Featuring the incredible Vidya Balan, Jalsa, is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. This brilliant film, directed by Suresh Triveni, also stars Shefali Shah in a pivotal role.
Jalsa presents the tale of a hit and run from the viewpoints of the driver, a mother, a journalist, and a cop. As the film goes on, questions are raised only to realize that the truth is rarely pure and never simple.
In a quick take review on seeing the film, I wrote that Jalsa is absolutely brilliant, riveting, maddening, full of drama and tension! Direction by Suresh Triveni creates an incredible next level of filmmaking. Shefali Shah is superb in every scene. What a standing ovation-worthy performance by Vidya Balan – she is outstanding. The best I have seen her on film. I highly recommend you watch this film now!
In this exclusive in-depth video interview, the ever-brilliant Vidya Balan gives insight...
Jalsa presents the tale of a hit and run from the viewpoints of the driver, a mother, a journalist, and a cop. As the film goes on, questions are raised only to realize that the truth is rarely pure and never simple.
In a quick take review on seeing the film, I wrote that Jalsa is absolutely brilliant, riveting, maddening, full of drama and tension! Direction by Suresh Triveni creates an incredible next level of filmmaking. Shefali Shah is superb in every scene. What a standing ovation-worthy performance by Vidya Balan – she is outstanding. The best I have seen her on film. I highly recommend you watch this film now!
In this exclusive in-depth video interview, the ever-brilliant Vidya Balan gives insight...
- 4/6/2022
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Jalsa (Amazon Prime Video)
Starring Vidya Balan, Shefali Shah, Vidhatri Bandi
Directed by Suresh Triveni
When you have two powerhouse actresses piloting a plot that leans toward a treatise on class-difference in a language that we’ve seen in Bong Joon-Ho’s overrated Parasite, you know you are in for something out of the ordinary.
Jalsa is a special film. It is more layered, provocative and evocative then the outer skin of the product would suggest. There is much going on beneath the surface than outwardly visibly. And how intellectually equipped are the two female heroes Shefali Shah and Vidya Balan to address the rush-hour traffic that the plot’s emotional velocity thrusts on them!
Balan and Shah are the kind of actors who always let us know the storms that hide their characters’ calm. I see Balan’s Maya Menon as much more messed up than she wants the world to see.
Starring Vidya Balan, Shefali Shah, Vidhatri Bandi
Directed by Suresh Triveni
When you have two powerhouse actresses piloting a plot that leans toward a treatise on class-difference in a language that we’ve seen in Bong Joon-Ho’s overrated Parasite, you know you are in for something out of the ordinary.
Jalsa is a special film. It is more layered, provocative and evocative then the outer skin of the product would suggest. There is much going on beneath the surface than outwardly visibly. And how intellectually equipped are the two female heroes Shefali Shah and Vidya Balan to address the rush-hour traffic that the plot’s emotional velocity thrusts on them!
Balan and Shah are the kind of actors who always let us know the storms that hide their characters’ calm. I see Balan’s Maya Menon as much more messed up than she wants the world to see.
- 3/18/2022
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Drama about a reporter who knows too much about a gruesome traffic incident checks off a grocery list of urgent questions without examining them
A young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind Paul Haggis’s Crash, 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.
Vidya Balan, who also stars in Triveni’s 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,...
A young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind Paul Haggis’s Crash, 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.
Vidya Balan, who also stars in Triveni’s 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,...
- 3/17/2022
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
MollywoodBankrolled by Swapna Cinemas, the glimpse video was unveiled on the festival of Ram Navami. Tnm StaffScreengrab/YouTubeMarking the occasion of Ram Navami (Hindu festival), the makers of Dulquer Salmaan’s upcoming film with director Hanu Raghavapudi, which is yet to be titled, revealed an introduction video of Dulquer’s character from the movie. Although Dulquer’s face is not seen in the introductory video, Dulquer is seen essaying the role of Lieutenant Ram in the period-drama. Watch the video here: The multilingual film is reportedly set in 1964. Produced by Priyanka Dutt, musician Vishal Chandrasekar has been roped in as the music composer for the movie. While it is produced by Swapna Cinemas, it is presented by Vyjayanthi Movies. Production House Swapna Cinema, which is bankrolling the film, took to Twitter to share the video with fans and wrote, "Lord Ram and his battle for love is legendary. Witness to...
- 4/22/2021
- by SaradhaU
- The News Minute
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