{"id":42559,"date":"2022-03-18T03:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/mar\/17\/jalsa-review-hit-and-run-bollywood-drama-speeds-past-social-issues"},"modified":"2022-03-18T03:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:30:35","slug":"jalsa-review-hit-and-run-bollywood-drama-speeds-past-social-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42559","title":{"rendered":"Jalsa review \u2013 hit-and-run Bollywood drama speeds past social issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drama about a reporter who knows too much about a gruesome traffic incident checks off a grocery list of urgent questions without examining them<\/p>\n<p>A young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni\u2019s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theguardian\/2005\/aug\/12\/1\">Paul Haggis\u2019s Crash<\/a>, and not in a good way. Just like the painfully unsubtle Oscar winner, here a car accident and coincidences throw a group of people from different backgrounds into difficult dilemmas, forcing them to confront tough moral questions.<\/p>\n<p>Vidya Balan, who also stars in Triveni\u2019s debut Tumhari Sulu, plays Maya Menon, a tough-as-nails reporter priding herself on her unwavering honesty. Her introduction suggests that the film might be a female-driven character study, as Maya is torn between her work and her disabled son. But Jalsa then changes gears dramatically, revealing that Maya is the driver behind the gruesome hit-and-run. To make matters worse, the young girl is the daughter of Maya\u2019s trusted cook Ruksana (Shefali Shah), who has become an integral part of the family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/mar\/17\/jalsa-review-hit-and-run-bollywood-drama-speeds-past-social-issues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drama about a reporter who knows too much about a gruesome traffic incident checks off a grocery list of urgent questions without examining themA young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni\u2019s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind Pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,2179,71,508,69,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-crime-films","category-culture","category-drama-films","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42561,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559\/revisions\/42561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}