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Movie Review: Satyamev Jayate 2

SoftwareTechIT November 26, 2021

Activist Dadasaheb Balram Azad (John Abraham) is looked upon like a messiah by his villagers near Varanasi. He not only has the largest heart, he has the largest muscles as well. He’s not averse to beating up people to get his point across. He’s killed by his political rivals and his wife goes into a deep coma. His twin sons, Satya Balram Azad (John Abraham) and Jay Balram Azad (John Abraham) grow up to be a politician and a cop respectively. They join hands to become extra-judicial vigilantes to kill the corrupt and make UP a crime-free state. 


Every melodramatic film trope has been sprinkled liberally on the film by director and writer Milap Milan Zaveri. Hindu-Muslim unity -- there’s a scene where Jay catches a Quran which was thrown in the air and then thrashes the culprit. The famous blood-transfusion scene from Amar Akbar Anthony -- Dadsaheb battles a hundred goons while giving blood to his wife. The karwa chauth song, where the festival is shown being celebrated en masse by the entire population, the wedding sangeet song, the devar-bhabhi ched chad, the twins covering for each other, even the famous Mother India sequence -- instead of Nargis and her sons, Dadasaheb alone tills the soil and has so much strength that he can use the yoke to make a large fissure. In short, everything that can make you emotional has been thrown in the mix. 


The brothers are shown targeting everyone from corrupt politicians, careless doctors, callous policemen, to beggar mafia and rapists. The common man’s fantasy of delivering rough justice to the carpetbaggers and criminals of the world has been played on a loop. To make things look relevant, issues such as the lack of oxygen in hospitals, the humiliation faced by the rape victims, the plight of child beggars, the corrupt builder-politican nexus, the problems of debt-ridden farmers get talked about in the film. Each such problem can be solved by killing the most corrupt in the system. This is the final solution propagated by the film. 


There’s no subtlety involved in the film. Each character screams his or her lines. And no one talks normally. Every line is a punch dialogue. The background score too is ultra loud and suspenseful. The violence -- and there’s lots of it in the film -- is quite graphic. 


Maybe the masses need some kind of escapist fantasy -- we don’t know. Nothing has been going right for the common man in any case. Maybe they need a gory revenge fantasy to get their minds off COVID-19, unemployment, inflation...the works. The best thing about the film is that it espouses communal harmony -- in an extremely loud, shouting from the rooftops kind of way. And it tells you that if you unite, then you can take care of corrupt politicians yourself. 


It’s John Abraham’s first ever triple role and he’s risen admiringly to the occasion. He never flinches from delivering the most over-the-top lines in all three of his avatars. It helps that all three are chiselled as help and have the same height and body structure, not to mention voice. We think he looked the best in his farmer avatar. The rustic clothes and handlebar moustache suited him. Full marks to him for his sincerity towards such a topsy-turvy script. Divya Khosla Kumar makes her comeback to Hindi cinema with this film. She gets her moment when she commands her husband and brother-in-law to wreak havoc against the rapists. She has a good screen presence and well, let’s see what she chooses next...


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