The gang mutually decides to fake Amy's kidnapping and ask for money from her father. Suspended Inspector Arvind (Rajeev Khandelwal) is asked to investigate the abduction case.
The rest of the movie is about how their imperfect plan starts failing at every stage till the filmi climax in Vasai church.
The first half an hour of the movie when Amy meets the rest of the gang is quite good with few innovative dialogues & scenes never seen before in Indian cinema mainly because of its bold content.Especially the first scene when KC meets Amy for the first time & asks her if she is interested in opening the joint account?refering to the joint in his hand.Terrace holi party has few good moments.The movie has been projected to be about today’s youth & everything in the first half really gives you the idea of today’s youth.The way they talk,party,loose language,No morality etc…but that’s it.The novelty ends there.Once their Hummer hits a scooter & kills two men,the movie becomes a typical commercial film with corrupt cop asking for ransom to hush up the case,they planning Amy’s kidnap to get 25lakhs from her father,angry young suspended cop getting the case off records,the gang finding a hideout in some lodge in Bhindi bazaar ,the news of kidnap reaching media& many more stories which we’ve seen hundreds of times in Indian cinema.
Over the years Anurag Kashyap has developed a reputation of a bold film maker.But in this case he chose the good subject but the bad director(Bejoy Nambiar).Actually bad is not the right word for him.Its just when u compare Anurag & Bijoy you find him bad.Bijoy as a director is good in parts.I congratulate him for few sequences in the movie which were top class.One of them was the shoot-out scene of Rajiv Khandelwal in slow motion with techno version of “Khoya Khoya Chand” playing in the background.Also the final chase scene Marathi song “Pintya gela” playing in the background.really good,I must say.But over all the whole movie does not do justice to the title Shaitan.There was hardly any shaitani in the second half.No double cross,No plans,Nothing.Just friends fighting with each other,arguing regarding the next step ,running around from one place to other etc..
For me there were two reasons to go for this movie.One was Anurag Kashyap & the other was soundtrack of the movie.The soundtrack is mindblowing.Songs like Nasha,Pintya gela,Farida are top notch.Ranjit Barot is a talented music director with few others.But unfortunately it has not been used well in the movie.
They have tried to show the short temper & impulsive behavior of today’s youth.But frankly I don’t think today’s youth is that dumb to plan self kidnapping or almost kill a friend in a bout of anger .I can understand the accident after a doping session.But killing a friend,asking for ransom from all the parents not only Amy’s but everybody’s,Not surrendering inspite of knowing that police is behind them & their kidnapping is on all the news channels.All these when they are not under the influence of alcohol or dope.We’ve seen the story of imperfect self kidnapping in Khiladi(Akshay Kumar)many years back.I expected something more sensible from Anurag.After this I feel like giving one more star to Anurag’s most ridiculous movie “NO SMOKING”.Atleast it was different.This one is not.My sincere advice to Anurag is to stop giving his name to any idiot like his previous boss Ram Gopal Verma.Otherwise he’ll spoil his own image.Still not much damage is done.This was not as bad as Ramu’s movies as producer.He better come up with a better movie under his direction.
My Ratings:2/5,Watch it on DVD
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