Director Nagraj Manjule is a well-known name in the Marathi film industry, with both his films Fandry and Sairat being wildly successful. His work is raw and hard-hitting, and often addresses uncomfortable truths - and his debut Hindi film was always going to be of interest.
Unfortunately, maybe due to the constraints of making a movie in Hindi, Manjule loses that sharpness along the way, and Jhund does not quite seem to have its mind made up - is it a social commentary on the upliftment of dalit youth, or a sports film, or the biopic of Vijay Barse, the founder of the NGO Slum ....