Five substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident.
Direction
Nambiar's music-video aesthetic that somehow makes depravity look delicious
Cinematography
Saturated Mumbai nights that breathe neon and dread
Editing
Frantic cross-cutting that mirrors the characters' unraveling sanity
Director
Bejoy Nambiar
Rajeev Khandelwal
Inspector Arvind Mathur
Kalki Koechlin
Amrita "Amy" Jayshankar
Shiv Panditt
Dushyant "Dash" Sahu
Neil Bhoopalam
Zubin Shroff
Gulshan Devaiah
Karan "K.C." Chaudhary
Kirti Kulhari
Tanya Sharma
Rajit Kapoor
Amy's Father
Rajat Barmecha
Shomu
Shivani Tanksale
Amy's Mother
Pavan Malhotra
Police Commissioner
Rajkummar Rao
Malwankar
Rukhsar Rehman
Tanya's Sister
Sheetal Menon
Nandini Mathur
Shelly Skandrani
Claudia Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shaitan was part of a 2010s wave of 'dark Bollywood' that rejected song-and-dance formulas for gritty urban realism — though it kept the musical numbers as ironic counterpoint.
The 'Bali' sequence where the friends trip in a nightclub remains one of the most visually intoxicating scenes in Indian cinema — and was reportedly improvised after the actors actually partied together.
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