Review Madhur Bhandarkar yet again takes us right into the underbelly of a world we never knew existed like it is. With his well researched and authentic treatment, Madhur makes us feel the pain and anguish of what a person must be undergoing when he is put in jail. The dialogues are razor sharp befitting a Madhur Bhandarkar film and the large number of character actors carefully chosen justifying their parts with their natural act. The film has many characters put in for real life references like for example the infamous drunk and drive incident on a Mumbai road. Although, it takes a little extra time for the story to build up, after the interval point it packs in a solid punch. Camerawork by Kalpesh Bhandarkar and background music deserve special mention. Sayali Bhagat s item song will please the front benchers.Madhur has the knack of deriving award winning performances from his principal cast and in here Neil delivers an award worthy performance as Parag Dixit. The manner in which he has successfully conveyed his anger, frustration and sheer helplessness against the situation that he has been subjected to deserves a bow. Mugdha Godse in a non-glam part is good. Manoj Bajpai in his intense act is simply superb. His meaningful gaze conveys a lot. Playing jail inmates - Rahul Singh as Gani bhai and Arya Babbar as the underworld recruiter are excellent in their parts. Atul Kulkarni impresses in the two scenes he gets during the climax.Watch Jail for an experience of a trip to a world which you will wish you never to visit even in your worst nightmares. --platform47.comMadhur Bhandarkar yet again takes us right into the underbelly of a world we never knew existed like it is. With his well researched and authentic treatment, Madhur makes us feel the pain and anguish of what a person must be undergoing when he is put in jail. The dialogues are razor sharp befitting a Madhur Bhandarkar film and the large number of character actors carefully chosen justifying their parts with their natural act. The film has many characters put in for real life references like for example the infamous drunk and drive incident on a Mumbai road. Although, it takes a little extra time for the story to build up, after the interval point it packs in a solid punch. Camerawork by Kalpesh Bhandarkar and background music deserve special mention. Sayali Bhagat s item song will please the front benchers.Madhur has the knack of deriving award winning performances from his principal cast and in here Neil delivers an award worthy performance as Parag Dixit. The manner in which he has successfully conveyed his anger, frustration and sheer helplessness against the situation that he has been subjected to deserves a bow. Mugdha Godse in a non-glam part is good. Manoj Bajpai in his intense act is simply superb. His meaningful gaze conveys a lot. Playing jail inmates - Rahul Singh as Gani bhai and Arya Babbar as the underworld recruiter are excellent in their parts. Atul Kulkarni impresses in the two scenes he gets during the climax.Watch Jail for an experience of a trip to a world which you will wish you never to visit even in your worst nightmares. --platform47.comMadhur Bhandarkar yet again takes us right into the underbelly of a world we never knew existed like it is. With his well researched and authentic treatment, Madhur makes us feel the pain and anguish of what a person must be undergoing when he is put in jail. The dialogues are razor sharp befitting a Madhur Bhandarkar film and the large number of character actors carefully chosen justifying their parts with their natural act. The film has many characters put in for real life references like for example the infamous drunk and drive incident on a Mumbai road. Although, it takes a little extra time for the story to build up, after the interval point it packs in a solid punch. Camerawork by Kalpesh Bhandarkar and background music deserve special mention. Sayali Bhagat s item song will please the front benchers.Madhur has the knack of deriving award winning performances from his principal cast and in here Neil delivers an award worthy performance as Parag Dixit. The manner in which he has successfully conveyed his anger, frustration and sheer helplessness against the situation that he has been subjected to deserves a bow. Mugdha Godse in a non-glam part is good. Manoj Bajpai in his intense act is simply superb. His meaningful gaze conveys a lot. Playing jail inmates - Rahul Singh as Gani bhai and Arya Babbar as the underworld recruiter are excellent in their parts. Atul Kulkarni impresses in the two scenes he gets during the climax.Watch Jail for an experience of a trip to a world which you will wish you never to visit even in your worst nightmares. --platform47.com
A**L
What’s it about I fell asleep
I can’t tell ya about the I fell asleep as it was starting maybe 2 min into it
C**E
Schlock, and not the good kind.
Not sure what the director and producers were going for. It looked like they were trying to do a modern version of those Women In Prison movies that Roger Corman made in the early 1970s in the Philippines, but missed the mark. Those old movies had a certain charm, style, quirkiness. This movie was just dull. Bad dubbing (and not the good kind of bad dubbing). Horrible acting (and not the good kind of horrible acting). And the women just weren't all that attractive. So thumbs down.
B**L
Not so much
Pass this one
J**1
?
Horrible
B**S
Mattei never stopped
When most Italian men get to be 75 years of age, they become kindly older men, their rough edges filed down and replaced with good humor and happiness. Bruno Mattei was not one of those men, because if you think his return to the women in prison genre would start pulling punches, you don’t know Vincent Dawn. Or David Hunt. Or Werner Knox.The first moment in this movie would be the roughest in anyone else’s film. The warden of the prison hell on an Adian island asks for a woman to be released from the hole that she’s been in for a month. When the guards take her out, she’s already dead. She orders her to take twenty lashes anyway to the shock of everyone, even the hardened people guarding the prisoners. In another director’s hands, this would be enough. But we’re in the world of Mr. Mattei and that means we have to watch a dead body literally get the deceased horse treatment.Three new fish — prisoners 50-52 — are coming to this jungle hell. They’re Carol, who killed her pimp. Lisa, who was part of the wrong crowd. And finally, our heroine Jennifer (Yvette Yzon, who was in two other late Mattei films, Island of the Living Dead and Zombies: The Beginning), who we know won’t crack under pressure. Or high pressure hoses. Or whatever other horrifying things the mind of Mattei can bring.Jim Gaines — who shows up in plenty of Mattei movies like Zombies: The Beginning, Island of the Living Dead, RoboWar, both Strike Commando movies — plays the Governor of the island who runs a strip club, because I guess that’s the kind of business that thrives in a hellhole, and uses the girls as talent. If you don’t play along, they make you stand in a bamboo cage filled with corpses, so most of the ladies get on the pole.During a huge party at the Governor’s club, the girls make a break for it, turning the film into The Most Dangerous Game slasher territory, yet it’s somehow some of the best-lensed stuff Bruno did. Life’s funny that way. Somehow, the Philippines were just made for the director.That said — this movie is 100% not for anyone. Really, it’s filled with such repellant imagery that it goes into near parody territory. The House of the Lost Souls is not a place that anyone wants to go to and the film shows you all of it.Somehow, someway, Bruno didn’t rip anything off in this other than every women in prison movie ever.
T**N
Good movie
This was a really good movie in my opinion. It started off a bit confusing but ended up alright.
A**E
Was not arresting enough
Jail continues the tradition of Madhur Bhandarkar's earlier directorial attempts i.e realistic portrayal of different themes and exposing the inner workings and highlighting its good and bad. While I thought Chandni Bar was the best of his outings, Corporate, Page 3 and to a certain extent Fashion were okay as well.Jail is a well intentioned film based on the Brazilian movie 'Carandiru' but it falters because the situations are predictable and not so absorbing. You get the feeling that you have seen this before. Nothing is new in this movie, except may be the actors. Parag Dixit played by Neil Nitin Mukesh is on a roll. He has a good job, a devoted girlfriend played by Mugdha Godse until one day he is busted by the police for drug peddling. He is an innocent who has been framed by his friend. The rest of the movie follows his trials in the jail and the subsequent drama that he undergoes in there. The jail gives us a glimpse in to the lives of many characters and their stories before after and during their jail time. These characters simply add minutes to the running time and no depth at all. Jail works in parts and simply because of Neil Nitin Mukesh who is supported by Manoj Bajpai as a fellow prisoner. Neil conveys the anguish and the frustration of a innocent wrongly accused capably. However the rest of the film just does not manage to imprison you to your seat. I gave it two and 1/2 stars. 02/25/10
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