Ram Jagadeesh’s ‘Court – State vs a Nobody’ is a thunderous melodrama that starts weakly and becomes increasingly powerful

The story is about the misuse of the legal system, and it works because of the love story at the centre and the sturdy nature of the courtroom drama. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

The crux of Ram Jagadeesh’s debut feature, Court – State vs a Nobody, revolves around a young man who’s charged under the act we now know as POCSO (Protection of Children against Sexual Offences). The young man’s name is Chandu (Harsh Roshan). He makes a living with a bunch of odd jobs, with his watchman-father screaming at him for not studying further and aiming higher in life. Chandu falls for Jabili (Sridevi), who comes from a well-off family, lorded over by a powerful uncle named Mangapathi (Sivaji). When Mangapathi finds out about Chandu and Jabili, he wastes no time in getting the young man arrested, because Jabili is (just) under 18. In other words, though we seem to be watching a courtroom drama with all the fiery theatrics of the genre, the story underneath is one that’s very familiar to us: a rich girl falls for a poor boy, and the villain tries to tear them apart.

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