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Percept Picture Company
Bhandarkar Entertainment

Status
Released 

Release Date
November 6, 2009

Language
Hindi 

Genre
Social 

Executive Producer / Co-Producer
Sanjay Mehta

Director
Madhur Bhandarkar

Star Cast
Neil Nitin Mukesh...... Parag Dixit
Mugdha Godse...... Maansi
Manoj Bajpai...... Nawaab
Arya Babbar...... Kabir Mallik
Chetan Pandit
Ghanshyam Garg
Rahul Singh...... Abdul Ghani
Sayali Bhagat
Kaveri Jha...... Sabina
Mukesh Tyagi...... CEO

Cassettes and CD's on
T-Series

Singers
Toshi Sabri
Sharib Sabri
Sonu Kakkar
Lata Mangeshkar
Neil Nitin Mukesh

Lyricist
Sharib Sabri
Toshi Sabri
A.M. Turaz
Sandeep Nath
Ajay Garg

Music Director
Sharib Sabri
Toshi Sabri
Shamir Tandon

Cinematography
Kalpesh Bhandarkar

Art
Nitin Chandrakant Desai

Editor
Devendra Murdeshwar

Screenplay
Madhur Bhandarkar
Manoj Tyagi
Anuradha Tiwari

Dialogue
Raghuvir Shekawat

Story / Writer
Madhur Bhandarkar
Manoj Tyagi
Anuradha Tiwari

JAIL transports you to a hitherto unknown world that most of us haven't seen and if this is its USP, it's also something that might go against it. Irrespective of how strong its merits are, a section of moviegoers [read families/kids], who generally tilt towards feel-good/sunshine/entertainment-filled cinema, might skip this film due to its dry [and at times depressing] theme. 

 In a nutshell, JAIL mirrors a reality in true Madhur Bhandarkar style. It's hard-hitting, it's compelling, it's thought-provoking. The efficient storyteller has the courage to speak a new language in every film and for that very reason, JAIL should be on your agenda. 

Parag Dixit [Neil Nitin Mukesh] is living a dream life -- a great job and a loving girlfriend [Mugdha Godse]. However, things take an ugly turn when, after a series of unfortunate events, he suddenly wakes up in jail. Parag is perplexed. The only salvation he finds is in Nawab [Manoj Bajpayee], a convict, who believes that Parag is innocent. 

Soon, Parag is left with a choice, to either live a life with hordes of broken hearts and shattered souls amidst the prison walls or hope to see freedom some day. 

JAIL involves you from the very start. The inmates, their crimes, their individual stories... you get drawn into a world that's very real. So real that you feel it's happening right in front of your eyes. 

Madhur has a knack of narrating stories and he narrates the story of Parag Dixit with razor-edge sharpness. Besides, JAIL also enlightens you of the legal process, which also acts as an eye-opener. 

At the same time, the legal procedures and also the behavioural pattern of the inmates tend to get repetitive after a point and that's when you start feeling restless. Nonetheless, the post-interval has some interesting twists-n-turns, like the convicts' escape from the police van; prior to that Neil and Manoj exchanging stares before Neil perches himself in the van; Neil getting thrown in a dark cell, spending the next few days in solitary confinement; a convict using the garbage van as the means to escape; another convict realising that his wife is now a cop's mistress. Also, the climax is touching and moves you.