Jai Bhim – This Movie has a Powerful Message
Jai Bhim, produced by Surya and Jyotika, is a Tamil movie – legal drama (also released in Hindi and Telugu) that is based on true incidents of police brutality in the early ’90s. If you could handle all those brutal scenes, this is an excellent movie to watch. It’s available on Amazon Prime Video.
This blog post is not a movie review but is an attempt to decode the message behind Jai Bhim. To be specific, this is my interpretation of the message conveyed in the movie.
If a tribal pregnant woman without money or education could fight and win against powerful forces like the heads of the police department and the public prosecution bench, ANY OF US CAN DO IT. Jai Bhim!
You should watch the movie to understand what powerful forces and hopeless situations this woman is up against, but she still stands up to bring justice to her husband who is reported to have escaped from the police station during an enquiry. It’s important to note that no one from her community even had ration cards or voter IDs.
This movie shows that when there is the will to fight, and a justified cause, various forces align with us – irrespective of our limitations. In this movie, for example, the lawyer fights the case for the woman without taking any money and a senior police officer helps with the investigation against the local cops to bring out the truth.
I guess, with ‘education’ and ‘social conditioning’ most people lose their will to fight. If we don’t fight our battles and stand up for what we believe is right, who will? Irrespective of the result, we will still have the satisfaction of having fought, having given our best.
That’s what this movie inspires us to do.
Kudos to Surya and Jyotika for making a great movie that has an IMDB rating of 9.6, the highest for any Indian movie to date.
Destination Infinity
Yes, I agree! I also like the message never accept a mistake not made even if you die that acceptance will fall on our community forever. It’s like how a small stone can smash a fragile glass.
Hats off to both the producer and director for boldly reproducing the gruesome incident into a feature film.
Yeah, I forgot to complement the director – Mr. Linguswamy in my post. A great movie made on a good subject!
Destination Infinity
I will try to watch Jai Bhim. Tomorrow is off. Guru Nanak Birthday.
Thanks for the post.
Watched Jai Bhim. But in Hindi. I was not confident of new age Tamil. Liked the movie.
So much of will power on the part of Rajakannu. That is how tribals are. Also strong on the part of Senganni to not accept money.
A modern man would have done the opposite.
However maybe there are men like Chandru, the lawyer in modern world.
We need more men like Chandru today.
There always are people like Chandru. As a society, we should identify them and encourage them.
Destination Infinity
I watched the movie. I like it. Good story. But i would consider this a terror porn.
Sorry. Wrong word. It should be Torture Porn.
Ya, the torture scenes were overdone. But the movie somehow manages to give a positive and inspirational vibe.
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