Amrita Rao (Ishq Vishk and Masti) is back from the wilderness with Jolly LLB. “In this Subhash Kapoor (<em>Phas Gaya Re Obama</em> fame) film about two lawyers, I play a small-town school teacher Sandhya who is the love interest of Arshad Warsi. She is a non-mushy type of girlfriend, more like a friend showing him the mirror and slapping him if necessary. Throughout the film Arshad is seen running away from me.

Starring: <strong>Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani,Sourav Shukla, Amrita Rao</strong> Written & Directed by <strong>Subhash Kapoor</strong> Rating: <strong>****</strong> It’s not often that a film manages to hit us in the solar plexus with a statement on an epidemic social disease, and yet succeeds in telling a story so engaging you want to jump out of your seat and applaud the enterprising spirit that surges through the veins of this equi-poised saga of the judge, the judged and the damned.

While it is true that Vidhu Vinod Chopra has invited the Phas Gaya Re Obama director Subhash Kapoor to direct the next installment of the <em>Munnabhai</em> franchise the stories that Kapoor would be helming a film entitled <em>Munnabhai Chale Dilli</em> are cut down by the director as being completely baseless and untrue.

Arshad Warsi and Boman Irani, who play lawyers in the soon-to-be-released film Jolly LLB, along with director Subhash Kapoor, met the Law Minister Ashwani Kumar to submit a three-point memorandum regarding problems faced by junior lawyers. As a matter of fact, the team met up with several junior lawyers while promoting their film. The memorandum highlighted three problems - loans or credit cards denied to young lawyers due to lack of fixed income; need to define a minimum remuneration for them to survive and better amenities for beginners at courts including access to libraries.

It is a case of reel life borrowing from real, though understandably no one is willing to go on record to admit it. Subhash Kapoor’s <em>Jolly LLB</em> seeks its starting-point from the Alistair Perreira hit-and-run case which hit headlines in 2006. The film in fact opens with a sequence showing a hit-and-run incident whose details seem uncannily similar to the Pereira case. Understandably the film’s director Subhash Kapoor is wary of admitting to real-life resemblances lest the film gets slapped with more litigation alleging the film to be anti-judiciary.

Celebrating the spirit of the common man looking for justice and drawing parallels from experiences of real-to-life episodes that most Indians have faced with the legal system, Fox Star Studio’s <em>Jolly LLB</em> is already the talk of the town with it having struck a chord with people all around with its promos.

Having played several characters with aplomb, versatile Boman Irani has now donned the mantle of a successful lawyer in Subhash Kapoor and Fox Star Studios’ upcoming film <em>Jolly LLB</em>. Talking about his character Boman tells <em>Tellychakkar.com</em>, “The film is about an incident in which a rich man’s son is involved. My character is somewhat like Ram Jethmalani, the best lawyer India has. It’s quite an intense role.”

Phas Gaya Re Obama fame Subhash Kapoor, who is gearing up for the release of his forthcoming film <em>Jolly LLB</em>, is mulling with the idea of shooting yet another satire. <em>Phas Gaya Re Obama</em>, revolved around global recession and how it had an impact on the lives of people, from an America-based businessman to underworld gangsters in India.

Fox Star Studios and Subhash Kapoor of Phas Gaye Re Obama fame recently launched the trailer of their forthcoming film <em>Jolly LLB</em>. The film promises to deliver on intelligent and relevant humor that would appeal to the discerning film going audience and the wide grin on everybody who saw the trailer at the event gave testimony to this promise. Starring Boman Irani and Arshad Warsi, <em>Jolly LLB</em> is a satire on the country’s judicial system and guarantees to have audiences in splits.