New Delhi: Subhash Kapoor’s Jolly LLB 3 takes a bold step by placing one of India’s most painful realities: farmers’ suicides and unlawful land grabs. And all of it is at the centre of a courtroom comedy-drama starring Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi and Saurabh Shukla. On paper, the subject could have easily tilted towards the overly sombre.

But the director manages to balance humour with heart. He fervently reminds us why the Jolly LLB franchise struck a chord in the first place.

The film begins with a clash of two beloved Jollys: Akshay Kumar’s Jagdishwar Mishra from Kanpur and Arshad Warsi’s Jagdish Tyagi from Meerut. Their daily courtroom duels quickly spiral into a much larger battle when they encounter Janki (Seema Biswas), a widow whose husband’s land was seized by a powerful company. Her grief becomes the emotional engine of the story, too. Haunted by the image of a widow on her knees, one’s heart would be pleading for justice against greed, carried forward by resilience.

At its core, Jolly LLB 3 mixes satire with sentiment. It occasionally juggles between melodrama and tongue-in-cheek humour. The first........

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