Just an amazing movie

Rating: 7/10 (9 January 2009)

An excellent movie to start with, right from the direction to the acting. More than half the movies that get released from India, or should I rather say Bollywood are crap, though the directors can't be blamed for it as it's the public that demands for commercial(albeit unrealistic) movies. One of the things that wowed me is the editing/screenplay. The initial sequences where the scene flips from the cop slapping dev, and dev entering the game show was brilliant.
The only flaw I believe is that the movie isn't entirely filmed in Hindi. You don't see underworld gangsters conversing in English in India, and neither can one expect two brothers who have conversed previously with each other in Hindi, to meet some fine day and start conversing in English. This was unrealistic. The director could have filmed in Hindi and resorted to English subtitles. Anyways the strengths of this movie encompasses all its weaknesses. This movie reminded me of Blood Diamond, which was the other recent movie where I felt as if I was a part of the plot. Any bit of praise would not commensurate for the brilliance shown by this movie. I would be terribly disappointed it it misses the Oscars. The entire plot, the acting has been outright natural. Credit to the director for portraying the scene back at the slums in Mumbai, in its original unaltered self.
A movie that I would recommend to all.