Jawan

Jawan

In 1993, somewhere in Northeast India, a man is thrown off a plane into a river. The man is found unconscious by a tribal group, whose leader takes him in and cares for him for several months. When the tribe is attacked, the man wakes up and saves them. He becomes the tribe's messiah but is revealed to have lost his memory. A boy in the tribe promises he will find out one day the man's identity. 30 years later in Mumbai, 2023, Azad, an IPS officer who is the jailer of Belamvada women's prison, hijacks a Mumbai Metro train with a group of six inmates: Lakshmi, Eeram, Iskra, Kalki, Helana, and Janvi, holding the passengers hostage. When a police officer captures one of the group, Azad ties him up but doesn't hurt him. Azad also shoots a female hostage. He negotiates with Force One officer Narmada Rai to ask the Agriculture Minister to send ₹400 billion (US$4.2 billion) in exchange for the hostages' lives. During this time, he narrates to a passenger named Alia the tragedy behind the suicide of Kalki's father, a poor farmer, who was harassed by the bank officers over his inability to pay loans to the hostages, so Kalki killed the bank officer. Kalee Gaikwad, a global arms dealer, learns that Alia, who is his daughter, is one of the captives and agrees to fund the deal. Azad plans to donate the money toward the loan waiver of 700,000 impoverished farmers in the country. It is also revealed that the hostage shot was secretly one of the hijackers and was not wounded at all.

Director

Atlee

Release

7 Sep 2023

Run time

169 min

Language

Hindi