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This is Indian film, famous for its authenticity and sharpness. No matter what type of story it is, it can be well controlled. Even if there are a lot of singing and dancing elements, it does not affect the plot experience. On the contrary, it forms a unique Indian characteristic.
The 2016 global hit "Dangal!" "Dad", " toilet hero " that hit the screen in 2017. Almost every year there is a blockbuster movie in India. The title of India's hit movie in 2021 belongs to this masterpiece with a high score of 8.7 called "Jay Bhim". It is true, cruel, and bold, and even the top standards such as the police's disregard for human life are dared to be presented directly in front of the audience. The movie watching process can be described as high-energy throughout.
1. Taking human life seriously
The story opens in a tribe in India composed of people with low racial surnames. The protagonists are husband Rajakannu, wife Senjani, and lawyer Chandru who fights for justice and human rights. Rajakannu and his wife Sengani live a poor but happy life, making a living by catching snakes and doing hard labor. Recently, Rajakannu is working hard to make money, hoping to move his wife out of the dirty mud house and live in a clean brick house.
No one expected that misfortune would suddenly come: Jewels were stolen from the home of a powerful man where Rajakannu once worked. The police who came to investigate hurriedly collected several fingerprints and cigarette butt evidence, and then arrested the man who had come to arrest the poisonous snake a few days ago. Jakanu puts on the "thief" hat.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the so-called fingerprint evidence was left by Rajakannu when he captured the venomous snake. Could the police not know? They just choose to turn a blind eye for the sake of case handling rate and treat people of lower races as pariahs without any human rights.
In order to get Rajakannu to admit the crime, the police used all kinds of cruel methods. Either hanging Rajakannu in mid-air and beating him with a wooden stick, or kicking Rajakannu in the chest. At the end of the violence, Rajakannu could no longer swallow the food completely and died tragically in prison.
What makes people even more angry is that in the face of such a tragedy, the police's first reaction was not to admit their mistakes but to cover up the facts, and even went so far as to lie to the outside world about Rajakannu's escape from prison.
The police are so powerful that Rajakannu’s wife Sengani has no power to fight back. If she had not been lucky enough to meet a righteous lawyer named Chandru, she would not even have the chance to stand in court to defend her husband...
2. Fight for justice
Starting from the appearance of lawyer Chandru, the story of "Jay Beam" officially reaches its climax. The confrontation between the police and the victim's family Sengani in the court is a metaphor for the oppression of the lower class people by the powerful in Indian society at that time. Chandru is the only light in the darkness and the only one who goes against the grain.
The "courtroom drama" in this story is the biggest highlight. Faced with a large amount of perjury presented by the police, Chandru remained calm. Little by little, we worked backward from the details to accurately discover the loopholes in the police's perjury, and then personally went to the site to investigate and find witnesses that could prove that the police had committed perjury, thus defeating the hypocritical police officers.
The lines in this scene are very dense, but they are not boring at all. "If the victims do not get justice, then they will be harmed more than the injustice they suffered." Such profound lines are one after another, fundamentally speaking for the people at the bottom. At the same time, the vicious behavior of the police towards people with lower racial surnames shows the irony of "public power": if insults and torture were public powers, then there would be no justice in this world.
In stark contrast, is the cowardly attitude of the police. When facing people with a lower class and lower racial surname than himself, he is arrogant and beating and insulting is commonplace. However, when facing lawyers and judges who are more powerful than himself, he instantly turns into a useless person with evasive eyes.
On the surface it seems that the police represent power, but in fact the government that turns a blind eye to the police is the biggest ugliness. Lawyer Chandru exposed all the crimes of the police and the government in court. In a sense, he was completely on the opposite side of the judiciary and lifted the last fig leaf of the law. It can be said that he was very daring to take pictures.
3. Purgatory on Earth
The biggest reason why Rajakannu was labeled a thief by the police is because he belongs to the lowest racial surname in Indian society. From this point of view, the film leads to the presentation of the social issue of "Indian caste system".
opens with the highlight of "People with lower racial surnames being released from prison". After finally being released from prison (almost all of them were imprisoned after being wrongly accused), they were immediately charged with new crimes by the police and driven to a vehicle to go to another prison. Serve sentence. In the picture, the wife's face is full of tears but she is helpless and can only watch her husband leave her; the elderly father chases the leaving vehicle with trembling steps, but can't find any way to keep his son behind.
In the second half of the film, when lawyer Chandru and the police visited tribes with lower racial surnames, their conversations with people were even more shocking: someone was accused of stealing a motorcycle, but before that he could not even ride a bicycle; some children were He was taken to jail and beaten because the police couldn't find his father so he needed another person to vent his anger; he even insulted his wife in front of her husband. It can be said to be a purgatory on earth...
From the long and brutal scenes of the Rajakannu family being tortured to death and being beaten by the police, to the long and dramatic descriptions of other people with lower racial surnames accusing the police of abusing them, "Jay Bhim" truly presents the Indian social problem of the unfair caste system in front of the audience, completing the exposure and discussion. From this starting point of reflecting reality alone, the film deserves five stars.
4. Breaking Classes and Prejudices
Although the overall story atmosphere of "Jay Beam" is the oppression of the people at the bottom being trampled by the police, the director has not given up on the description of "hope" and outlined the people at the bottom from every detail. Efforts to change current life difficulties.
works during the day and learns language and writing at night, believing that everything else will follow after learning to read; individuals gather into a huge group force to protest against police brutality and bravely protect the dignity of the tribe. Even those with low-racial surnames classified as the lowest class have never bowed to fate and prejudice, but have bravely fought for the right to speak.
Under the heavy story of Rajakannu being beaten to death by the police, these resistances became the greatest healing. Especially the meaningful shot at the end of the film: the little girl who used to be obedient to her mother Sengani finally became brave and confident and sat upright. She was no longer the incomprehensible being of people with lower racial surnames in the past, but could see. Understand newspapers. In just one shot, all the success after the struggle is shown.
According to information, the story "Jay Beam" is adapted from a real case. In the 1990s, there were a large number of unjust, false and wrongful cases in India that were full of loopholes, and countless innocent people at the bottom died tragically due to the brutal police force. If the struggle of the tribal people with lower racial surnames in the film is a sporadic spark, then lawyer Chandru who speaks out for human rights is the biggest boost. And this figure is real in the real society of India. In just 6 years, he has presided over 96,000 unfair cases, breaking down class and injustice, and finding justice for countless wronged and weak people.
From this perspective, "Jay Beam" is actually a "re-presentation" of that period of history. The police who were supposed to uphold justice turned into violent law enforcement villains, the judicial system where officials protected each other was ugly and sinful, and the dignity of the people at the bottom was trampled under the feet of the powerful and their lives were ignored. These incidents all happened. At a time when India's social environment is still dark and the caste system is still rampant, it is extremely amazing that the film is so bold and bold, and the title of best of the year is well-deserved.
