The panopticon experiment in 'Do Ankhen Barah Haath'
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In this last episode of Movie Police, our hosts Rohan Naahar and Sampada Sharma bring us the 1950s "Do Aankhen Barah Haath" in which a jailer conducts an experiment on six prisoners. Our hosts talk about how the movie tried to address the prison system but failed to make the audience root for it due to its problematic storylines.
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