Media Magick

The theatrical trailer of “Jolly LLB 2″ shapes down to a sarcastic recipe: a facetious redundant foolish lawyer whose morality undergoes an enormous arousal during the progression of the movie. The same formula used in the first film. It returns to rendezvous the second film.

Akshay Kumar Plays the character of “Jolly LLB” rather than Arshad Warsi. Plus, he is not anymore called Jolly, but Jagdishwar Mishra with a wife Pushpa Pandey who seems to be in the habit of passing out drunk while her husband harangues her about life.

Huma Qureshi enacts the character of Akshay’s wife and looks convincing while unconscious. Let’s hope she has more to do than meeting Nitish Kumar’s approval.

The highlight of the first “Jolly LLB” film was Saurabh Shukla as the laconic sarcastic judge. It’s no different in “Jolly LLB 2″ where Shukla seems to have the best lines. Shukla has the time of his life lording over his lines. At one point, he tells the whining lawyer-hero to stop his ‘Nirupa Roy-type of dialogues’.

The film has a sharp small town ambience to it, aided by actors who know the milieu — like Annu Kapoor and Saurabh Shukla. This should be fun.

Writer-director Subhash Kapoor seemed to have lost his movie-making mojo on his last film “Guddu Rangeela”. In “Jolly LLB 2″, he seems to have got back his groove.