Disturbingly Beautiful
Cast:
Rajeev Khandelwal Arvind Mathur
Kalki Koechlin Amy/Amrita Jaishankar
Gulshan Devaiya KC/Karan Chaudhary
Shiv Pandit Dash/Dushyant Sahu
Neil Bhoopalam Zubin Shroff
Kirti Kulhari Tanya Sharma
Story:
Amy has recently shifted to Mumbai. Her relationship is estranged with her father as well as her step-mother with a backstory of disturbed childhood attached. At a social function she meets KC, a rich spoilt brat who invites her to a Holi celebration after a session of smoking pot. It is at the Holi bash where Amy meets Dash - a drug peddler who works at a coffee shop, Zubin - a geek who enjoys playing games so much he often masturbates watching the characters and Tanya a bulimic who is forced to work as a model by her sister. The friendship evolves with drugs, parties and reckless driving around the city. During one such reckless drive they kill two people in an accident. This is where their inner shaitan (demon) starts taking control over their mind and they end up getting deeper into world of crime and violence. Inspector Arvind Mathur is a suspended cop because of his brutally honest behavior fears his personal as well as professional life crumbling. He is unofficially assigned to solve the case involving the infamous five.
Review:
Shaitan doesn’t come across as a work of debut director. The film has been beautifully structured with a daring screenplay, dialogues laced with wicked humour, excellent camerawork and crisp editing along with a whacky soundtrack as an accompaniment. There are moments in the film that just thrills you to the core. Watch out for Rajat Barmecha’s cameo appearance.
All the actors who have done a fab job portraying their characters. But the unsung hero of the film is the lyrical association of camera, edit and background score. The trio elevates almost each scene to a crescendo which is successful in giving audience a virtual high. One such scene is a chase sequence with a hip rendition of the classic Khoya Khoya Chand.
All the thing remaining the same, Shaitan is a brilliant masterpiece by debutant director Bejoy Nambiar, but one can still feel imprints of Anurag Kashyap all over it. Watch it for an experience that is as disturbing as it is beautiful.
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