Jail (2009)

Director:

Madhur Bhandarkar

Writers:

Anuradha Tiwari (screenplay)
Manoj Tyagi (screenplay)

Release Date:

6 November 2009 (India)

Genre:

Drama

Cast

Neil Nitin Mukesh	...	Parag Dixit
Mugdha Godse	...	Mansi
Manoj Bajpai	...	Nawab
Arya Babbar	...	Kabir Malik
Atul Kulkarni	...	Lawyer
Raahul Singh	...	Abdul Ghani
Navni Parihar
G.K. Desai	...	Cricket Bookie DesaiBhai
Mirza Ali Quli
Chetan Pandit
Jignesh Joshi	...	Keshav Rathod
Vinay Laad
Ghanshyam Garg	...	Piloo Yadav
Gopal Singh

Runtime:

India:131 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

India:UA | Hong Kong:IIB

Company:

Percept Picture Company

Trivia:

The research Director Madhur Bhandarkar was doing for the movie was interrupted by The 26/11 Mumbai attacks as the film is based on Indian Jails and he wanted Neil Nitin Mukesh to visit Tihar Jail, Delhi. But Neil was refused due to security reasons and increased security in Tihar Jail after the attack.

Neil's best performance so far !

It may not be a hit in BO but it is one of those few films which stays in your heart forever. Neil Nitin Mukesh is amazing in this movie. The movie rests on the strong shoulders of Neil Nitin. He has excelled in his performance.

Parag Manohar Dixit (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is a successful executive, living with a roommate who is a bit of a weirdo — his mobile phone always seems to have a poor network whenever the guy is in town, and he constantly uses Parag's phone. Parag's air-hostess girlfriend, Manasi (Mugdha Godse), warns him against the weirdness, but Parag laughs it off, saying that such things (he even uses Parag's underwear and towel occasionally) are normal with bachelors.

But it's not so simple: one evening, Parag picks up his roommate from a pub and the cops get after them. His friend opens fire on the cops and is critically wounded by the police, and drugs worth over a crore are found in the vehicle.

The world goes upside down for Parag: he is remanded in police custody; a greedy lawyer sucks money from his mother (Navni Parihar) and girlfriend like a leech drawing blood; and once incarcerated, he gets to stay in conditions and an environment that he never had imagined before. His roommate lapses into coma and soon dies — and with him, seemingly, Parag's acquittal on a serious drugs charge seems a remote possibility, especially as many bail applications are rejected.

The long battle begins and soon, Parag is broken, shattered, a programmed automaton who suddenly gets into frenzies and vicious temper bouts. The inmates in jail all have one common thread: hope, irrespective or whether rich or poor, innocent or guilty, law-abiding or lawless and sentenced or awaiting trial. And Parag will never be the same again, but life-term convict Nawab (Manoj Bajpayee) would want him to be the same man when he goes out a free man and not get embittered or even lured by in-jail mafia that operate along with corrupt cops, represented by Karim (Aarya Babbar) and his clique.

Some people say that the scenes in jail and the atmosphere created by Madhur Bhandarkar is very claustrophobic but that's how it should be ! There was no scope of music in this kind of movie but the songs are very intelligently woven in the film, My fav are Data sun le & Milke youn laga. As a whole it is a must watch film !