Manoj Bajpai’s benchmark performance as Bhiku Mhatre in ‘Satya’ made him a cult figure overnight and won him many best Supporting Actor awards, including a National award. In his forthcoming film ‘Jaago’ he plays another powerful role of an honest police officer whose honesty in the biggest obstruction for the corruption-ridden system. His war can be stated as Individual versus the whole decadent system.
M.K. Picture’s ‘Jaago’ has a catchline “Before it’s too late…” This one will be released today at Piccadily, Chandigarh, and Fun Republic, Mani Majra. Inspired from real-life incident ‘Jaago’ has been woven around an incident of child rape in a Mumbai local train with many heart touching scenes. How should rape cases be dealt within the courts? What sentence should be given to a child rapist? Producer, director Mehul Kumar’s ‘Jaago’, makes an effort to answer these questions.
Manoj Bajpai, Sanjay Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Puru Raj Kumar, Baby Hansika Motwani, Manoj Joshi, Mushtaq Khan, Pratima Kazmi, Raju Shreshta and Akhilendra Misra are in the cast. The film is written by K.K. Singh and has cinematography by Mahendra Ryan, action by Bhiku Verma, art by Sunil Singh and editing by Yousuf Sheikh. Background score is by Sameer Sen. — D.P.
