If actor-turned-virtue signaller Suriya and director and T. J. Gnanvel had seen film critic Baradwaj Rangan’s review of their film ‘Jai Bhim’, they would feel so humiliated for making such a movie and might even go the extent of quitting their career.
Such has been Baradwaj Rangan’s take on the movie who has smashed it to smithereens which might even make people to cancel their subscription of Amazon Prime Video so that they don’t even accidentally watch the movie.
The award-winning film critic called Jai Bhim a cry-baby film which relies on amplifying the viewer’s empathy through hysteria.
“This is a movie that takes this ‘crying-baby’ concept to a new level when a man is arrested… he has just bought toys for his young little child.. and when he is led away by the police, the wheels of the police jeep crushes those toys. Oh my god, the tragedy!”, Baradwaj Rangan narrates.
“Why do you have to amplify everything so much? Why don’t you rely on the emotions inherent in the subject of the story, in the people in the story? Why do you have to add all this extra sauce?”, he goes on.
He said that Jai Bhim is the example of a movie that screams the message in the ears treating the Tamil audience as dumb people.
He also said that the movie shows only two kinds of people – kind and evil – with nobody in the middle.
About Suriya who plays the role of a lawyer named ‘Chandru’, he says “Suriya takes on this case and we know he will because he does this slo-mo jump that lawyers I think typically do at this place and then he has triumphant music following him and at the end, everyone says basically ‘you’re God’.” adding that this one of Suriya’s least involved performances.
Baradwaj also says that the writing is ‘ridiculously bad’ and notes that the movie feels like a mash-up of ‘Visaranai’ and Ka Pe Ranasingam.
He says that while Visaranai showed police brutality realistically, Jai Bhim does it to just amplify the melodrama.
“In Visaranai they tried to show reality, here they’re trying to attract pity”, he says.
About the actors Manikandan and Lijo Jose, Baradwaj says that he wished both of the wonderful actors had not been cast in a movie that is so hysterically directed.
He said that a good story with good intentions at heart need not necessarily translate to a good film.
Watch the full review here.
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