

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
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.