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Jagte Raho is the simple story of a naive peasant who in hopes of improving his lifestyle, a poor peasant re-locates to Bombay virtually penniless. It is late at night and he is thirsty, and he is unable to find water anywhere. Then he sneaks into a multi-storied apartment complex, and is mistaken for a thief. The complex consists of over 200 units, and is housing nearly a 1000 people they all set out to hunt him down. Whilst evading capture, he inadvertently exposes the venality and dishonesty of the building's middle class occupants.

The film shows the double standards of our society, the cruelty and the corruptness, but not in a stereotypical way. It is natural and real. This naive peasant represents the simple common man who becomes a victim for no fault of his own. He encounters different sorts of thefts and crimes committed by those so-called "respectable" citizens of the city, those who call him a thief and chase him just because he yearns for a few drops of water so that they can hide their own misdemeanors. This is so unbelievable yet so true.

The character of the naïve peasant requires great facial expression as it don't have many dialogues but he emotes constantly, and Raj Kapoor being a Theater person have brilliantly achieved this.

I think that to analyze this film, firstly one has to understand the social environment of that era. During that time people where migrating to metros in search of jobs and stable life. However here they become victim of the bourgeois society. Film-Maker has very brilliantly weaved the beautiful story in this concept. I liked the metaphors used in the film which creates an impact on the viewer. Like a character of a child in a climax is a metaphor of new beginning. There are many more such metaphors in this film. There are sometimes when overuse of background scores have spoiled the impact of the emotions. Sometimes the acting is also too dramatic and theatrical to digest. However I also think that this is deliberated by the director as during those times audience demand such things which I can say after watching films from those era.

Anand Patwardhan is the most iconoclastic documentary film maker I have ever seen. Till now I have seen his 2 films & I should say that in his films he religiously make honest attempts to break all the establish norms in the society. War and Peace is no different. This is a film about the irony of war which exist in the shadow of peace.

There was nuclear attack on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, which USA reasoned as an attempt to end the war and establish peace but does war really ended ? I don't think so... Many years later two developing nation India & Pakistan conducted nuclear test and became nuclear power; again in the name of peace. (It was mainly to satisfy each-others false ego) Twin tower attack motivated America to bombard Afghanistan, further they destroyed Iraq again in the name of unattainable peace. Power fanatics all around the world are playing this ironical game of War and Peace.

This is a film about destruction or destructive nature which exist within the society. I am really amazed by the courage and passion of director to make films on issues which are important but generally ignored.

I will seriously recommended this film to all movie buffs however also note that there are couple of heart-trenching shots and images which may disturb you, however this should not be a reason to ignore this film.

Recommended.