Jigra is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vasan Bala, who also co-wrote it with Debashish Irengbam. Produced by Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Alia Bhatt, Shaheen Bhatt and Soumen Mishra under Viacom18 Studios and Dharma Productions and Eternal Sunshine Productions. It stars Alia Bhatt as a troubled young woman who must rescue her brother (played by Vedang Raina) from a foreign prison, after he is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. It marks Alia Bhatt's 18th Film in a Lead Role.Principal photography took place in Mumbai and Singapore from October 2023 to February 2024. Jigra was theatrically released worldwide on 11 October 2024, coinciding with Vijayadashami, to mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences with praise directed towards Bhatt and Raina's performances, script and music.It was a box-office flop.
Jigra, There Is Much More To This Than Another Stunning Performance by Alia Bhatt Vasan Bala’s language of seclusion in Jigra is so unique and arresting , it feels like the first time that mainstream Hindi cinema has shown an inclination to grow out of its fixation with fables and comedies on superheroes.As Satya , Alia Bhatt is all for a good fight against injustice. Despite Alia’s author-back star turn,Vedang Raina as the wronged vulnerable sibling,gives a moving, star-making performance. Here is a rare actor who understands the lucidity and importance of silences.More than anything else, Jigra is a clenching, grasping rescue thriller . In several of the well-choreographed action sequences, I nearly forgot to breathe.Creating a near-perfect balance between physical and emotional scuffles, director Vasal Bala has moved with effortless virility from the quirkiness of Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota to the lifelike normality of a family-crisis double-underlined by a kinetic energy seldom seen in the action films of our country.
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