Genre: Drama Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Manav Kaul, Prakash Jha Director: Prakash Jha In his latest foray into India's dusty political badlands, director Prakash Jha parades an entire array of reprehensible goons out for their pound of flesh. But the tough-cop heroine of Jai Gangaajal is up against more than just individual law-breakers in the film. Her ire has a larger context: it is directed at an entire system that is completely at the mercy of the high and mighty. Jai Gangaajal has only tenuous links with the 2003 cop drama that it is meant to be a sequel to. Neither its characters nor its plot borrow anything at all from Gangaajal . It does touch upon the question of mob violence and instant justice, but there are hangings instead of blindings here. It also, in the process, addresses a whole lot of other issues: land rights, farmer suicides, ugly politics and police corruption. For good measu...
