Jogi Movie (2022) | Honest Review, Cast, Story, Song

Jogi Movie Review

Jogi is an Indian Hindi-language period drama film which is directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and this film is also produced by Ali Abbas Zafar and Himanshu Kishan Mehra. Jogi is a periodic drama film that is co-written by Sukhmani Sadana along with Ali Abbas Zafar. The movie is only distributed by Netflix and the story of the movie centers on the 1984 anti-sigh riot.

The movie stars a famously known singer and actor named Diljit Dosanjh along with Kumud Mishra, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Hiten Tejwani, Apinderdeep Singh, and Amyra Dastur.

Jogi Movie Cast

Jogi

The cast of the movie is superbly amazing and the direction of the movie by Ali Abbas Zafar was outstanding. The movie doesn’t contain only a bunch of talented and skilled actors but also featured a world-known Punjabi singer who is also a Sikh, named Diljit Dosanjh.

Diljit Dosanjh was the perfect lead for this movie. We don’t even think that anyone can do better than Diljit himself, perfectly suited for the role of Jogi.

Apart from Diljit, the movie also features Kumud Mishra as Tejpal Arora, MLA who did extremely well in the negative role. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Ravinder, (Jogi’s Hindu friend and a police officer). Md. Zeeshan Ayyub was just phenomenal with his acting skills and facial expressions. Hiten Tejwani as Lali, a police inspector, did an important role in the movie and did justice with the role, believe me, you appreciate him after watching the movie. Apart from the lead, the movie also had Amyra Dastur as Kammo.

Apinderdeep Singh as Sukhi, Paresh Pahuja as Kaleem (Jogi’s Muslim friend), Neelu Kohli as Jogi’s mother, Mikhail Yawalkar as Daler Singh, Mandeep Kaur as Sukhi’s wife, Charu Kumar as Heer (Jogi’s sister), K.P. Singh as Tejinder (Heer’s husband), Noyrika as Shehnaaz (Kaleem’s wife).

Jogi Movie Story

Jogi

Firstly, I will tell you that the Story of the movie JOGI is a work of fiction but also inspired by the true incident of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot as per the movie disclaimer.

The movie is set in Delhi’s Eastside neighborhood of Trilokpuri and depicts a three-day period of anti-Sikh genocide in, immediate aftermath of the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi on 31st Oct 1984.

Its a normal day for Jogi (Diljit Dosanjh) and his family they all were having parathas for their breakfast and then the males of the family left the home for their daily work and they have no idea what is about to happen, because the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by their bodyguards, and they were belong to Sikh community.

Jogi is a story of a man who tries to save his family and his neighbor’s people from the planned genocide by politicians for their political motives. In this situation yogi vows to helps not just his own family but his whole Sikh community who is in danger, following intensely emotional scenes of cutting his hair for saving others. Ravinder and his Muslim friend Kareem help him with his mission.

Jogi Box-Office Collection

Ali Abbas Zafar’s written and directed movie Jogi is released on the OTT giant Netflix on 16 September 2022. Upon its release on Netflix, it received mixed reviews from the critics but the performances of actors (especially Diljit Dosanjh, Md. Ayyub, and Kumud Mishra), direction, cinematography, editing, and theme of the movie received high praise.

The movie budget was around Rs.14-30 crores. Jogi is directly released on OTT so, we cannot find his collections but we will decide hit or flop based on its view in the opening weekend. Jogi did an average performance with 4 million views, it’s neither hit nor flop, needed to reach more than 40 lakhs to be called an average and cross more than 70 lakh views to be called a hit.

Jogi Movie overview

Jogi

If you’re still confused about the movie, I’m here to help you out with this. The movie is packed with powerful performances by their cast and is also inspired by the true incident. So, I must recommend you this movie to know what happened in 1984 with our Sikh brothers.

As per the makers of this film, the film is a work of fiction but also inspired by true incidents of the 1984 Sikh riots. However, senior advocate HS Phoolka claimed that the film is very close to true events. In a series of tweets, he said, “JOGI movie depicts the true picture of those 3 days of 1984 Sikh Genocide. Maybe the makers just want to play safe with their movie that’s why they included this kind of disclaimer that the film is a work of fiction. Maybe it’s totally inspired by only true incident of the 1984 Sikh Genocide.