Vasant Bala in his newly released Jigra, starring Alia Bhatt as Satya, and Vedang Raina as her brother, sees the Gangubai actor exploring sibling love and redemption as she fights to save her wrongfully imprisoned brother Ankur - and in the process, firmly affirm her position as the archetypal Hero.
When Kishore Kumar crooned Phoolon Ka Taron Ka in the 1971 musical Hare Rama Hare Krishna for Dev Anand, in search of his sister (played by Zeenat Aman), little would he have realised how Vasant Bala would take the song and turn it on its head for the 2024 offing Jigra
