In ‘Jigra’, Alia Bhatt successfully reinvents the cornered anti-hero of 1970s Bollywood

Vasan Bala’s smart thriller draws from various influences but loses momentum towards the end.

The clock’s ticking for Satya (Alia Bhatt) in Vasan Bala’s ‘Jigra’. Her brother Ankur (Vedang Raina) is on death row in an island nation called Hanshi Dao (a fictitious version of Singapore), and she’s just gotten news that the date of his execution has been expedited for an attempted jailbreak.