![]() I could see at least four levels of message within Jawan, and I will discuss those one by one. Then what is so special about this film that prompts me to say it belongs alongside the iconic films of Bollywood? I will come to that now. To do that, they have used the film language that they know best and common people of India have known for generations. All that producer Gauri Khan-Shah Rukh and director Atlee want to do here is put their message across. It belongs to the genre where all of it is believable. If you detest all this and can’t manage to believe it for just three hours (which is called ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ in literary criticism), then this film is not for you. Like every other song-dance-action formula film, cars fly and the hero beats up twenty people on his own. There is not a single shot that stays with you once you leave the cinema hall. Jawan has no intention to go down that road. No, this is not what a film buff would call a masterpiece. If India does survive the current onslaught, the name of this film by Atlee will be uttered in the same breath as Mehboob Khan’s Mother India, long after I am gone and everyone reading this article is gone. This will find its place among the iconic films of Bollywood. Since he has shown so much courage, let me show some as well and declare: this is not a one-time watch. He has used every drop of his aura in Jawan to give the message that had to be given in this dark age of Indian history. Even then hardly anybody uses that influence to do what should be done for the country at a given point in time. Still less become so big as to influence not just the industry but the society he breathes in, the country he lives in. A lot of them become popular but only a handful scale the height needed to carry the entire industry on his shoulders. Hundreds of films are made, therefore many become heroes.
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