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[Erwin Beatz]

Interestinglylike Drishyam, the story of Shaitaan is drawn from a regional film. Director Vikas Bahl, who is attempting a new genre in every film with varying success, has adapted the Gujarati film Vash to create a frantic sensory experience. It is hard to sell a supernatural occurrence in 2024 but Vikas manages to strike an emotional chord with a sceptical audience, the way Ram Gopal Varma used to do once upon a time.

The story is simple and initially gives the impression that it has already been told in the 140-second trailer. Ajay and Jyothika play an urban couple who are struggling to keep their worldly-wise kids in check. On a trip to their farmhouse, they come across a stranger named Vanraaj (Madhavan). Initially, he seems like an amiable gentleman who needs a little help but soon he shows his true colours and turns out to be an English-speaking occultist who has possessed their daughter Janvi (Janaki Bodiwala).

Had Vanraaj been given a credible backstory, the film would have got a lot more depth or one should say Gehrayee (1980), the Aruna-Vikas classic horror that was also about a girl possessed by a spirit. It had a strong undercurrent on the horrors of lopsided development but here, from the charm of fake news to the spell of a demagogue on blind followers, there are plenty of possibilities and metaphors that seem waiting to be addressed but the writers prefer to keep it a straight battle between black and white. Even the verdant potential of a name like Vanraaj and the presence of transgenders in his team have neither been exploited nor explored.

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