Jolly LLB 3 opens with an oddly amateurish tone, featuring cringeworthy and implausible banter between its two Jollys—Arshad Warsi as Advocate Jagdish ‘Jolly’ Tyagi and Akshay Kumar as Advocate Jagdishwar ‘Jolly’ Mishra. Instead of sharp legal wit, we get courtroom comedy that feels more rehearsed than real.
When a powerful business group unveils grand plans to transform Bikaner into the next Boston, small farmers find themselves sidelined. Their legitimate demands are ignored, and force is used to suppress dissent. What begins as a development dream soon spirals into a controversy—making headlines and exposing the human cost of unchecked ambition.
It’s only around the midpoint that the film begins to take itself seriously, with an ethical awakening from the other Jolly. Post-interval, it turns into a Jai-Veeru-style buddy dynamic. Haribhai Khaitan’s (Gajraj Rao) business group has secured over ₹1,500 crores in loans from various banks and public institutions. Centered around the Indian Government’s Land Acquisition Act, the business tycoon employs Shaam, Daam, Dand, and Bhed—the four tactics often used by modern land developers to evict small landowners—which eventually backfires at a critical juncture.
Kudos to Subhash Kapoor for portraying the exact modus operandi of high-profile business houses—similar incidents regularly surface in newspapers and on national television. At one point, Haribhai Khaitan offers a ₹10 lakh cheque to a widow to settle the dispute, but she humiliates him by refusing it. At this point, it is not the question of profit or loss it is the question of the businessman’s of prestige. He ropes in a high-profile lawyer (Ram Kapoor), who, despite his impressive success rate, fails to convince Judge Sunder Lal Tripathi (Saurabh Shukla).
We have land grabs, farmer suicides, and corporate villains—but this serious subject matter is drowned out by courtroom theatrics that feel more staged than stirring. The childish banter between the two Jollys dominates the first half, followed by a romantic subplot involving Judge Tripathi, who amusingly turns to a dating app to pursue Police Officer Chanchal Chautala (Shilpa Shukla).
Among the few positives is the portrayal of a district-level judge’s attitude in a challenging case, with his mantra: “Is chakkar mein important hai constitution ka letter aur spirit.”
Akshay Kumar struts in like he owns the courtroom—and the franchise—leaving Arshad Warsi, the original Jolly, looking like he wandered in from a different film. Warsi’s subtle charm is buried under Akshay’s punchlines and screen-hogging swagger. Saurabh Shukla tries to hold the chaos together, but even his legendary wit can’t salvage a script that’s juggling too many tones and dropping most of them.
Unfortunately, the narrative falters between so-called comic skits and courtroom drama. Brilliant scenes and moments appear in patches. Talented actresses Huma Qureshi and Amrita Rao are woefully underutilized, with barely any presence in the storyline having a runtime of 157 minutes
Jolly LLB 3 wants to be sharp, funny, and socially conscious. What it ends up being is a star-studded circus with a few good lines and a lot of missed opportunities. Justice may be blind—but this film is just distracted.
Cast of Jolly LLB 3:
Akshay Kumar as Advocate Jagdishwar ‘Jolly’ Mishra
Arshad Warsi as Advocate Jagdish ‘Jolly’ Tyagi
Saurabh Shukla as Judge Sunder Lal Tripathi
Huma Qureshi as Pushpa (Jolly Mishra’s wife)
Amrita Rao as Sandhya (Jolly Tyagi’s wife)
Seema Biswas as Janki Rajaram Solanki
Gajraj Rao as Haribhai Khaitan
Ram Kapoor as Advocate Vikram
Avijit Dutt as Dr. Milind Desai
Kharaj Mukherjee as District Magistrate Sengupta
Shilpa Shukla as Chanchal Chautala
Sushil Pandey
Brijendra Kala as Lawyer
Credits of Jolly LLB 3:
Production companies- Star Studio18, Kangra Talkies
Written & Directed by Subhash Kapoor
Produced by Alok Jain, Ajit Andhare
Cinematography – Rangarajan Ramabadran
Edited by Chandrashekhar Prajapati
Songs by – Aman Pant, Anurag Saikia, Vikram Montrose
Score: Mangesh Dhakde
