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Monsoon Shootout is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Amit Kumar and produced by Guneet Monga, Trevor Ingma, Martijn de Grunt, and co-produced by Anurag Kashyap, and Vivek Rangachari, starring Vijay Varma, Geetanjali Thapa, Sreejita De, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tannishtha Chatterjee in the lead roles. The film received positive reviews at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Official Midnight Screenings section.[1][2] Belonging to the school of Parallel cinema, Monsoon Shootout was released worldwide four years later on 15 December 2017 to positive reviews.[3][4][5][6]
However, the ambush goes wrong, and Adi chases Shiva, a seemingly armed and dangerous criminal, into a dead-end alley. Unsure if Shiva is, indeed, the wanted gangster, Adi has a moment of reckoning; whether to shoot or not to shoot. Whatever his decision is, every decision will take him on a journey that pits him against a system which demands a compromise of his morals. As he lives through the dramatic consequences of each decision, he realizes that every choice has its price.
Director Amit Kumar stated that after he saw Robert Enrico's Oscar-winning short film An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, he became interested and fascinated by the idea of human decision-making, and how quickly can one make a very difficult decision when one's life is at stake. This idea came to fruition in the form of Monsoon Shootout.[7]
Kumar had previously assisted film director Asif Kapadia on his BAFTA-winning feature The Warrior where he met Trevor Ingman. Ingman decided to help seek finances for Kumar's film starting in 2008, but was unable to do so because of the closure of the UK Film Council which was initially supposed to cover half the production costs. Kumar set sights to find an Indian production partner, and in 2010, he ran into Guneet Monga who had produced Michael Winterbottom's Trishna. When Kumar stated his lack of an Indian producer, Monga immediately jumped at the opportunity to fund the film. However, the producers decided that although they loved Kumar's script and idea, they felt he needed to cast a star in the lead role. Kumar worked with Nawazuddin Siddiqui in his student short film The Bypass and decided to cast him in the lead role.[8]
The Times of India's Lasyapriya Sundaram rated the film 3/5, praising the cinematography of Rajeev Ravi and Vijay Varma's debut performance in a lead role. She opines that "while the idea hooks the viewer, what fails the film is its execution", also critiquing that "since the actors reprise their roles thrice over, they often don't have enough screen time to flesh out their characters adequately".[3]
Saibal Chatterjee writing in NDTV headlines the review saying, "Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Noir Thriller Is Absorbing, Even Startling". He describes the film as "Shot through with stylistic flourishes and narrative sleights that frequently add up to arresting images and moments, first-time director Amit Kumar's niftily crafted Monsoon Shootout is absorbing, even startling. The propulsive, crisply edited noir thriller set in Mumbai's dark, dank and dangerous underbelly is consistently intriguing on account of its structure. Add to this the film's all-around technical finesse and the near-flawless performances from the principal actors and you have a crime drama that has the feel of a veritable tour de force." He praises the score by Gingger Shankar, defining it as pulsating with the energy that adds a throbbing soundscape to the film. Rating it as 3/5, he recommends the film to viewers saying "Don't prevaricate or duck for cover. Walk right into the path of this slickly staged shootout. You won't regret the decision."[5]
Shalini Langer writing in The Indian Express, finds the film somewhat lacking in consistency but overall praises the director, actors and especially the cinematographer Rajeev Ravi for capturing the unglamorous side of Mumbai in all its ambiguity.[4]
The film was shown during the French 2013 Cannes Film Festival in theMidnight Screenings section.[1][2] Early Cannes reception for the film has been positive with many international critics taking a liking to the film's noir, artistic detailing.
British newspaper The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave a very positive first look review of the film stating that it's "a brash exploitation picture, a violent thriller on the tough streets of Mumbai about rule-breaking, bone-breaking cops" and "an entertaining popcorn movie with a twist, for which commercial success is on the cards." He described the film as "Dirty Harry meets Sliding Doors."[10]
The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young described the film as "a ferocious Mumbai cops and gangsters drama, and a satisfyingly arty plot that turns in on itself to examine the outcome of three possible choices a rookie cop might make when he confronts a ruthless killer. Three times the story returns to a key moment: a boy with a gun uncertain whether to pull the trigger." She had major praise for Nawazuddin Siddiqui's performance, stating that "Most memorable of all is Siddiqui, who is every inch an unstoppable force of nature, and lucky we are that so much of the violence he wreaks happens off-camera."[11]
Those actions and events may not necessarily come as huge surprises but they will glue eyes to the screen. Given that each scenario is rather brief, there are a lot of cuts and a lot of jumps forward in the story, which helps to accelerate the action and hopefully lead to an outcome the viewer will agree, or disagree, with. Within this rapid-fire framework, the characters may perhaps be underdeveloped, but placing archetypical attribute on them helps to resolve these quick developments.
Adi is the noble, novice rookie. His commanding officer is either corrupt or jaded or just plain practical given the political system in India. The two are out to get the slum lord, a powerful behind the scenes figure who uses his henchmen to carry out heinous acts. Lastly, though not the final character, there is the ruthless Shiva (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), the alleged axeman for the slum lord. The gun Adi holds is critical for the pivotal shootout that ripples across each characters life. Each actor holds his or her own and gives us a believable performance within their confines.
Rain-splashed bloodied puddles of questioning, probing, searching emotional and physical violence... "Monsoon Shootout" is a curious case of a potentially routine cops-and-killer sanguinary saga given a certain fresh twist of ambivalence by writing skills that know their "Dirty Harry" as closely as they know "Ardh Satya".
There is a 'tadka' of circumstantial ambiguity, a twist of fate, if you will, whereby a rookie policeman's 'rookie-rookie si zindagi' gets more unscheduled excitement on his first assignment than he had bargained for.
A serial killer is on the prowl. And really, in how many ways can Nawazuddin be cast as the psychotic outcast? It was a hammer in hand in "Raman Raghav", it's an axe here. The slayings are staged stylishly in the slippery monsoon of Mumbai when it's easy for the elusive to give the pursuant the slip.
This is exactly what the narrative does on us. Like Nawaz's Shiva, it repeatedly gives us the slip, leaving us with unanswered questions just when the policeman Adi (Vijay Varma, impressively callow and intense) corners the killer at gunpoint. Repeatedly, and with incessant pounding at the plot's epicenter, the narrative takes on a what-if tangent, creating a cat-and-mouse game of its own between the camera and the audience.
It is an impressive performance, staged to seduce and please us, not always hitting bull's eye but never losing sight of its target. There are energetic sexual encounters, involving a migrant sex worker (Sreejita De) that convey the desperation of a city on the edge, and a populace on the prowl.
"Monsoon Shootout" succeeds in gripping us by our collective jowls in spite of a certain staleness in the plot, and a stiffness in the joints of the narrative. The camera manned by Rajiv Ravi prowls through Mumbai's crowded monsoonal mayhem with emphatic energy.
Some of the moral dilemma, specially those involving the criminal's young teenaged son (interesting juvenile newcomer Farhan Mohammad Hanif Shaikh) are disturbing to the extreme. Director Amit Kumar doesn't hesitate from making hard choices on behalf of his characters. Consequently, this dark blood-dimmed film leaves us with a hollow feeling in our stomachs.
Before leaving for his first day he and his mother discuss something his father always used to say, that there are three paths in life; the right path, the wrong path and the middle path. But Adi points out that it is up to him to find his own path.
Following the cover-up Kahn and Adi head off in search of Shiva (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a violent criminal who has been carrying out contract murders for a slum lord using an axe. They track Shiva down, the rain begins to fall heavily, he flees and Adi gives chase. Cornering him in an alley Adi has a clear shot of Shiva but Shiva appears to be unarmed. Should he take the shot or not? Which is the right path?
We then see three versions of the story. In one version he decides not to. In one he wounds him, Shiva continues to run for a short distance then reaches into a bag and Adi shoots him. And in the final version he simply wounds him.
In each of three stories the characters also behave in very different ways that go beyond simply what has changed narrative wise. Their behaviour, the way they approach a situation and their innate characteristics should surely be consistent. But Kumar again messes with the logic and characters behave in wildly different ways, again undermining the narrative conceit.
Despite these issues with the characterisation the performances themselves are at least reasonably good with Kabi as Kahn standing out, with his cool and morally compromised character also getting many of the best lines.
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