Jail Reviewed

My regular readers, if there are any (!?!), might accuse me of posting one after another negative reviews of books I read and movies I watch.

But this time I can't help when Write-Director Madhur Bhandarkar goes rogue and sentences unsuspecting viewers of Jail - his latest flick - to two and half hours of rigorous boredom.

Madhur Bhandarkar is someone who can make prototypical negativity really entertaining. He proved that in Chandani Bar, Satta, Fashion, Traffic Signal, and Corporate. In Jail, he dares to go ‘behind the bar’ and fails to live up to the mark.

Even though Jail's receipe has all those 'Madhur' flavours - a main topic (our sluggish justice system), professionals engaged in malpractices (exploiting lawyer), near-factual story line (hardship in prison), main character's life going topsyturvy, and pseudo happy ending - it completely fails to satisfy viewer's entertainment taste buds.

I cannot describe this movie without giving away much of its plot. Parag Dixit, an innocent, well educated guy played by Neil Nitin Mukesh, spends 2 years behind the bars while being prosecuted based on circumstantial evidence.Navab, his fellow jail mate played by Manoj Vajpayee, acts as Parag's moral compass in those years.

Neil Nitin Mukesh portrayed stunned and flabbergasted Parag so naturally that, I think, he is just being himself in the movie. ( FYI - This is not a compliment!).

Manoj Vajpayee's natural talents go untapped in this movie. Same is the case with talents of Madhura Godse!

Final word. If you've already seen Jail, and are willing to redeem your mistake, please watch 'The Shawshank Redemption' without fail.