Dear Jassi

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Dear Jassi

2023

2h 12m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

Romance

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18 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

In 1996 Punjab, India, Canadian-born Jassi (Pavia Sidhu) falls in love with Mithu (Yugam Sood), a rickshaw driver beneath her social status. Their attraction is pure and unconditional, but is it strong enough to fight the dictates imposed by Jassi's family and Punjabi society? With his first film set in India, Tarsem Singh Dhandwar returns to the big screen to tell the shocking true-life tale of a young couple desperate to be together.

Guy Lodge

Variety

10/16/2023

The result is sometimes slack but incrementally powerful, marked by a palpable sense of renewed purpose on the part of its helmer.

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Proma Khosla

IndieWire

09/14/2023

A-

Like the title, the film is a missive to Jassi, and a promise that she won’t be forgotten.

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Tim Grierson

Screen International

09/12/2023

The love story fails to completely captivate, and the examination of this classist, regressive society too easily becomes repetitive rather than proving insightful or damning.

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Rose Ho

The Asian Cut

Aug 2

4/5

With a tender romance at its core, 'Dear Jassi' is anchored by the warm, sweet, and naturalistic performances of its star-crossed leads.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

10/15/2024

It's a tragic class-conflict romance betwixt a worldly Indian-Canadian lass and a rickshaw driver she meets while visiting Punjabi, one complicated further by the bureaucratic cruelties of international immigration.

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Martin Kudlac

ScreenAnarchy

07/10/2024

Offers a different experience from Tarsem Singh. ... The film wins audiences' hearts with its depiction of a teen romance defying social conventions, only to shatter them with an intense reality check and a visceral denunciation of honor killings.

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Kanwar Grewal

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Synopsis

In 1996 Punjab, India, Canadian-born Jassi (Pavia Sidhu) falls in love with Mithu (Yugam Sood), a rickshaw driver beneath her social status. Their attraction is pure and unconditional, but is it strong enough to fight the dictates imposed by Jassi's family and Punjabi society? With his first film set in India, Tarsem Singh Dhandwar returns to the big screen to tell the shocking true-life tale of a young couple desperate to be together.

Director: Tarsem Singh
Producer: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Vipul D. Shah, Ashwin Varde, Rajesh Bahl, Sanjay Grover, Tarsem Singh
Screenwriter: Amit Rai
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
Original Language: Punjabi
Runtime: 2h 12m