RAJ KUNDRA GETS CANDID on His Sleepless Nights in Jail, Surviving 63 Days on Biscuits & Extra
What made you act in your individual biopic?
I wanted closure someplace, there was one thing inside me that was bugging me. I wished the world to see what I went by way of. Someplace, I need individuals to see that there are lives which do not require to undergo what they went by way of. The movie is a narrative of feelings, bonding, the circumstances they (inmates) lived in, the meals they’d and many others. I used to be pondering of turning my notes right into a memoir, which is when Shahnawaz Ali ( director) informed me to not. He talked about that it has legs to face on, we are able to make a film on it. I discovered the concept fascinating and deliberate to behave on it.
Was it much like reliving your days in jail whilst you have been capturing?
Very!!! I had goosebumps the primary day I walked onto the units, I felt like I used to be again in jail. I had even made Shahnawaz communicate to one of many inmates who had been launched, in order that he might get each side of the story of how jail was…. However all the setting helped rather a lot in emoting the actual ordeal, there have been plenty of scenes the place I wasn’t informed that I needed to cry, however I might bear in mind the precise second and tears would begin rolling down. That was the simpler half, the laborious half was when the director would say I need the identical shot from one other angle and ask me to repeat the identical emotion.
Are you in contact with any of your inmates?
There have been a number of of them who had secured their bail however they didn’t know the place to go and pay their bail quantity. So once I was stepping out, they approached me, so I took down their particulars and employed a lawyer and we received about 7-8 of them out by now. So sure, I’m in contact with a few them.
Do you suppose our prisons want reform?
100% – there may be much less house and crime is rising and town is rising, however everyone seems to be being thrown in simply 1-2 jails. And in a capability of 800 inmates, 3000 are put up. The barrack that I used to be in was known as 6/4, it was for 50 individuals however there have been 250 of us staying there. At night time, if you slept, you couldn’t see the ground, so if you needed to go to the washroom which was on the far finish of the room, you actually needed to step on individuals. And there’s no luxurious of sleeping in your again, you’re sleeping in your facet and when new individuals are available in, they sleep on prime of you. I’m sorry for people who find themselves caught there.
There’s a scene within the trailer the place you present the roti being soaked in dal…
That was the one method you could possibly eat that roti, I used to be surviving on biscuits and water. There’s a provision retailer there, and I purchased biscuits. I misplaced 17 kilos in two months there.
Additionally lots of people simply didn’t consider you’re married to Shilpa Shetty..
Ya, I received that rather a lot as a result of I used to be on this 6/4 barrack and all different celebrities have been put up in another barrack, so I used to be like a monkey within the zoo. Everybody wished to see who I used to be.
