Jhund, starring Big B shows Bollywood the other way of doing it! Breaking 5 stereotypical filmmaking methods on the ground, the film definitely carves a challenging pathway in the quest.
1. Unlike other films in Bollywood, Jhund doesn’t lecture you on patriotism rather shows you a different dimension to it. As The Print rightly points out, “If a team is preparing for an international match in a Bollywood sports film, you will see lectures on patriotism. In Chak De! India (2007), coach Kabir Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) lectures his players on India. But Jhund asks an innocent question through a boy named Kartik – “What is Bharat”? A question smilingly unanswered by Coach Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan). Nargaj Manjule uses his film to demonstrate Ambedkar’s message to show that strong fraternity can transcend boundaries of caste. He does not use football to build fraternity, he merely tells us what fraternity is and how the idea of a nation is delusional without it.”
2. It gives you a momentum shock with its characters and does not typify the way of introducing each one of them slowly and steadily like it is in other films.
3. It gives you a chunk of a whole new language, a new location, that is Nagpur. The film doesn’t stereotype on the foremost grounds of Dahi Handi festival or Ganpati festival like it’s been in most Bollywood films.
4. Well, if you remember Chak De! India and how it’s been solely about SRK in the film, Jhund doesn’t focus on Big B but the hero is the newcomer Ankush Gedam.
5. Making the audience get acquainted with newer language, newer religion and newer prospect.