By Filmfare / Times of India / Indiatimes, November 6, 2009 - 11:50 IST
2 of 3 people found this review helpful Kudos to Bhandarkar for taking an ekdum different take on the notorious Indian jail. While he does not fail to depict the grime and the horror of the jail experience, he doesn't fall into the trap of delineating it in cliched terms. Almost all the characters are given a human face, despite their crimes...
By Buzz18, November 6, 2009 - 14:43 IST
What is good about Jail is that it deals with human behaviour in a non-filmy manner, at each step showing Parag reacting to situations just like a man of his character would in real-life...
By Rediff, November 6, 2009 - 14:54 IST
0 of 1 people found this review helpful Bhandarkar's modus operandi is simple, to pick out a subject, decided on its stereotyped negatives, ones that are already more than well-entrenched in the public consciousness, and then vilify it. Yet even by his usual standards, this latest project suffers from a cinematic sin even worse than self-righteousness: Jail is a bore...
By Wogma, November 6, 2009 - 19:40 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful The word spells gloom, the vision it creates makes a shiver run down the spine. The things you've read about this thing called prison invoke the worst of your imagination. The Neil-Madhur combination brings this harshness to life.
By Radiosargam, November 7, 2009 - 09:23 IST
One thing we would like to mention is not to miss the ending. Never before has something like this been witnessed in a Bollywood film. It will just thump your heart out of your chest...
By Movietalkies, November 7, 2009 - 09:24 IST
The jail portions are really realistic and one knows that Madhur has shot in actual jails. The research that he may have done for this film, all comes out in the detailed portrayal of life in prison that is shown in Jail...
By AOL, November 7, 2009 - 09:26 IST
'Jail' is slow in the first half. The second half does not disappoint as the pace increases and also brings in hope. However, the screenplay is rather simple and dialogues poor, The part where Parag's life outside jail is shown is rather tacky...
By Filmfare / Times of India / Indiatimes, November 7, 2009 - 09:27 IST
Jail doesn't score high even on that note though it had tremendous scope to have an assortment of side-characters. There is the cliched covetous criminal lawyer, a jailor bogged down by higher authorities, a convict bores with his constant commentary of shayaris, another predicts future and so on but none amuse...
By Apunkachoice, November 7, 2009 - 09:28 IST
The movie would not have worked had the role been entrusted to wrong hands. Neil digs his teeth well into his character and brings a mix of seething angst, cathartic outbursts and hopeless resignation against his situation...
By Star Box Office, November 7, 2009 - 09:32 IST
Jail has hardly any effort put into it. If Madhur felt picking up known prison cliches and predictable storytelling would have him another winner, he was sadly mistaken. The documentary type film-making has no impact and limps in its 2 and half hours of run time...
By india, November 7, 2009 - 09:34 IST
'Jail' turns out to be just meandering and dull, instead of shocking or hard hitting. Problem is, almost all of the characters in the film are borderline stereotypical and hollow...
By Sify, November 7, 2009 - 09:35 IST
Madhur Bhandarkar's Jail is a sanitised version of the above where marketing professional Parag Dixit (Neil Nitin Mukesh) gets mistakenly entangled in a drug trafficking case, enters prison and quickly makes friends with a poet, an astrologer, a don and so on...
By Full Hyderabad, November 7, 2009 - 09:36 IST
0 of 1 people found this review helpful The movie is full of black-and-white stereotype characters - young, luscious, wrongly implicated good guys, potbellied mafia dons, guardian-angel and devil like characters who preach the path of good and evil to Parag...
By Bobby Talk Cinema, November 7, 2009 - 11:49 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful "Jail" is that it's not the usual witty and gossipy kind of subject chosen by Madhur this time. As suggested by the title itself, the theme is more cruel, dark and depressing which is also in complete contrast to Madhur's previous famous films...
By Entertainment Daily, November 11, 2009 - 09:31 IST
"Jail" raises important questions about India's prison system. Rather than taking sides, Bhandarkar states bare facts and questions whether an individual really deserves to live in misery until proven guilty?
