Right from the get go, Vasanatabalan makes it clear about what Jail is going to be — an unapologetic message movie about the plight of the poor who are displaced from their localities and forced to live in a resettlement colony on the outskirts of the city. The film's titles play over visuals of the place — here, it is Kaveri Nagar, standing in for the real-life Kannagai Nagar in Chennai — with a voice-over telling us how the whole process of replacement is wrong. From comparing the people to birds who have been caged and the place to a jail, we get what the film is going to tell over the next two hours in these initial few minutes.
Right from the get go, Vasanatabalan makes it clear about what Jail is going to be — an unapologetic message movie about the plight of the poor who are displaced from their localities and forced to live in a resettlement colony on the outskirts of the city. The film's titles play over visuals of the place — here, it is Kaveri Nagar, standing in for the real-life Kannagai Nagar in Chennai — with a voice-over telling us how the whole process of replacement is wrong. From comparing the people to birds who have been caged and the place to a jail, we get what the film is going to tell over the next two hours in these initial few minutes.
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