Cast: Mohit Ahlawat, Nisha Kothari, Zakhir Hussain, Prabhat Nawalkar
Director: Ram Gopal Verma
Music: Ilayaraja. Very good music with some repeats of old south Indian film hits.
Action: Very good thrills and well shot action sequences
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Ram Gopal Verma is back! Shiva is a brilliant directorial work. The technical aspects of the movie, the different angles of camerawork, use of background music are all extremely good. The movie plot is a hash of Telugu super hit Shiva and a bit of Telugu super hit Tagore (Chiranjeevi Starrer). An avid movie goer who has been following Vermas films right from his days in Tollywood would find many instances and scenes in the movie which were path breaking moments in verma’s earlier films.

Illayaraja comes up with pretty good music with couple of songs having tunes which are repeats of his south Indian hits. The performances by the actors is also very good and basically shows that when there is a good director the actors just need to fit into the script. Verma’s choice of actors for different characters in the film is also very good. Mohit Ahlawat plays a very good role which is reminiscent of the Angry young man Amitabh. Mohit’s physique also helps him have a dominant screen presence. Nisha Kothari however disappoints in emotional scenes. All hope is not lost as she definitely does not d isappoint the front benchers with generous bit of Skin show in couple of songs which is quite typical of a Ramgopal Verma movie.

The movie is just the right length and has the right amount of powerful effect and message conveyed. Definitely a must watch for Ram Gopal Verma fans and not at all a bad choice for some good timepass in the weekend.

By the way the Chor Police song finds itself censored with the cast only lip synching Chor but the actual song having the word muted.