{"id":590669,"date":"2023-09-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dear-jassi-review-tarsem-singh-dhandwar-delivers-a-devastating-star-crossed-romance\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","slug":"dear-jassi-review-tarsem-singh-dhandwar-delivers-a-devastating-star-crossed-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dear-jassi-review-tarsem-singh-dhandwar-delivers-a-devastating-star-crossed-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Dear Jassi\u2019 Review: Tarsem Singh Dhandwar Delivers a Devastating Star-Crossed Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3521c347cc5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3521c347cc5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dear-jassi-review-tarsem-singh-dhandwar-delivers-a-devastating-star-crossed-romance\/#Dear_Jassi\" >Dear Jassi<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Simplicity serves director Tarsem Singh Dhandwar well. The India-born filmmaker, whose resum\u00e9 includes landmark music videos for the likes of R.E.M. and Deep Forest, has tended toward the stylistically baroque in such films as <em>The Cell<\/em>, <em>The Fall<\/em>, <em>Immortals<\/em>, <em>Mirror Mirror <\/em>and <em>Self\/less<\/em>. Now, with his first feature in eight years, he has returned to the country of his birth and made his simplest and most powerful effort to date. Receiving its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, <em>Dear Jassi<\/em> has the feel of a timeless folktale, made all the more unbearably sad because of its basis in fact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That feeling is reinforced by the film\u2019s framing device, in which renowned Punjabi singer\/composer Kanwar Grewal introduces and narrates the tale, his music giving it the feel of something that has been passed down for generations. In reality, the tragic story that inspired the film began in the 1990s \u2014 when the film, much of which features Punjabi dialogue with subtitles, is set as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dear_Jassi\"><\/span>\n<p>                    Dear Jassi      <\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>                    <span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>    Elemental in its power.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                            <strong>Venue<\/strong>: Toronto International Film Festival (Platform)<br \/><strong>Cast<\/strong>: Pavia Sidhu, Yugam Sood, Kanwar Grewal, Gourav Sharma, Sukhwinder Chahal, Sunita Dhir, Baljinder Kaur<br \/><strong>Director<\/strong>: Tarsem Singh Dhandwar<br \/><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong>: Amit Rai<br \/><span><br \/>\n                                2 hours 12 minutes          <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The young protagonists are 19-year-old Jassi (Pavia Sidhu), a wealthy Indian girl whose family has relocated from Punjab, India, to Canada, and Mithu (Yugam Sood), a handsome but poor rickshaw driver whom she meets while back in India visiting her relatives. It\u2019s love at first sight, with Jassi becoming enthralled by Mithu when she first sees him playing a local <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. Despite their very different <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> and financial positions, the two can\u2019t take their eyes off each other, at first only exchanging silent stares before a tentative courtship begins. It isn\u2019t long until Jassi declares, \u201cI want to stay here forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Alas, it\u2019s not meant to be, as she\u2019s forced to return home to Canada, where she sends Mithu a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of letters, which he enlists the help of a local schoolteacher to read to him. The teacher, embarrassed by the outpourings of fervent love expressed in the missives, turns around while he reads them so he and Mithu don\u2019t have to look at each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Secretly taking money from her family, Jassi sends Mithu the funds to procure a passport and a plane ticket to Canada to visit her. But he falls victim to crooked <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> agents and loses the money. She returns for another visit instead, and has Jassi procure sleeping pills with which she secretly drugs her relatives so he can visit her while they\u2019re knocked out. But she soon becomes very aware of the dangers of their relationship when her uncle shoots and wounds her cousin\u2019s prospective suitor and the family compound becomes heavily fortified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The two secretly get married, but things go from bad to worse when Jassi\u2019s father suffers a fatal heart attack and her mother finds out about the relationship. Mithu is arrested and accused of rape, and it\u2019s only the beginning of a series of calamities that end in tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Based on the reporting of Canadian journalist Fabian Dawson, the screenplay by Amit Rai smartly focuses mainly on the two young central figures, with many of the adults depicted as violent, abusive or hysterical. The story would seem unbelievable were it not true, and for the fact that many similar events have been reported around the world. Employing a far more classical filmmaking style than previously, Dhandwar relates it with striking visual simplicity, if at times indulgently in terms of too-leisurely pacing and some repetitiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Nonetheless, the main characters are thoroughly believable in their heightened emotional states, coming across like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet in their star-crossed romance (a sleeping potion even figures prominently in the storyline). The relatively unknown lead actors \u2014 this is Sood\u2019s acting debut, while Sidhu has <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in such TV series as <em>The Flash<\/em> and <em>Cruel Summer<\/em> \u2014 deliver compelling performances that keep us thoroughly immersed in Jassi and Mithu\u2019s insular lovestruck world marked by a naivet\u00e9 that becomes their undoing. The violent climactic sequences, superbly staged by the filmmaker, will leave you shaken. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The India-born filmmaker, whose resum\u00e9 includes landmark music videos for the likes of R.E.M. and Deep Forest, has tended toward the stylistically baroque in such films as The Cell, The Fall, Immortals, Mirror Mirror and Self\/less. 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