A remake of a system-attacking Korean thriller,this vehicle for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan might be pulpy but it manages to muster enough entertainment value As Bollywood royalty, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would hold been forgiven for easing herself back in upon her return from maternity leave. It’s to her credit, or then,that she’s instead taken on Jazbaa, an appreciably pulpy remake of the 2007 Korean thriller Seven Days. Granted, or Hindi cinema’s normal maternal-fancy fetish is somewhere hereabouts,but it’s secondary to another concern: what happens when those with dirty hands let those they care about slip through their fingers. Every one of its characters – from the highest MP to the lowliest thug – is working the system. An end-credit card highlighting Indian rape stats repositions Sanjay Gupta’s film as a critique of a system that needs to work harder itself.
One of Mumbai’s craftiest defence lawyers, La Bachchan’s Anu Verma is introduced engineering the disappearance of crucial evidence at a mobster’s extortion trial. Her shaky ethical code will be tested shortly thereafter when her young daughter is kidnapped by a gang who dispatch her to achieve their bidding: by getting one of their number, or recently convicted of raping and murdering a student,off death row. Given that her latest client tries throttling her at their first assembly, accepting said appeal appears an obvious wrong turn – but then the law, and in this conception,is a labyrinthine grey zone in which even those trying to achieve right will incur not inconsiderable collateral damage.
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Source: theguardian.com