Jolly LLB
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| Directed by | Subhash Kapoor |
| Produced by | Fox Star Studios |
| Written by | Subhash Kapoor |
| Screenplay by | Subhash Kapoor |
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Arshad Warsi Boman Irani Amrita Rao Saurabh Shukla |
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Songs: Krsna Background score: Sanjoy Chowdhury |
| Cinematography | Anshuman Mahaley |
| Edited by | Sandeep Singh Bajeli |
| Distributed by | Fox Star Studios |
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Running time
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128 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹10 crore (US$1.5 million) |
| Box office | ₹37 crore (US$5.5 million) |
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| Soundtrack album by Krsna | ||||
| Released | 22 February 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 33:40 | |||
| Label | T-Series | |||
| Producer | Krsna | |||
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Jolly LLB is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language courtroom black comedy-drama film, written and directed by Subhash Kapoor. The film stars Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani and Amrita Rao in the lead roles. The theatrical trailer was revealed on 8 January 2013. Released on 15 March 2013, the film revolves around the early life of lawyer Jagdish Tyagi a.k.a. Jolly (played by Warsi) and focuses on his attempt to earn six innocent wage earners their rights and his journey against the monopolistic behavior of the rich and judicial corruption. The storyline is inspired by the 1999 hit-and-run case of Sanjeev Nanda and a minor reference to Priyadarshini Mattoo case.
It is the first installment of Jolly LLB (film series)
The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, while Saurabh Shukla won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film has been remade as Manithan. A sequel, Jolly LLB 2 was released in February 2017.
The film begins with a drunk Rahul Dewan (Rajeev Siddhartha), racing in a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado against a Mercedes, after he is seduced by a woman in the passenger seat. He loses control and crashes into a wall on the footpath by the road. The film cuts to a court scene where Jagdish Tyagi a.k.a. Jolly (Arshad Warsi), an LLB (law-degree) graduate defending a surgeon against a Public interest litigation (PIL) filed against him after the surgeon had his son operate upon a patient in his pursuit of Guinness Book of World Records. Jolly loses the case but decides to move to the capital Delhi to try his luck. He happens to see prominent criminal lawyer Tejinder Rajpal (Boman Irani) defending Rahul Dewan in a sessions court. Rahul Dewan is accused of causing death under the influence of alcohol. Rajpal convinces the judge that prosecution had no evidence to implicate Rahul Dewan and he was being deliberately targeted by the media as he was from a rich family, resulting in Dewan's acquittal.
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