Neil Mukesh’s Masturbation Shot Chopped from Jail
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Madhur Bhandarkar’s forthcoming film Jail seems to have a lot of problems with the censor board. Earlier it was Neil Mukesh’s nude scene in the Jail and now it looks like the censor board is chopping off the scene where Neil’s character shags or masturbates in jail.
Tells Neil, “This quence was shot with 450 other actors present on the set. Frankly, if it was any other director, I’d have said no. But knowing the way Madhur depicts explicit sexual scenes, I said yes. All the inmates are asleep when I do it. Now, most of the scene has been chopped off. But we still see the character doing it.”
Neil also justifies the behaviour of his character by saying, “My nude or masturbation scenes are not for titillation. It’s a very practical need in the script. My character is in Jail without sex for more than two years. What does he do? He naturally seeks pleasure by himself.
In the scene that we shot, my character fantasises about his girlfriend and gets his gratification. But honestly, after Madhur and I shot it, we found we had gone too far. It was too explicit. It was just not going with Indian aesthetics. So we decided to knock it off quite a bit by mutual consent. We just wondered if the flow of the narration would be hampered.”
Wonder what the final outcome would look like on screen!
