The movie revolves around the nation's best lawyer who is forced to defend an unsavory criminal after her daughter is kidnapped. Now she'll have to save a rapist from death sentence, as ransom, within 4 days.
Jazbaa roots its pulpy premise in the rising spate of crimes against women, but there is never any danger of taking a movie too seriously if it bathes its characters in jaundice-yellow light and re-imagines the colour of the sky as swamp-green.
For all the rot Gupta dwells on, there's something refreshing about Jazbaa within the wider Bollywood context: it'll make for brisk, pacy, adult entertainment - whichever side of the law you're on.
