Patna Shuklla Review: Despite Jolly LLB Flashbacks, Raveena Tandon’s film is worth watching

Review of Patna Shuklla: Disney+Hotstar released the intriguing movie Patna Shuklla this past weekend. The film, which was directed by Vivek Budakoti and Rajendra Tiwari, was released only on the internet instead than in theaters. It deftly examines the horrifying fraud that wrecks the lives and careers of poor students. Raveena Tandon, who portrays a lawyer in the movie, is the main character.

Tanvi Shukla, a lawyer in the Patna District Court who has been reduced to drafting affidavits, is portrayed by Raveena Tandon. While Rinki Kumari is the main character in Patna Shuklla, Raveena was the movie’s star. Anushka Kaushik’s character Rinki is the poor rickshaw puller’s daughter. She is listed as having failed her bachelor’s test when the results are announced. She is certain that her result should have been higher than 60%. She earned it via hard labor.

Patna Shuklla veers into the courtroom, where a fight breaks out between the overconfident Neelkanth Mishra (Chandan Roy Sanyal), who is representing Vihar University, where Rinki had previously studied, and Tanvi Shukla (Raveena Tandon), a lawyer in the Patna District Court representing Rinki Kumari (Anushka Kaushik), the daughter of a poor rickshaw puller.

Patna Shuklla has a striking resemblance to Jolly LLB, a film in which Boman Irani portrays a haughty attorney representing a young man accused of driving over men and women who are camped out on the sidewalk. It was obvious he was inebriated. Sanyal seems to draw a lot of inspiration from Boman, while Raveena has elements that we saw in Arshad Warsi’s portrayal of Jolly. Numerous aspects of the film itself mirror Jolly LLB. Judge Tripathi (Saurabh Shukla) and Judge Jha (the late Satish Kaushik) in Patna Shukla have a striking resemblance.

This is not meant to diminish Patna Shuklla to a non-entity, however. It has captivating moments when it does. Raveena looks amazing in her new role as a lawyer fighting for a poor girl whose life and future are in the hands of a dishonest university administration that secretly exchanges the grades of wealthy students with dismal records for those of academically gifted young people without access to money, influence, or political support.

Unquestionably one of the finest movies I have watched recently, Patna Shuklla suffers a little bit in my opinion due to its tendency to take a little too much from Jolly LLB. However, the test fraud is a highly lucrative industry, and the job is delivered on schedule.