20131103: Bollywood Review--Shadow

Shadow

1. Fundamentals, reception.
1. Indian live action feature length film, 129 minutes, 2009, action, crime, drama.
2. IMDB: 4.9/10.0 from 77 user ratings.  Spoken language is Telegu; English subtitles.
3. Rotten Tomatoes: 'No score yet,' 0% liked it from 9 audience ratings.
4. HuluPlus:  Will Inspector Sanjana catch criminal mastermind Arjun Sherawat?
5. Directed by: Rohit Nayyar.  Screenplay by Nasser Khan.  Producer: Nasser Khan.
6. Starring: Nasser Khan as Raju/Arjun, Sulnari Kulkarni as Inspector Sanjana Singh Rajpoot, Sachin Khedekar as Home Minister Shiv Shankar, Milind Soman as Rahul Kapoor, Hrishita Bhatt as Sheetal Pradhan.


2. Setup and Plot
1. The Mumbai police take a lot of flak from the press for not catching Arjun Sherawat.


2. Inspector Sanjana is on the case.  About 60 minutes in, it seems that's she's solved it.


3. Has she? No.  So we go for a second round of detect and chase.


4. She catches up with some of his henchmen, but loses a fight and is captured.  The explanation of her release was absent.  Hmph.


5. Her father (also her superior in the Mumbai Police) assigns a senior officer for her to work with.  They shoot and arrest Arjun, who gets sent to the hospital.  While there, he implicates some high-ranking officials, including Shiv Shankar.


6. Will the police sort this out?


3. Conclusions
1. As vanity films (Nasser Khan) go, this one is on the bad side.
2. One line summary: Inspector versus criminal mastermind in Mumbai.
3. Three stars of five.


4. Scores
1. Cinematography: 10/10 Nice looking throughout.


2. Sound: 8/10 OK.


3. Acting: 2/10 Between poor and non-existent. 


4. Screenplay: 6/10 Moves along from beginning to end, but might have been better as a 30 minute short instead of a 129 minute feature.


5. Musical Numbers: 6/10 So-so, but they were present.