Shaitan

Shaitan - what can i say about such, such weird, such crazy, such awesomely daring piece from bollywood. But first I have a confession to make. All these years I would look at bollywood movies as cheap gimmicks masquerading as entertainment sources from world biggest '-wood' serving one of the largest population of all - India. And to look at the statement I have just written, I won't deny that most of it is still true to its core, but with some rare display of brilliance in form of movies with a little hatke taste that makes you stop and force you to think, something ('concept of forcing to think') that is really and sorely missed from mainstream bollywood.

Shaitan has great cinematography and direction, that could specially be witnessed in the shooting of the shootout scene that is paralleled throughout with scenes of main characters running from site of murder through the stairs and terraces of old buildings with "khoya khoya chand" song given amazing background score and finally a soft landing on cotton truck giving the scene a perfect climax.

The contemporary issues are taken by many and but the frankness with which Shaitan has picturised them like the brutal reality of star girl's mom deed and the trauma and drama that has become part of our damsel in unending distress life, which for most part drives the movie on its 'getting high' and low paths to reach its realistic indian politicized end where anything and everything is untrue and the truth is what the power, politics and media says.

To discuss anymore will make this post a spoiler so I would let you guys decide the movies fate. To help you out a bit check out the imdb raiting:

Scorecard:
The IMDB has rightly judged it as an 8 pointer Shaitan - IMDB, but somehow the movie title is missing from rotten tomatoes database, snobbish britishers!!

Somehow a good movie in all, thought not a must watch, but a great way to spend some quality time with bollywood.