Review : Shool

Folks, this film is as good as they get. I consider none better (in the drama genre) except “Company” – and that explains my going into raptures over this film. E.Nivas gives us this absolutely amazing movie, complete with drama, awesome acting, and an item number to boot. Here’s the spoiler-free gist :

Samar Pratap Singh (Manoj Bajpai) is an honest police officer, and Manjari (Raveena Tandon) his supportive wife. They have a little daughter Sonu. Samar, because of his honesty is frequently being transferred, and has now finally reached the little town of Motihari in Bihar. We see him and his family at the railway station, and subsequently also see Samar upbraiding a high-handed constable for his insensitiveness to ordinary citizens.

Motihari’s lord and master, so to speak, is slimy MLA Bachu Yadav (Sayaji Shinde). The police and most of Samar’s colleagues kow-tow to Yadav . The epitome of corruption, Yadav has been the MLA for 15 years, but loses his ticket as his party opts for someone else. On hearing this ,Yadav makes short shrift of the unfortunate man, and avails himself of the party ticket. Samar, an honest cop, has frequent run-ins with Yadav, to the point where he (Samar) begins to fear for his family. Does Samar manage to take on Yadav and win ? The rest of the movie says it all.

This is an engrossing film, and is pretty violent in content. Bajpai is truly the best hindi film actor in the industry, and Raveena matches him in a low-key, plain, house-wifey role. Sayaji Shinde shines as the absolutely corrupt and moralless Yadav. The only flaw that I could see, in this seemingly perfect film, was that Raveena was too glamorous for the role of Manjari. A docile looking plain-Jane would have been better suited.