One innocent little girl…one night…one horrific nightmare… 

Life couldn’t be better for Shrikant (Sanjay Kapoor) and Shraddha (Raveena Tandon), as they have a beautiful 10-year-old daughter, Shruti, (Hansika Mortwani) who brings all the joy they could ever ask for into their lives. As many kids in this age do, Shruti travels from Borivali to Bandra daily by local train to attend school. One day, she accidentally gets locked in her school and isn’t able to get out until late that night. By the time she catches a train to take her back home it is already midnight…and so the nightmare begins… 

As the darkness of fate may have it, three young drug attics also board the train. Upon seeing her all alone; they rape the angelic yet helpless child. This shameless act was committed in front of three passengers who were all too scared to interfere. 

Shruti is brought into the hospital in a state of unconsciousness. With her grieving parents beside her, she breathes a final breath of air. This happening causes an uproar in the city and shocks everyone to say the least. The case is passed over to Kripa Shankar Thakur (Manoj Bajpai). Thankfully, he’s a honest and sincere cop from the Crime Branch and helps to give both parents justice. From here on out begins an uphill clime, a struggle between the honest and the corrupt. Thakur, without crossing any illegal boundaries, righteously arrests all three convicts. In doing so, he rips apart the truth about the society and its legal system counterpart. Finally, the respectable judge declares a judgment that makes history… Regardless of what this mysterious judgment holds for the future of the convicts, a little girl’s life was taken away from her. For Shruti, life was just beginning…life, at an age where nothing in the world mattered, everything is fresh and beautiful…never did the fear of death or harm arise in the mind of this little girl. One night….one nightmare…one last breath. 

The theme of child-rape is one that has never been attempted in this era of Indian cinema, but what a reality it is. As hard-hitting as this concept may be in theory, weather or not it will be a hard-hitter at the Big B.O. we’ll have to see. It should be interesting to see how the public reacts to such a film, a film which takes them away from the fairy-tale Bollywood. For director Mehul Kumar, Jaago is more than just a film…it’s a reality, a truth, an Awakening…