Vikas Bahl’s ‘Shaitaan’ is more thriller than horror, and it needed more chills, but it’s generically watchable
- Trinity Auditorium
- Mar 9, 2024
- 1 min read
The film stars Ajay Devgn, R Madhavan, Jyotika. It doesn’t commit itself fully to its conceits, but the actors keep us watching.
There’s something interesting about the conception of Shaitaan, adapted from the Gujarati film Vash and directed by Vikas Bahl. It is the age-old story about a teenage girl (the excellent Janki Bodiwala) being possessed – but this is not exactly a “possession”, as we know it. In this kind of movie, the devil remains an unseen presence, but here we see the shaitaan (played by R Madhavan) and – get this!! – he does not seem to have any powers of his own. Then how is he able to take control of the girl? Despite the fact that the mother (Jyotika) instantly guesses that this is some kind of kaala jadoo, black magic – is it, really? The reason for the possession involves a scientific explanation, and the reason the Devil is vanquished (at least till the probable sequel resuscitates him) also involves science and technology, namely some software.
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