A blunt, abrasive and yet oddly compassionate Jagdishwar Mishra aka Jolly, a small-time struggling lawyer who moves from Kanpur to the city of Nawabs to pursue his dream of becoming a big-time lawyer.
Acting
Saurabh Shukla steals every scene as the exasperated judge.
Writing
Courtroom banter that actually lands in Hindi.
Production
Lucknow's decaying grandeur as character.
Director
Subhash Kapoor
Akshay Kumar
Jagdishwar "Jolly" Mishra
Annu Kapoor
Sachin Kantilal Mathur
Saurabh Shukla
Justice Surendralal Tripathi
Huma Qureshi
Pushpa Pandey
Kumud Mishra
Inspector Suryaveer Singh
Sayani Gupta
Hina Siddiqui
Ram Gopal Bajaj
Mr. Rizvi
Manav Kaul
Iqbal Qasim
Inaamulhaq
Mohammad Iqbal Quadri / Pandit Ramakrishan Premkrishan Saraswat
Avijit Dutt
V.K. Paul
Sanjay Mishra
Guru ji
Brijendra Kala
Shiv Kumar Dubey
Rajiv Gupta
Birbal
Vinod Nagpal
Zahir Siddiqui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sequel in name only—Akshay Kumar replaced Arshad Warsi from the 2013 original, sparking fan debates about which Jolly reigns supreme.
The film's fictional 'Peepli Live'-style media circus mirrors real Indian trials-by-television, particularly the 2006 BMW hit-and-run case it loosely references.
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