Shaitan (2011)

Five substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident.

Director:

Bejoy Nambiar

Writers:

Abhijeet Deshpande (dialogue), Abhijit Deshpande,

Stars:

Kalki Koechlin, Shiv Pandit, Gulshan Devaiah

5 wins & 12 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Kalki Koechlin	...	Amrita 'Amy' Jayshankar
Shiv Pandit	...	Dash / Dushyant Sahu
Gulshan Devaiah	...	Karan 'KC' Chaudhary
Rajeev Khandelwal	...	Arvind Mathur
Neil Bhoopalam	...	Zubin
Kirti Kulhari	...	Tanya Sharma
Raj Kumar Yadav	...	Malwankar
Rajat Barmecha	...	Shomu
Nikhil Chinappa
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Abhijit Deshpande
Rajit Kapoor	...	Anand Jaishankar
Pavan Malhotra
Sheetal Menon	...	Nandini
Rukhsar
Simran Sawhney	...	Tokyo sam

Storyline

After the passing of her mother, and the entry of a step-mother, Amrita Jayshankar retreats into herself. Her father is summoned to her school and is told that his daughter may require counseling, but he refuses to believe and instead makes a donation to the school. Then Amrita meets with three males and a female, namely Zuben, Dushant Sahu, Karan Chaudhary; and Tanya Sharma respectively. Together they live it up with drugs and alcohol until things get out of control when they accidentally kill a couple. A corrupt police constable demands Rs.25 Lakhs to eliminate their involvement. Unable to come up with so much cash, the five decide to fake a kidnapping, demand the cash from Amrita's father, and clear their respective names. Amrita accordingly goes 'missing', and her father involves the police, who assign this case to once-suspended police inspector, Arvind Mathur. With the media getting involved, Arvind begins his investigation, but will soon find it hampered - complicating not only...

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Plot Keywords:

police | kidnapping | alcohol | hit and run | drugs | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

India

Language:

Hindi English

Release Date:

10 June 2011 (India)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Anurag Kashyap Films, Getaway Films, Viacom18 Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Composer Prashant Pillai just took one and a half hour to finish 'Bali - The Sound of Shaitan' from scratch.

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Crazy Credits

The end credits rotate about a point in screen instead of rolling upwards.

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Connections

References Mr India (1987)

User Reviews

Shaitan Movie Review – It's a Dark chocolate which is bitter but tastes real good

Ohh.. What a day yesterday, I had few tight sales meetings with the customers and was running between locals, auto and taxis across Mumbai. Also, it was raining heavily and I regretted not carrying an umbrella as I got drenched in rain and reached home by 9.30 pm. Back home , I badly wanted to refresh my mind from the day's events and decided to go for Shaitan, night 10.15 show and it turned out to be a perfect decision to wind myself from work and enjoy the time. Well, Shaitan opens up with Kalki Koechlin as Amy meeting Gulshan Devaiya as KC in a party. KC is a rich industrialist son and have 3 other friends – a struggling actress played by Kirti Kulhari , a sex obsessed computer geek Parsi played by Neil Bhopalam and a restaurant waiter cum drug peddler played by Shiv Pandit. Amy who had a tough childhood and has traits of mental disturbance becomes friends with these four characters and here starts the event of being naughty, being evil, being wrong but right in their own terms Their adventures and mischief's finally lands them in a trouble one fine Mumbai night when they accidentally run their Hummer over two scooter riders while flying high on speed and drugs. They try to forget it when a corrupt cop approaches them and asks them for 25 Lacs bribe to shut the case. These young kids don't want to go to their parents for certain reasons and plans the fake kidnapping of Amy. This brings in the entry of an honest but a very aggressive police officer Rajeev Khandelwal who is given the charge to solve this high profile kidnapping case and rest is what follows is a series of gripping incidents. The direction by debutant Bejoy Nambiar is really good. The way the events are created in the movie matching with real life incidents are the some of the best moments of the movie. There is one shot of gun fight battle between the cop and underworld agents in a chawl amidst the attempted rape of one of the friends and a dead body of a German tourist with "Khoya Khoya Chand" remixed version being played in the background. This scene is so well crafted and the screen play is mind boggling and is one the finest shots in the recent Hindi cinema. The song "Fareeda" which often plays in the background after the second half gives the pace to the movie and keeps you on your seats, if ever you feel too much violence and dark events. The only time the movie makes you feel boring is few sequences when Amy remembers her mother quite often. Rajeev Khandelwal as a tough cop makes his statement that he is such a fine actor and his talent is still unutilized by the industry. All the other actors have also played their role well. I can say that this is an out and out a Director's cut and kudos the debutant Bejoy Nambiar , who had assisted Maniratnam in Guru as he lives up to the expectations from an Anurag Kashyap's production. Go and watch Shaitan because it's dark and bitter but yet gripping and you will like it if you are not only an emotional drama lover and like watching different genre.