The State vs. Jolly LL.B. 2, better known as Jolly LLB 2, is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language black comedy legal drama film written and directed by Subhash Kapoor as a sequel to his 2013 film Jolly LLB. Akshay Kumar plays the titular character, Jagdishwar Mishra, replacing the 2013 film's lead actor, Arshad Warsi, while Huma Qureshi, Annu Kapoor and Kumud Mishra, as well as Saurabh Shukla, who reprises his role from the 2013 original, star. Based in Lucknow, the story follows a lawyer who fights a case against a ruthless and powerful advocate to bring justice to the deceased victim of a fake encounter involving a corrupt police officer and a terrorist presumed dead.