Director:

Dibakar Banerjee

Cast:

Emraan Hashmi as Joginder Parmar

Abhay Deol as T. A. Krishnan

Kalki Koechlin as Shalini Sahay

Prosenjit Chatterjee Dr. Ahmadi

Pitobash Tripathy as Bhagu

Farooq Sheikh as Kaul

Tillotama Shome as Mrs. Ahmedi

Music:

Vishal-Shekhar

Based on the novel ‘Z’ by Vassilis Vassilikos.

Story:

A small town somewhere in India is poised to become the next Shanghai. Billions of dollars are being poured into an upcoming International Business Park. On the eve of its launch a drunk truck driver mows down a prominent social activist. A lone girl believes it to be a murder, supported by a porn film maker who claims to have the proof that will bring the government down. A high ranking bureaucrat is brought in to investigate the accident.

Review:

Shanghai, is not your typical Bollywood movie. It doesn’t have the usual masala and the unnecessary dancing at every second. It has only two occasions where there were people dancing. It starts slow, but it has a good story. It was a good movie.

Kalki cannot act! And Abhay Deol cannot speak Tamil. Though he tries very hard he only pronounces certain words like tamilians. The movie has a good story line and the music was pretty good too. Emraan Hashmi is the only person who acts good (Strange!). The movie is like a documentary. When Krishnan, uses tact and cunning to get his superior to prosecute the minister, was the best scene in the movie.

The Directing by Dibakar Banerjee was pretty good. And the movie was pretty good too.

 

Final Verdict:

6.5/10