Jail ; Story of Ordinary Man
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Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mughda Godse, Manoj Bhajpai, Arya Babbar
As the title of the film suggests, ‘Jail’ is a film much to the affect of showing the ordinary man what lies behind those deadly dark doors.
The story goes like this-Neil (Parag Dixit) is into a sales job, busy trying to meet his targets and having some good moments with Mughda (Mansi) an air hostess. Then suddenly due to a series of events Parag gets caught up in a false allegation which lands him to jail.
The jail scenes are shot very realistically. Parag Dixit is the protagonist who is very frustrated as his bail is not granted and he is not allowed to open his mouth to say a word in his own defense. His frustrations keep building up and he gets violent at times. The description of the dark over crowded jail is considerably scary. Mughda (Mansi) has nothing much to do except be a supportive girlfriend and to shed tears and console Parag. Manoj Bajpai plays a prisoner called Nawab, who develops a soft corner for Parag, but has nothing much to do either, except give soulful glances to Parag.
The realistic descriptions of fight for little water, food which would hardly be edible, the under currents of the under world are all a little nerve rattling. The “Anda cell” scene was particularly scary.
Even though, the performances are all at par, Neil is definitely good, so is Manoj Bajpai, albeit his role had less dialogue, he managed a good depiction. Arya Babbar is quite convincing with his tough looks.
The movie on the whole is a hard hitting realistic one, but the magic of Madhur’s earlier movies-‘Page 3’, ‘Chandni Bar’, ‘Fashion’, etc., is missing. In ‘Jail’, however the horror does not get to the point of being horrific; rather, the plot seems to be too simplistic.
The three times National award winner has not delivered it up to those levels of expectations and the audiences even though were touched, they were not able to reach the poignancy level.
Somehow one fails to relate to the protagonists’ pain and frustrations. On the whole one should watch it to see what life behind those bars can be like and nothing more.
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