Pick of the week
Joram
Devashish Makhija’s new Hindi-language film melds a chase thriller and a topical political drama to exhilarating effect – and throws in a baby for extra pathos. Mumbai construction worker Dasru (Manoj Bajpayee) is forced to go on the run with his three-month-old daughter, Joram, when his wife is killed by unknown assailants. He flees to his home state of Jharkhand, where he has a secret past as a tribal rebel, but the police and powerful local politician Phulo Karma (a superbly chilling Smita Tambe) are on his tail. Between tense pursuits, there is a real sense of a rural community succumbing to “progress” – mining, land grabs, corruption – and a traditional culture buckling under the strain.
Sunday 8 September, 2.10am, Channel 4
