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Gangster
Cast
: Emraan Hashmi, Roshan 'Shiny' Ahuja, Kangna Ranaut, Vicky Ahuja, Gulshan Grover, Master Hitanshu Lodhia, Sachin Karekar
Directors
: Anurag Basu
Music
: Pritam Chakraborty
Producers
: Mukesh Bhatt
Rating
: ***
 
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"Gangster" is not really a film about homicidal crime. Nor is it a film that dwells stylishly on the glossy exteriors of the high life. It focuses on the stark interiors of hearts that ruthlessly seek love in relentlessly self-serving places.

In what is possibly the toughest role written for a female newcomer Kangna stumbles across a minefield of volatile emotions.

Never shy of exposing the inner-most contours of a lacerated heart and soul, writer Mahesh Bhatt gives us a love triangle between a girl on the brink Simran (Kangna), her gangster-lover Daya (Shiney Ahuja) and the man (Emraan Hashmi) who comes into her life to put balm on her frayed nerves.

Director Anurag Basu captures the desperate anxieties of the three-way passion-play with high-voltage sequences each done in lush untried colours of life's most complicated trajectory.

There is a curvaceous feeling to every swing and swerve of this dramatically done plot.

The narrative offers surprises all through, with heart-stopping moments of suspense to punctuate the terse pauses between one dramatic high and another. It is hard to guess which way the feverish plot would finally go.

Many moments capturing the girl's anguished dilemma remain clearly etched as illustrations of director Basu's ability to hold the dramatic pitch at a high decibel without toppling over the weight of over-statement.

Specially memorable is the gangster Daya's arrest at the Seoul station. As he shrieks and protests against the injustice of a justice system that turns his love into a mocking betrayal - the narrative tells us how difficult it is to take a moral stand on the question of right and wrong in the matter of love and morality. The crowded lanes of Seoul and the festive festering decadent setting add considerably to the intensity level of this high-pitched drama of love, passion, jealousy, sacrifice and atonement.

Stylishly shot by cinematographer Bobby Singh, "Gangster" is a gripping tale where all three principal actors turn in competent performances. 

Emraan's strait-laced supportive-suitor's act is well balanced against Shiney's smouldering crime-lord turned repentant lover's act.

But the surprise package is debutante Kangna. From burnt-out alcoholic, to a woman in love and finally a woman willing to pay the ultimate price for her heart's peace... the girl goes through the complex gamut of emotions with a perceptible lack of self-consciousness.

Like Bhatt's early films, "Gangster" takes us to the darkest recesses of the human heart where the devil and the saint are slyly affiliated. It is a film that isn't afraid to let its feelings show.

And that's what makes it notches above the run-of-the-mill bang-bang-kiss-kiss fare.

So is this really mobster Abu Salem's love story? By the end of "Gangster" you really don't care. The characters go far beyond the source material. Definitely worth watching.

 
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