Jogi, starring Diljit Dosanjh, wins hearts, movie review

Jogi takes place over the harrowing days. Around Delhi after the assassination of the time prime minister of India Indira Gandhi.

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Zafeer  - Writer
Jogi takes place over the harrowing days. Around Delhi after the assassination of the time prime minister of India Indira Gandhi on the 31st of October 1984.
The day in the lives of the movie’s lead actor Jogi begins as normal as any, affectionately arguing and enjoying their morning breakfast. Little lesser known the fact, that their lives are about to be shattered completely.
Jogi and his father are brutally attacked on a bus, he asks ‘What is our mistake ?’. The Beater replies, ‘you are a Sikh, that is your mistake’. A genocide in which over 3000 people died. Burnt alive men and women and even children. The movie without any hesitation shows the ‘institutional’ genocide of the Sikh community. Also Read

Jogi shows unfiltered incidents

Diljit Dosanjh‘s movie clearly shows how neither the politicians nor the police stepped forward to save the Sikh community and how they indirectly played a role in the mass genocide. They gave the goons and murderers free hand. Even in this dark cloud of sorrow and tears, there is a hope that Jogi and his two friends will save as many people as they can. One friend is Hindu and the other is Muslim.

The horrors underlying the theatres show the tremendous pain in the writings of the director and writers. The director and co-writer Ali Abbas Zafar is making an environment for feelings like tolerance and brotherhood. Ali is famous for his talent for constructing the heights of emotions. How he paints in broad and blunt strokes the pain that the protagonist and his family are going through.

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Great transitions in the movie

How the movie was dramatic in the first half. In the part where Jogi reluctantly cuts his hair. It is the only way to give him a chance to survive. In the scene he cuts his hair, to save his people, with a reflection in the water. Weeping without noise and slowly moved his scissors. That scene was soo deep and moving, it made the audience cry.

 

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