Ankur Anand (Vedang Raina) is a youngster full of dreams with his life, but he lands in jail because of a false drug case and is sentenced to death. Satya Anand (Alia Bhatt) the elder sister of Ankur sets up on a mission to free her brother and she is ready to face any consequences. Jigra’s story focuses on how Satya plans to save her brother and what difficulties she goes through during the process.
Alia Bhatt performed very well as Satya Anand. She was equally convincing in emotional parts and action sequences as well. Vedang Raina was decent while Manoj Pahwa was perfect and Rahul Ravindran made his presence felt.
Director Vasan Bala’s Jigra had a proper pre-release hype because of the interesting promos. Showing Alia Bhatt in an action avatar made everyone excited about this film. However, all the good moments from the film were shown in the teaser and trailer itself and Jigra has nothing more than that. The film takes off on a wonderful note and suddenly slows down and wakes up only at the climax. Vasan Bala surely had an intriguing idea, but his execution was far away from the desired effect.
Positives:
Alia Bhatt’s performance is the biggest plus point of the film and there are some good moments/dialogues which show her love towards her brother came out very well. The entire jail break episode near the climax was nicely choreographed.
Negatives:
The film’s screenplay is not engaging except for the initial and final portions. The drama behind the plan of prison break was not shown effectively and the pain/struggles that Ankur faces in jail were also not established properly. The narration tests the tolerance of audiences as it takes considerable time to get into the action and by the time it arrives to the main point; it was too late.
Rating: 2/5
