Madhur's realistic Jail rips off Brazilian flick Carandiru

Multiple National Award winning director Madhur Bhandarkar, is known for his offbeat yet commercially viable brand of movies.

His derives inspiration from real life the wannashine and the media (Page 3), the plight of dance bar girls (Chandni Bar) the lives of models and designersu00a0 (Fashion) or the business world (Corporate) and the same is expected out of his next film Jail. But sources are calming that his film Jail is a rip off of the 2003 Brazilian hit flick Carandiru.u00a0u00a0

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A source reveals, "Jail is said to be a realist take on the situation in the high security prison system of India.u00a0 Neil Nitin Mukesh plays an innocent guy in the prison for a crime he never commits.

The Indian film is borrowing heavily from the Brazilian film and there are many similarities between the two stories."

When the film was launched it was believed to be on the lines of Edward Norton starrer 25th Hour meets The Shawshank Redemption but that is not true."

Madhur says, "Mine is an original film. All my films right from Chandni Bar to Fashion have been the fact realities and fiction. Jail is an original script.

You can watch Jail and the Brazilian film and will find out that there is no connection."

What's Carandiru about?
It is based on the real-life experiences of Dr Drauzio Varella inside the dreadful state penitentiary Carandiru in Sao Paulo, Brazil, while he was doing a social work of Aids prevention.

There he found hundreds of convicts living under degrading conditions.

The situation came to a climax in 1992, when in order to smother a rebellion, police force killed 111 men.