neha santhosh kumar

jigra: 7/10 [spoiler filled review] off the bat, the direction for the non-action scenes were beautiful. i loved the purposeful use of light and colour and how the rule of thirds was used to show the emptiness in the main character’s life, for she’s gone through a lot and experienced many losses. i also loved how the main song was used throughout the film across time and how the music reflected how the characters changed; i think it was a symbolic representation of the rakhi song (phoolon ka taaron) and how it is the same song every year, similar to how a sibling relationship is the same yet develops. i also thoroughly enjoyed how they portrayed the extent to which the sister would go for her brother. the writers helped this case by showing us how the sister interacted with other people in her life, the motivations behind her character and how that resulted in the way she is. lastly, i liked how they didn’t focus on the dad’s backstory and why he committed suicide. as a child, there’s no way she would’ve known that he was struggling and that he was intending to commit. so it was a rather accurate representation of what happens irl. side note, i love how vedang raina looks and alia bhatt’s acting was really polished in this. however, i found many technical deus ex machinas and didn’t like how most things just happened to turn out right. first thing i didn’t like was how he submitted to the confession so easily. like he’s an engineering and a rather smart individual as shown but he just agreed to stuff that wasn’t translated for him. even as a person who might not have any knowledge about the law, he should know that he has the right to understand what is being discussed and to ask for a lawyer if he feels like the lawyer at hand is prejudiced or isn’t helping his case. i also didn’t enjoy how they portrayed hanshi dao since their understanding of SEA countries and chinese culture was not properly developed (this might be a tight criticism though since we’re from sg, otherwise i think they did a decent amount of research and what not). i also didn’t like how the term “revolution” was so loosely used. like a prison break isn’t a revolution and nothing to change the system was done, so it’s not really a revolution and you’re basically undermining all other ones that did actually take place. overall i think it was a good movie and a fresh plot but it could’ve been developed a lot better and relied less on coincidences