistently comment on as Subhash Kapoor multiple seasons of Maharani film Madam Chief Minister Jolly LLBs of course ShabashFootsoldiers for largescale fraudsland scams as in this film are easy to coopt mdash while they ldquodonrsquot sell their potential to cheap stuff thatrsquos emotionalrdquoDoes it matter then if itrsquos the British East India Company or any other Indian company still lording over the state where people have fewer rights regardlessIrsquom getting these thoughts through most of this filmrsquos second half mdash so much superior to its first half an absolute rarity mdash that true to its genre culminates with a final showdown in the courtroom which is hard to matchDid I expect this Nope Did I eventually love the film more as a result Yup I suspect so would youYUCK WHATEVER GOOD SUPER AWESOME

Jolly LLB 3 review: Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi's film is loftier than other LLBs

Jolly LLB 3
U/A: Comedy, drama
Dir: Subhash Kapoor
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi
Rating: ***

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Jolly LLB 3 review: Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi's film is loftier than other LLBs

Jolly LLB 3U/A: Comedy, dramaDir: Subhash KapoorCast: Akshay Kumar, Arshad WarsiRating: ***

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Jolly LLB 3
U/A: Comedy, drama
Dir: Subhash Kapoor
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi
Rating: ***