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‘Jaggi’ Review: A Poignant Story of Trauma, With No Escape in Rural Punjab
Jaggi, the titular character, is a boy in rural Punjab, in his late teenagers or early twenties. He manages his household’s 12 acres of farmland. His father, a cop, is a drunkard. And his mom is, properly, largely absent.
Jaggi might be anybody. He might be your stereotypical Punjabi hero, listening to Harbhajan Mann’s music as he ploughs his land, shifting by way of the fields on a tractor.
However he’s not simply anybody. He has a secret, one which leaves him uncovered to exploitation, bullying, and sexual harassment.
Jaggi is impotent. He confides in a classmate who thinks that he should be homosexual if he can’t get an erection. The phrase quickly spreads in his all-boys’ highschool, the place the opposite boys attempt to nook him within the washroom and in empty areas. They molest, harass, and rape him. Always.
So Jaggi drops out of faculty. However the cycle of abuse doesn’t finish there. There’s no respite for him. Whilst he tries to busy himself with farm work, males drive themselves upon him – leaving him mentally, emotionally, bodily drained.