Jigra

Jigra (2024)

जिगरा

When Ankur is wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death in a foreign country, his steely sister Satya is driven by a lethal resolve to break him free.

Date of release
2024-10-10
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (80)
Runtime
2h 35m
Genres
Action, Drama, Thriller
Director
Vasan Bala

Casting

Interesting facts

Jigra (transl. Courage) is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vasan Bala, who co-wrote it with Debashish Irengbam. It is produced by Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Alia Bhatt, Shaheen Bhatt and Soumen Mishra under Viacom18 Studios, Dharma Productions and Eternal Sunshine Productions. This is also the Bollywood debut of Rahul Ravindran. It stars Alia Bhatt as a troubled young woman who must rescue her brother from a foreign prison after he is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit.

Production

The film was announced in September 2023. Alia Bhatt and Vedang Raina were cast as the leads. In November 2023, Aditya Nanda and Sobhita Dhulipala joined the cast of the film.

The character of Hansraj Landa was loosely inspired by the character Hans Landa from Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds. According to actor Bijou Thaangjam, he was cast for a role by the film producers but was dropped without notice; which he attributed to racism towards people from northeast India.

Principal photography commenced by October 2023. The film was mainly shot in Mumbai, Thailand and Singapore before wrapping in February 2024. These locations were chosen to portray the fictional country of Hanshi Dao in the film (which loosely resembles Singapore).

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