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Jhund Reviews

A stylish, propulsive, and resonant tale of frustrations channeled through sport.

Full Review | Dec 20, 2022

For a mainstream breakout film, Manjule creates something that has both a heart and mind behind it.

Full Review | Dec 10, 2022

Jhund is a technically sound film with its heart in the right place and teems with fine performances from everyone involved. Kudos to Manjule for his brilliant follow up to Sairat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 22, 2022

JHUND shows us Nagraj Manjule from a mellower, more easily digestible side. Wonderfully colorful and with a great young cast, but also really long overall and especially in the second half with little bite to it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 13, 2022

Nagraj Manjule’s take on entrenched social iniquities and prejudices has an exhilarating flourish and pulsating energy that marks a new narrative departure for familiar “triumph of the underdog” trope.

Full Review | Mar 14, 2022

Adopting a pace and rhythm that buttresses the film's overall edifice, Manjule's remarkable screenplay carves out two halves that are distinct from each other in tone and emphasis.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2022

The film is very thought-provoking – but only on paper. The screen is another ballgame.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2022

Jhund is an unwieldy film but its not a forgettable one.

Earthy and unpretentious it has the unforced, unhurried reality of a documentary and the emotional power of great drama. Expect a story soaked in realism with a lack of concessions to mainstream contrivances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2022

Jhund is excessively long and ultimately pretentious. Despite its grand ambitions and good intentions, it fails to click as a cohesive, gripping whole.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 5, 2022

A feel-good saga with a strong reality check.

Amitabh Bachchan scores a goal in this sports drama with a heart.

This Nagraj Manjule film can never quite make up its mind whether it wants to treat Amitabh Bachchan’s Borade as a hero, or focus the spotlight on the hardscrabble lives of the slum kids.

It upends the Bollywood sports biopic template and uses the game of football and an altered narrative form to craft an incisive and deeply felt commentary on the reality of the systemic oppression.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 5, 2022

Writer-film-maker Nagraj Popatrao Manjule magnificently manifests his fanboy nostalgia towards Bachchan's zeitgeist alter ego and anger into a winsome movement championing the cause of football-playing slum kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 3, 2022

As a writer and director, Nagraj Popatrao Manjule manages to hold one’s attention ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2022

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Jhund : The incredible real-life story behind Amitabh Bachchan's new film

By Abhishek Mande Bhot

It began on a rainy Saturday afternoon in 2001.

Vijay Barse, a sports teacher at a local college in Nagpur, central India , took shelter under a tree. As he waited for the rain to abate, he watched a group of young boys kicking around a broken bucket in an open ground.

They all came from nearby slums and couldn’t afford a football. The broken bucket was the closest alternative.

Barse recognised them from his college ground which they would frequent, not so much to play but rather to just hang out, smoke a bidi, perhaps divide their pickpocketing spoils. But on that afternoon, as they were kicking around a broken bucket instead of a football, Barse saw in them an earnestness that he had missed before.

Football or soccer as it is called in several parts of the world is known as the people’s game for the simple reason that at its elementary level, it doesn’t require any equipment bar one – the ball. And here was a group of kids that couldn’t afford even that one thing. Not that it came in their way of enjoying the game.

Watching this sight, Barse was moved.

When he wasn’t working at Nagpur’s Hislop College, Barse was busy organising public movements to protect sports grounds from being encroached upon, cycle rallies to promote general fitness and well-being.

Helping bring about social equality was always part of his DNA, he once told a newspaper in an interview. But what he was about to do would change the lives of hundreds of children in the years to come.

After seeing their potential, Barse suggested to the college management to invite the boys he’d spotted, to play along with the college football team. The college boys refused because they didn’t want to play with kids from the slums.

So, Vijay Barse did the unthinkable. He launched a district-wide football tournament for kids. The only criterion for entry was that they’d have to be living in slums. No one with even the slightest privilege was allowed to play.

Thus began the Zopadpatti Football , or what is known as Slum Soccer, an organisation that uplifts underprivileged children through football.

The tournament took off with hundreds of kids enrolling from different parts of the district. Since no one seemed to know the exact rules of the game, there were just two: don’t assault your opposition players and keep the ball within the boundaries of the playing area. And, of course, score.

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Those who won didn’t get a prize but an opportunity to be photographed with the local politicians. Those who lost got a football as the prize. Barse’s logic was that the winners got the glory and all the motivation needed to continue with the game, the losers were the ones who needed to be cared for and the football served as that motivation to keep playing the game.

When he began, Barse didn’t have any funding. When he retired in 2006, he received his retirement fund and spent no time in spending it to buy a piece of land where kids could play and serve as HQ of Slum Soccer. Eventually, his wife, Rachana retired too and contributed her share of the retirement fund.

They built a small structure that would serve as the HQ of Slum Soccer on weekdays and a church on the weekend. The couple also lives here.

The Barses’ philanthropy didn’t go down well with their son, Abhijit. They fell out and he took up a job as a research fellow in the US. It was around this time that Barse and his boys were invited to the Homeless World Cup in South Africa.

Also started in 2001, this annual association football tournament is organised by the Homeless World Cup Foundation. The foundation advocates the end of homelessness through the sport.

What it also does is that it provides an opportunity to kids like those in Barse’s Slum Soccer to travel overseas, see different countries, and expand their worldview.

Barse and his boys got the opportunity to meet Nelson Mandela and Slum Soccer soon became globally renowned with international publications covering his efforts. It was one such article that caught Abhijit Barse’s eye and he returned home to help out his father.

Slum Soccer has come a long way since that rainy Saturday afternoon in 2001. Today, girls are part of the programme too, and the organisation runs multiple programmes to bring about gender awareness through its offices across several states.

It has also given the participating children something to look forward to. Girls and boys who never thought they’d be able to travel outside the state have flown halfway around to the world and seen countries they didn’t know existed.

But more than that, Slum Soccer has opened up opportunities. One of Slum Soccer’s early participants grew up to be a football coach, another one has started an academy.

Vijay Barse came into national spotlight after he appeared on an episode of Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate . In 2017, it was announced that a movie would be made on his life with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead.

Jhund , loosely translated as horde, was supposed to release in 2019. Following a series of delays, brought in part due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Jhund is set to release on March 4, 2022.

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Release date: March 4. 2022

Running time: 173 minutes

Based on the life of Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer. He managed to rehabilitate street kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer players and building a whole team.

Original title: Jhund

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Vicky Kadian, Ganesh Deshmukh

Director: Nagraj Manjule

Production: 2022

Age restrictions: NR

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Jhund Review: Amitabh Bachchan Stars In Underdog Sports Movie That Is Way More Than That

Jhund review: it upends the bollywood sports biopic template and uses the game of football and an altered narrative form to craft an incisive and deeply felt commentary on the reality of the systemic oppression..

Amitabh Bachchan from Jhund (Courtesy: amitabhbachchan )

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhinay Raj Singh, Ganesh Deshmukh, Vicky Kadian

Director: Nagraj Manjule

Rating: 4.5 stars (out of 5)

Walls, both literal and figurative, are everywhere in Jhund , an underdog sports movie that is way, way more than that. The powerful, pulsating and tactile three-hour film gives the established conventions of the genre a vigorous shake and transforms it into something markedly bigger than the game and the personalities it showcases.

One physical wall stands between the deprived but doughty youngsters of a Nagpur slum and a playground on a sprawling college campus adjoining their bustee. Several other walls, which are far higher and immeasurably more daunting, block their way out of their despairing, squalid lives they lead.

In the last shot of Jhund , a wall looms into view as an international flight takes off over it. This one separates the Mumbai airport from another slum area. On it is a warning that sums it all up: "Crossing the wall is strictly prohibited".

Written and directed by Nagraj Manjule, Jhund is a story of the walls that the socially marginalized run into, and are thwarted by, at every turn. The film, on its part, dismantles two pivotal mythologies that drive the dominant notions of mass entertainment in this country: one springing from the Hindu epics, the other from the dominant idioms of Indian popular cinema.

With both given a wide berth, what emerges in Jhund is a structure and a style that are embedded in the very nature of the struggle that the dispossessed are engaged in on a daily basis merely to keep heads above the water.

Jhund puts one of the biggest stars of Hindi commercial cinema front and centre and, drawing upon true events, constructs a narrative that captures a motley group of marginalized youth who, through a mix of serendipity, assertion, derring-do and action, seek to break free from the life of petty crime and drug addiction that they are condemned to due to caste discrimination, social ostracism, poverty, lack of education and domestic strife.

Amitabh Bachchan is cast as Prof. Vijay Borade, a social activist modelled on the real-life Vijay Barse, a now-retired sports teacher who, two decades ago, founded Slum Soccer, a Nagpur-based NGO that works to give slum children a new life by grooming them as footballers. Jhund fictionalizes an actual experiment that caught naysayers by surprise and yielded salutary results almost instantly. The film's plot incorporates the Homeless World Cup which, incidentally, began in 2001, the year Slum Soccer came into being.

Coincidentally, Vijay is the name of numerous fictional characters Bachchan has portrayed in a long, eventful acting career - from 1973's Zanjeer to 2011's Buddah Hoga Terra Baap. The name (Vijay) and the goal (victory) assume appreciably added significance in Jhund because they serve the very specific purpose of highlighting a battle without end that has no pat Bollywood-style conclusion.

Indeed, Jhund does not have one. It upends the Bollywood sports biopic template and uses the game of football and an altered narrative form to craft an incisive and deeply felt commentary on the reality of systemic oppression that large swathes of the Indian population have to continually endure in a policing, judicial and education system heavily loaded against them.

Adopting a pace and rhythm that buttresses the film's overall edifice, Manjule's remarkable screenplay carves out two halves that are distinct from each other in tone and emphasis. The first, with its dizzying momentum and haphazard beat, reflects the tempestuous lives of the slum boys and girls who live and die unaccounted for.

The second, with a significantly steadier and more lumbering (in a good way) approach, approximates the arduous, agonizing distance that the Dalit youngsters must traverse simply to be able to give themselves a fair shot at a better life, let alone at sustained glory.

Prof. Borade is about to retire. His son Arjun (Arjun Radhakrishnan, seen recently as APJ Abdul Kalam in the SonyLIV series Rocket Boys), who has had the advantage of a strong education, is set to leave for

Columbia University. Father and son do not see eye to eye because the former uses his frugal material resources to help the disadvantaged. The son departs for New York, leaving Prof. Borade to his own devices. By the means of the arc of the father-son relationship, Jhund depicts two opposing approaches to running and funding social campaigns and their eventual coalescence.

Borade Senior chances upon the Gaddi Godam jhopadpatti boys (and a girl or two as well) playing football with an empty plastic can. He not only senses their palpable enthusiasm for the sport but also spots sparks of talent in a handful of them. He decides to help them hone their natural abilities.

The ageing professor thus finds a post-retirement mission. To the chagrin of a class and caste-conscious younger colleague (Kishor Kadam), Vijay Borade trains the boys and girls to take on the team that represents the college that he is retiring from. The college boys are battle-ready, the slum kids are anything but. It is an unequal contest. Or is it?

A dramatic courtroom scene in Jhund does have a touch of Bollywood to it. It has Bachchan's Borade holding forth on the need to ensure a level playing field for everyone who lives on the other side of the wall, including social misfits like the cocky Ankush 'Don' Masram (a remarkably confident Ankush Gedam), who has been driven over the precipice by constant humiliation and harassment by a local hoodlum Sambhya (Sairat lead actor Akash Thosar).

The veteran actor's presence in the film is, however, shorn of starry airs. He plays a facilitator, an agent of change, rather than an active combatant in a war waged for dignity and liberation by a ragtag team of footballers drawn not just from the slum around Borade's college but also from all across India.

Although Bachchan is surrounded by largely unknown young actors - barring Chhaya Kadam (as Borade's wife) and Kishor Kadam - he does not seek to overshadow them, merging subtly with the larger canvas of the world of the slumdwellers. At least three of the other actors stand out - Ankush Gedam as the leader of the Gaddi Godam team (pejoratively called a jhund ), Rajiya Kazi as Razia Bagwan (a young Muslim mother of three who walks out on her husband) and Rinku Rajguru (the Sairat lead actress who plays a Gondi girl Monika, whose biggest challenge is to earn an 'identity' for herself in the records of the government).

The script keeps the spotlight on the hot-headed Ankush, who must climb and jump over many a real and metaphoric wall as he seeks an escape route. No different are the plights of Razia and Monika, one a woman from a minority community, the other a tribal girl. They have to chip away at deeply ingrained prejudice to wrest their place under the sun. Neither sub-plot plays into the biases that Bollywood tends to perpetuate about communities.

All this unfolds post-interval, which explains why the film's second half is paced the way it is. A faster clip would have undermined the gruelling processes that these two girls and Ankush Masram must deal with in order to work their ways out of the darkness.

The camerawork by Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti is a sight to behold especially in the first half and the background score by Saket Kanetkar is irresistibly propulsive. Sound designer Avinash Baburao Sonawane lends Jhund a steady aural backbone.

The anthemic song Laat maar (lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya, music: Ajay-Atul) defines Jhund to perfection. Laat maar (aim a kick) is not only targeted at a football but also at the caste system and at commercial cinema's propensity to offer easy answers. The song, which plays as part of robust Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations in Gaddi Godam and facilitates a moment that has Bachchan pay obeisance to a Babasaheb Ambedkar portrait, opens with Zamaane ki nazar mein tu bhale hi bhangaar hai/Tere bhi seene mein kahin toh angaar hai (you may be junk in the eyes of the world, but the fire burns in your heart, too).

That fire burns with varying intensity all through Jhund , which derives its strength principally from its strategy to eschew the mass-oriented, mythologized methods employed by recent Tamil caste oppression dramas ( Kaala, Periyerum Perumal, Karnan, Sarpatta Parambarai, Jai Bhim , films that made their point extremely forcefully but with the aid of more demonstrative and instantly consumable means).

Jhund stays firmly in a social realist space, favouring a style that has no place for a revenge saga, a romantic tale (although a one-sided love affair is very much a part of the plot) or a rousing, sweeping finale (incidentally, the tale reaches a crowd-pleasing apogee a scene and a song before the intermission and has the steam to last an hour and a half more).

Jhund releases its coiled-up energy a joule at a time as it glides towards an airport security check sequence that constitutes the film's climax and conveys in a nutshell the plight of the powerless as well as the possibility of a game-changing pushback.

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Jhund movie review: A Bachchan-struck Nagraj Manjule cutesyfies poor Dalits for a Bollywood palate

Jhund is excessively long and ultimately pretentious. despite its grand ambitions and good intentions, it fails to click as a cohesive, gripping whole..

Language: Hindi

In 2016, Amitabh Bachchan starred in a Hindi film that featured him prominently on its posters, towering over Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Tariang. Pink ’s promotions may have encashed Bachchan’s superstardom to draw audiences into theatres, but the film itself, despite the flawed writing of his character, remained committed to its primary focus on the three women standing up to a sexual predator. In a departure from most Indian commercial cinema about violence against women, Bachchan played an ally, not the central figure in Pink .

The marketing of Jhund (Herd) too has revolved around Bachchan: a teaser showing a bunch of youngsters drumming up a storm on everyday items turned into percussion instruments, to herald the arrival of Bachchan in the frame; a poster foregrounding a giant image of the star while in the background in diminutive form are a host of characters; a trailer flashing the words “starring the legendary Amitabh Bachchan”. Unlike Pink , here the promotional material is a not-entirely-inaccurate representation of the film itself.

Writer-director Nagraj Popatrao Manjule’s Jhund purports to spotlight a group of impoverished and/or Dalit youth who inch away from crime, alcohol and drug addiction when a local academic taps their instinctive talent for football. In its narrative style, Jhund is an experiment rarely seen in Indian cinema and hence, laudable for its risk-taking. It wavers in its portrayal of Dalits though. Despite some engaging moments with its ragtag team of sportspersons, Jhund is “an Amitabh Bachchan film” all the way, even if not in the conventional sense.

Jhund movie review A Bachchanstruck Nagraj Manjule cutesyfies poor Dalits for a Bollywood palate

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Jhund ’s Bachchan-centricity is conspicuous because Manjule, otherwise one of India’s finest directors, is known for his steadfast gaze on his Dalit protagonists’ concerns and agency. In his affecting debut fiction feature, Fandry , he zeroed in on a teenager living on the margins of rural society and in love with an upper-caste girl. With Sairat , he gave us an equally strong Dalit man and upper-caste woman who are in danger because they are in love in a casteist society. Manjule’s filmography has been Marathi so far, barring his Hindi short Vaikunth in the anthology Unpaused: Naya Safar (2022). Jhund is his first full-length Hindi film.

Bachchan here plays Professor Vijay Borade who is on the verge of retirement. Borade teaches in a Nagpur college catering to upper-class students, while in a sprawling slum in the vicinity, their peers indulge in petty crimes for survival. The wall dividing these two sets of people is both literal and figurative. The good Professor – modelled on the real-life activist Vijay Barse – is the only one who bothers to cross over from his side.

One day, Borade spots young slum-dwellers playing football with a can and realises that the sport could lift them out of their difficult lives. Jhund chronicles his efforts to win them over, the change in their priorities wrought by this new interest, and the lengths to which he goes to facilitate their exit from a marginalised existence.

Clearly Vijay Barse is an inspiring individual. It is not this review’s contention that he is not worthy of a biopic, but it is necessary to point out that contemporary Hindi cinema – unlike Marathi cinema – almost never features poverty-stricken Dalit protagonists, scripts with major Dalit characters struggle to get funds, and so, it is not surprising that Manjule has, disappointingly, opted for this particular story for his Hindi feature debut.

Having said that, even in a film like Jhund , it should be possible to create an ensemble of distinctive characters that remain as identifiable and memorable as the leading man. While not in the context of caste, Shimit Amin did manage this with the women’s hockey team in Chak De! India though it was unmistakably centred around their male coach played by Shah Rukh Khan.

Amitabh Bachchan in a still from Jhund

In Jhund , apart from Don a.k.a. Ankush Masram played by Ankush Gedam, none of Borade’s other recruits gets a well-rounded characterisation. Raziya ( Rajiya Kazi ) has a back story going for her, but we never get to see into this woman’s soul.

There is a different kind of othering going on here, when the most memorable aspect of characters from the slums in a film are their amusing quirks, their eccentricities and the colour in their personalities. Manjule, who has created such beautifully fleshed out human beings for his Marathi films, appears to have cutesyfied the poor Dalits in Jhund for the Bollywood palate, which is an inexplicable choice to make since his ultra-low-key narrative tone here is far removed from anything Bollywood audiences are used to.

After a while, Jhund ’s shot at true-to-life realism becomes self-indulgent to the point of being dull. Manjule seems to be trying to achieve a hybrid of fictionalised reality, realistic storytelling, a deeply observational mode and a documentary-like flavour in Jhund but is unable to get there. For an example of a contemporary Indian film pulling off that amalgam, watch Kunjila Mascillamani’s recently released Asanghadithar (The Unorganised), based on the true saga of women salespersons in Kerala fighting for easy access to toilets and requisite breaks in their workday, that is part of the Malayalam anthology Freedom Fight .

Jhund ’s 178 minutes running time is further bogged down by the insertion of Ajay-Atul’s songs that are nowhere close to the mesmeric soundtrack the duo created for Sairat . There is even a weak attempt to replicate ' Zingaat ’s' energy with Lafda Zala – the composition and picturisation – in Jhund.

Manjule also displays a troubling understanding of intersectionalities when he treats even the male slum-dwellers’ discomfiting attitude to women – their female teammate, who becomes the butt of a joke about shirtlessness, and the glamorous rich woman who Ankush falls for – as cute, and a comic element in his script.

It is impossible not to love Bachchan in Jhund , and interesting to see his elderly, restrained interpretation of the youthful, crusading Vijay from the 1970s and ’80s. This is an endearingly controlled performance, but Manjule succumbs to the temptation to give his star an unnecessary speech about the need to uplift marginalised communities, and never lets us forget that this man of privilege is the leader of the poor lower-caste people in the film.

The speech could have been excused if the film worked in its entirety, but not when, in retrospect, what lingers from this nearly 3 hour exercise is a single well-shot football match between the slum residents and posh students, and the climax in which we really and truly get to see – actually see – the inner Ankush. Gedam, for the record, is lovely and Ankush deserves a film all his own.

Bollywood has for several decades now largely ignored the caste system, with the likes of Masaan , Article 15 and Pareeksha remaining few and far between. Jhund is important in that context because it makes caste, marginalisation, Dr B.R. Ambedkar and the slogan “ Jai Bhim ” the focal point of its conversation. More’s the pity that, despite its grand ambitions and good intentions, it fails to click as a cohesive, gripping whole.

For a film that understands caste and intersectionality, and has intelligence, heart and soul, I would pick Neeraj Ghaywan’s Geeli Pucchi from last year’s Hindi anthology Ajeeb Daastaans any day over this excessively long, ultimately pretentious film from Manjule.

This review was first published when Jhund was released in theatres in March 2022. The film is now streaming on Zee5.

Rating: 2 (out of 5 stars)

Anna M.M. Vetticad is an award-winning journalist and author of The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic. She specialises in the intersection of cinema with feminist and other socio-political concerns. Twitter: @annavetticad, Instagram: @annammvetticad, Facebook: AnnaMMVetticadOfficial

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Jhund movie review: amitabh bachchan plays a football coach who recruits a bunch of kids from the neighbourhood slums for his team..

Can I take the liberty to call Jhund a docu-drama? Or does it have to be labeled differently despite it having numerous elements that are so real and don't bear any resemblance of what we typically see in a Bollywood film? Nagraj Manjule's Jhund tackles and touches upon some key issues in a way that's immersive and impressive.

Jhund movie review: Amitabh Bachchan essays the role of a football coach in the movie.

Sometimes, you don't need a film to impress you in entirety, and there are a couple of portions that stay with you for long, and hit you hard. Jhund has a few of these which are beautifully written, shot and narrated. And indeed heart-touching when you watch them.

Starring Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay Borade --a character based on the life of a retired sports professor Vijay Barse, who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer --Jhund is an entertainer of a different breed. A mix of sports and social drama, the film's is about how Vijay spots a bunch of youngsters in neighbouring slum, playing with a plastic barrel, and their potential to do better in life rather than stay drowned in crimes in Nagpur's underbelly. He builds a football team of underdogs from slums, and in the process, he keeps them off drugs, alcohol, and crimes like chain-snatching. Was all that an easy feat to achieve? What all challenges and struggles he had to face? Was he really able to change anyone's life? This is what the film shows in its almost a three-hour-long runtime.

There's a warm and beautiful scene just before the interval where kids and adults from slums narrate their life stories and not for once do you feel they're reading lines from a script. The Nagpuria dialect is right on-point and bowls you over. Perhaps that's where Jhund scores a goal for me. Another scene which stays with you is towards the climax. Manjule, very metaphorically shows how despite being a 'Don' in your area, when you go out in the world, things are never too easy.

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However, there's inconsistency in the film's pre and post-interval narrative. While the first half is tight and keeps you intrigued for most part, the second half just falls all over the place as the social drama part takes over. Thankfully, it's not laced with multiple monologues from the protagonist. Even the humour that was quite organically peppered in first half, suddenly vanishes in the second, as focus shifts to issues like class divide, poverty, women's education, gender disparity et al.

Talking of the sports sequences in the film, there are several deja vu moments when you watch the team in action on the football field. You're reminded of highlights from Lagaan, Chak De India, Dangal, Sultan and many more and there's no novelty there. They're exciting to watch, no doubt, but you doesn't surprise you with anything different. Nonetheless, none of this would have meant anything if it was not for Amitabh Bachchan's screen presence. At 80, seeing him pull off this kind of a role is spectacular to say the least. He owns every frame he appears in onscreen and leaves you asking for more. The camaraderie and comfort he is shown to have with the kids moves you. And not for once does he try to overshadow the team he is coaching. Each kid in that team gets their moment to shine. Manjule's actors from Sairat--Aakash Thosar and Rinky Rajguru--have smaller parts in the ensemble cast but lend a noticeable support to the story.

To sum up, Jhund is not and should not be looked at as a sports biopic. It shows you real issues and what goes behind the scenes when you try to accomplish something that everyone says you can't.

Jhund Director: Nagraj Popatrao Manjule Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rinku Rajguru and others

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