Jolly LLB - Watch it

Both Jolly LLB and Special 26 are in a way an indictment of our legal system in contrasting styles. While I enjoyed both movies, I think Special 26 is a much better film and manages to keep you engaged right till the end. I am not a person who like to appreciate a film for anything but how well its story line is conveyed. A lot of friends like movies for their songs or the photography – but I would rather watch a good National Geographic documentary than clap for a Pi. Having said that I think you should try and watch Special 26, except for a few badly inserted songs as such the movie is good. Jolly LLB gives you a glimpse of the life of small court lawyers, judges and our great police system. But unfortunately it has to give in to the ‘idealistic’ notion that poor people and small time lawyers can get justice in India. They should have tried to portray reality as it exists – this is where I would like to fault the movie. Except for some songs and the unbelievable scene where Amrita Rao a small town girl comes to co-habit with her boyfriend Arshad Warsi (well in an earlier scene she does not allow him to kiss her – something which happens in small towns regularly) – I think it is better than watch a bird brained story from Yash Raj films just because it has Anushka Sharma, Katrina or a 50+ Shahrukh trying to play a Armyman (something he did when he was at the start of his career on TV)