Jai Bhim an OTT film in Amazon Prime is based on a true story of an young lawyer who fought for ill treated Tribals .
The lawyer in real life later would become a judge .on whom the film is based .
Directed by Gnanavel with Surya doing the pivotal role of Justice Chandru the film is crafted exceptionally well .
Even though Reservations have existed for seven decades in our country we all know we still have stark poor ,ill treated lower castes and tribals, who do not fall in any slot as some have no documents and no vote and hence are discriminated against .
Its also a fact such poor are ill treated by powerful officialdom .
Even though the Reservations have been there for last seven decades ,the benifits are accrued by those who benifitted while a large number are still ill treated and marginalised .
The film tells of how a tribe of Irulars who live catching snakes and other reptiles ,are nomads with many not having papers .
The film is based in rural Tamilnadu and timed aroung 1994 .
Three of them are main accused in a robbery case which was hoisted on them and who are tortured .
The second part is on a brilliant lawyer who fights for these people and files a Habeus Corporis petition in the High court to investigate the police torture .
Its hard work and an uphill task for the lawyer to get to the bottom of things fighting powerful people .
At the end the tragic death of one of the irulars in custody is brought out and the police men who did the deed get arrested .
Brilliant fast paced script .
The torture bit in first half of the poor Irulars both men and women is painful to watch .
We are part of the efforts of the lawyer who works hard to get to the truth .
The Court room scenes are fast paced logical ,and restricted to no cinematic scenes .
Its time Reservations beniffited such tribals
In the end there is some closure
There has been accusations of changing the SI a xtian into an upper caste Hindu if thats true its an agenda
Goodbye
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