Amy (Kalki Koechlin) is new to Mumbai with her rich NRI dad (Rajat Kapoor) and step mom, trying to shake off the memory of her mother, who died 12 years ago in a mental asylum. The troubled teen easily bonds with her new gang members, and life turns into a continuous high full of drugs, drinks, Hummers and yatches, until one day, it all comes to a crashing halt when one such race ends with them crushing two helpless scooter riders to death.
They bolt from the scene, and fall into the trap of a corrupt police officer (Yadav continuing from Ragini) who demands 25 lakhs to suppress the evidence he has against them. Things get worse when their staged kidnapping goes horribly wrong, all sense of morality and reason is lost, trust is at a premium, and all hell breaks loose. As one plan fails after another, they get sucked into an unyielding cesspool of violence, despair, and helplessness, and all you can do, really, is feel sorry for the Shaitan in them.
The movie is very dark, and stays with you long after you have exited the theatre. Interestingly though, inspite of all the negativity and despair, the movie leaves you with a glimmer of hope and a tinge of relief.
The camera work is superb, the screenplay and cinematography is top notch, with the high speed shots leaving you gasping for more. The background score is superb, and adds tremendously to the experience. The chase, the shooting sequence with the girl dead on the cot, and the Hummer accident will shock you and stay with you for days to come.
The cast of the film is superb. Rajeev Khandelwal gives a tremendous performance as the ruthless cop fighting his own Shaitan. Kalki is mind-blowing, carrying over the excellent work she did in Dev D. Neil Bhoopalam, Shiv Pandit, Kirti Kulhari and Gulshan Deviah are also perfectly cast as her friends, and deliver outstanding performances. Nikhil Chinappa also makes an impression.
The movie starts slowly, and meanders just a little bit with Rajeev's marital problems, but sets up amazingly well for the second half.
Hard-hitting, contemporary and effective, this is one movie you definitely cannot afford to miss. Five stars from me.
2 comments:
sirjee please do watch a movie called PAANCH (debut of KK menon) ... Anurag kashyap movie... wow.. liked shaitan a lot... remembered me of this unreleased movie PAANCH... ( i dunno whether you watch movies downloaded from torrent or not) but worth watch...
Yes, I heard about Paanch - and no, not yet been watching movies from torrent, but given that Paanch never released, guess I will need to do that now.
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