The State vs. Jolly LL.B 2, better known as Jolly LL.B 2, is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film written and directed by Subhash Kapoor. Akshay Kumar plays the titular character, Jagdishwar Mishra, replacing the 2013 film's lead actor, Arshad Warsi, while Huma Qureshi, Annu Kapoor and Kumud Mishra, as well as Saurabh Shukla, who reprises his role from the 2013 original, star. The film is based in Lucknow. The story follows a lawyer who fights a case against a ruthless and powerful advocate to bring justice to the deceased victim of a fake encounter involving a corrupt police officer.
Jolly LL.B. 2 opened worldwide on 10 February 2017, and made on an investment of ₹450 million (US$5.4million), earned ₹2 billion (US$24million) worldwide to become a major critical and commercial success, with praise for the writing and execution by Subhash Kapoor, as well as the performances by Akshay Kumar, Shukla and Annu Kapoor, as well as Mishra.
A third instalment of the franchise has been planned, with Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi, and Saurabh Shukla returning in the key roles.
Plot
Jagdishwar "Jolly" Mishra (Akshay Kumar) is a Lucknow-based lawyer who stays with his wife Pushpa (Huma Qureshi) and son. Despite being a lawyer, he works as a menial assistant to one of the most famous lawyers of Lucknow, Mr. Rizvi, for whom his father had worked as an assistant for 30 years. He is street smart and dreams of his own law chamber. Seeking to arrange money for his own chamber, Jolly lies to a widow, Hina Qasim, telling her that Mr. Rizvi will take her case and that the fee is 200,000 rupees. When Hina finds out that Jolly lied to her, she commits suicide. Jolly soon discovers that Hina's husband, Iqbal Qasim, was killed in a fake encounter on 13 August 2015, the very next day of their marriage, by Inspector Suryaveer Singh, who depicted him as Mohammed Iqbal Quadri, a terrorist, in official documents. Singh also shot a fellow constable, Baldev Singh Bhadauria, in order to show the encounter as genuine, leading to his death.
Filled with guilt, Jolly decides to fight Hina's case and files a PIL. Singh then hires Lucknow's best lawyer, Pramod Mathur (Annu Kapoor), to fight his case. After reprimanding Jolly for his mistakes in filing the PIL and no credible evidence, Justice Sunderlal Tripathi (Saurabh Shukla) gives a date for hearing and warns Jolly to collect some evidence before the hearing.
Jolly is able to get a copy of the FIR and other papers regarding the case with the help of a bookie, Guru Ji, in Varanasi by paying him a sum of ₹500,000 by selling his own chamber. Later, he is able to track Ram Kumar Bhadauria, the son of the constable who died in the fake encounter. This backfires as Mathur uses his power and money to tamper with the narco test video of the witness. However, even though Justice Tripathi orders disciplinary action against Jolly for showing allegedly dishonest evidence, the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, who turns out to be Mr. Rizvi, gives Jolly four days of time to prove himself, as he feels guilty for not fighting the case himself.
Jolly and Pushpa, while analyzing Hina and Iqbal Qasim's wedding album, notice an unknown cop from Kashmir called Fahim Bhat. Jolly travels to Kashmir and gets confirmation of the truth from Fahim, who visited Lucknow to identify the terrorist during Iqbal Qasim and Hina's wedding. Fahim, now suspended and arrested in a fake case, reveals that Qasim, who died in the encounter, was not the real terrorist and that he also filed a complaint against Singh. Jolly flees with Fahim to Lucknow. Meanwhile, Jolly coaxes the police commissioner, V.K. Paul, to tell the truth, or else he will file a PIL against all the encounters done by him. Mathur tries his best to avoid Fahim from giving a statement in the court as he stops the proceedings in the courtroom by sitting on the floor in protest. Justice Tripathi also sits on the floor, refusing to be swayed by Mathur's tactics.
At midnight, Justice Tripathi ignores Mathur's plea and decides to carry on the proceedings. After Fahim's statement, Jolly, with help from Paul, presents Quadri, who fakes his identity as a BrahminPandit. After initial reluctance from Justice Tripathi, Jolly rapidly fires questions to Iqbal by asking him details of the Shastras. Iqbal finally admits that he is the terrorist, Quadri, and had bribed Singh to set him free. Justice Tripathi then declares Iqbal Qasim innocent and orders Quadri's arrest, giving life imprisonment to Singh along with his accomplices on charges of murder, erasing evidence, misleading the court, and showing false evidence as Jolly wins the case.
Cast
Akshay Kumar as Advocate Jagdishwar "Jolly" Mishra
Huma Qureshi as Pushpa Mishra (née Pandey), Jolly's wife
Saurabh Shukla as Judge Sunderlal Tripathi, a judge transferred from Delhi High Court, who knows another person with the same name as Jolly (Arshad Warsi); Shukla reprises his role from Jolly LLB
Sanjay Mishra as Guru Ji: a former police constable in Delhi Police who arranges evidences for lawyers including Jolly from Delhi and Jolly from Lucknow; Mishra reprises his role from Jolly LLB
Brijendra Kala as Shiv Kumar Dubey, the man who arranges chamber for Jolly
Yakub Sayed as Jugal Kishore Mathur, Mathur's father
Gurpal Singh as Judge Harbhajan Singh
Rati Shankar Tripathi as Chacha in the opening mass cheating scene
Mir Sarwar as Kashmir Police Inspector Hidayat Baig
Ajay Singh as Rizvi's assistant
Production
Casting
The film was announced in July 2016, where the lead actor Akshay Kumar had revealed his first look for the film.[7] It was reported that Arshad Warsi, who played the lead role in the previous installment, was replaced by Kumar.[8] Actress Huma Qureshi was signed as the female lead, pairing opposite Kumar.[9][10]Annu Kapoor was signed as the antagonist of the film pitted against Kumar.[11]
Development
Principal photography of the film began in Mumbai.[12] The major parts of the film were shot in Lucknow in a one-month schedule.[13][14][15] It was further reported that the first schedule was completed in September 2016.[16] The second schedule was shot in Varanasi in later September 2016.[17][18] A stunt sequence was shot in Ganga river, where Kumar declined to use a stunt double.[19] The final schedule of the film was shot in Manali, Himachal Pradesh in October 2016.[20] Kumar shot his scenes in a time span of 30 days.[21] A promotional song was shot in Mumbai in December 2016.[22]
Criticism
Depiction of Indian judicial system
The film's title and depiction of the Indian legal system created a controversy. Advocate Ajaykumar Waghmare filed a case at the Bombay High Court for removal of the word LLB and stated that the use of the word is a "deliberate attempt" to insult the Indian legal system.[23] The Bombay High Court appointed a 3-member committee to examine the content of the film. The Supreme Court of India also appointed a 3-member panel, consisting of Chief Justice J. S. Khehar and Justices N. V. Ramana and D. Y. Chandrachud, to review the film.[24][25]
Lawsuit from Bata
The film's trailer had shown a derogate reference to Bata Shoes, a shoe brand. The firm Kochhar & Co, on behalf of Bata India, had issued a legal notice to the filmmakers for the comment and filed a lawsuit of ₹30 million (US$360,000).[26] The CBFC had edited out the reference to the brand with respect to the filed lawsuit.[27]
The music for the film is composed by Manj Musik, Meet Bros, Vishal Khurana and Chirantan Bhatt while the lyrics have been written by Shabbir Ahmed, Junaid Wasi, Manj Musik and Raftaar. The song "Jolly Good Fellow" incorporates lyrics from the English folk song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow".[31] The full movie soundtrack[32] was released on 13 January 2017 and it consists of four songs[33] which includes one Qawaali song too. The music rights are acquired by T-Series.
The film opened with a domestic collection of ₹132.0million becoming Akshay Kumar's eighth highest opener and second highest of the year following Raees.[34] The film shown growth in next two days collecting ₹17.31 crores and ₹19.95 crores on second and third day of release respectively and took its first domestic weekend collection to a total of ₹504.6million.[3] It became second highest first weekend collecting Bollywood film of the year after Raees.[35] Its cumulative collection in next four days evaluated to ₹26.25 crores and with that, the film scored first domestic week of ₹777.1million.[3] After Raees, Jolly LLB 2 is second highest domestic first week collecting film of 2017. As of 2 March, the film has collected ₹ 1172.4million domestically And It Declared As Superhit By BOI.[36]
Overseas
The film during its week, collected ₹49.6 million (US$590,000) from North America (United States and Canada), ₹10.4 million (US$120,000) from United Kingdom, ₹58.6 million (US$700,000) from United Arab Emirates, ₹100,000 (US$1,200) from Malaysia, ₹10.6 million (US$130,000) from Australia and ₹4.4 million (US$53,000) from New Zealand.[3] The film collected ₹134.0million from overseas during first week which is second highest for a Bollywood film of 2017.[37]
After the success of the second installment, makers have confirmed to make a third part of this franchise. The film is titled Jolly LLB 3, with both Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi reprising their roles of Jolly along with Shukla reprising his role.[40][41][42] The film also stars Amrita Rao and Huma Qureshi, reprising their roles from the first two installments.[43][44]
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