I didn’t want to leave this show. Mera bass chaley toh I wont even leave this review, there is enough depth here for me to keep swimming for hours more.
Jubilee Series Review by Sucharita Tyagi - Jubilee isn’t Vikramditya and his writers looking back at an era gone by and saying “oho hum toh galat sadi mein paida ho gaye, filmein toh tab banaa karti thi”. The gaze towards hindi cinema of the 40s and 50 isnt romaticising or fetishing that age of film making, I also don’t believe the attempt is to eulogise or pay a tribute. Even whehn caharacters are showing saing dialogue like “mainey hira chaat liya hai”, the attempt isn’t to ridicule its ridiculousness. Instead they focus mostly on the people in these stories giving them arcs and relationships with each other which gives Jubilee its real character. Nandish Singh Sandhu is made to look STRIKINGLY like a curly-haired young Prithviraj Kapoor in a screen test tape, Jay Khanna father, played by Arun Govil is a wealthy theatre owner from karachi now living in a Sion refugee camp, unki dialogue mein, unke gaano mein, unke shadow puppet theatre mein joh who camp ke bachhon ke liye organize karet hain, poori kahaani hai, no embellishments needed. Camp ki doctor, sadak par joote banaata ke benevolent kaarigar, the sikh gatekeeper at roy studios, Ram Kapoor as jovial financer, Sweta Basu Prasad as a wife along for the ride, conflicted between her duties and her sense of rigt and wrong. Movie star ka bhai desperate to get away from his well loved brother, ek Sindhi Jhalani joh trigger happy hai kyunki bantwaare ne usko kathor banaa diya hai, but everytime it comes to him ACTUALLY getting down to the violence he keeps threatening, he somehow ALWAYS finds a different solution in his heart, never actually shown raising a fist.
Jubilee is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language period drama streaming series on Amazon Prime Video. The series is created and directed by Vikramaditya Motwane Produced by Andolan Films, Phantom Studios and Reliance Entertainment. Original language: Hindi Original network: Amazon Video Original release: 7 April 2023 Story by: Vikramaditya Motwane; Soumik Sen
