Jolly LLB
Jolly LLB is a 2013 Indian Hindi courtroom comedy drama film, written and directed by Subhash Kapoor. The film stars Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani and Amrita Rao in lead roles. The theatrical trailer was revealed onJanuary 2013. The film released onMarch 2013. The film revolves around the early life of Lawyer Jagdish Tyagi aka Jolly and focuses on his attempt to earninnocent wage earners their rights and his journey against the monopolistic behavior of the rich and judicial corruption. The storyline is inspired by the 1999 hitandrun case of Sanjeev Nanda and a minor reference to Priyadarshini Mattoo case.
The film begins with a drunk Rahul Dewan Rahul Siddhartha, racing in an Sports Utility Vehicle against a car, after he is seduced by a woman in that car. He loses control and crashes into a wall on the footpath by the road. The film cuts to a court scene where Jagdish Tyagi aka Jolly Arshad Warsi, an LLB lawdegree 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 Dewans acquittal.Rajpal, though, is not satisfied with the fee paid by the Dewans. Jolly, desperate to have some money and fame, decides to pursue the case and files a PIL in the court against Rahul Dewans acquittal. After initially reprimanding Jolly for his mistakes in filing the PIL and taking the press reports as an evidence, Justice Tripathi Saurabh Shukla gives a date for hearing and warns Jolly to collect some evidence before the hearing. He then runs into Albert Pinto Harsh Chhaya, who claims to have witnessed the accident. Then Jolly introduces him as a witness in the court and Judge Tripathi, after crossexamining him, gives a date for the next hearing. He also summons Rahul Dewan to be present in the court for the hearing. Jolly becomes a celebrity overnight and is admired by Kaul who donates a room in his restaurant to Jolly for using it as his office. However, Jollys plans turn upside down, when Albert Pinto reveals to him that he is no witness, but a crony of Rajpal and it was part of a plan to extract more money from
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