Gangster is inarguably an offbeat thriller with loads of passion, betrayal and action.
Gangster hit the silver screen like a fresh wave of energized embodiment of modern cinema.Miles away from a regular boxoffice masala stuff, it got engraved into the hearts of millions with such enormity that it resurrected the prospects of arrival of magnanimous creative talent.The new comers were ravishing capable of delivering a rip roaring performance.
A unique doleful love story between a bar dancer and a criminal which corroborated the new definition of emotional bonding between two individuals who cross each other in certain circumstances of their lives and consequently decide to become a pillar of strength for each other to overcome the clouds of adversity.
Since a criminal’s life is constantly hovered by chasing police officers, he was not able to manage a decent living with his counterpart female no matter how much he desperately wanted to, is sensitively conveyed in the movie.
Caught in isolation and despondency owing to doomed fortune with a criminal who is shifting places lest he gets knocked down by frantically searching Indian cops, the
leading lady resorts to seek emotional support from an Indian whom she accidently meets in the foreign land.
The death of the innocent child reared by the criminal and his lady love is marked by a wave of emotions which hit the audience with equal intensity.Ludicrous and contemptible comments of Gulshan Grover against the lady love of the criminal sparks off a bitter relationship between the criminal and his father figure Gulshan Grover who brought him into the world of crime.
An intensely emotional song Ya Ali which also set the music charts on fire sent jitters down the spine, reflecting an intricately handled direction.The movie takes a 360 degree turn with the leading lady turning tables in favour of her newly found love who is actually a policeman in disguise sent on a mission to trace the criminal.She is herself plunged in grief to the extent of being unable to realize the true motive of her new love.
She dupes her previous lover so that she would live happily ever after with Akash, the character played by Imraan Haashmi.The manner in which her criminal lover is caught by the cops at the railway station and he screams in bewilderment and insolence at the role of his own love in getting him arrested is an explicitly well shot scene.Even the hearts of audience might have melted down at the fate of the criminal and he wins the sympathy card of the audience due to his impeccable ocean deep love for his lady love who betrays him for another man.
Only when she encounters the actual face of her newly found love who holds a press conference to celebrate the surrender of the dreaded criminal and hurls nasty comments on him and his lady love which is she herself, then she realizes the gravity of mistake committed by her.She vents her anger on the disguised policeofficer and is unable to come to terms with the deplorable state of affairs she made for herself and her former lover.She decides to meet her former lover in jail and the backdrop song “Hamari Adhoori Kahaani” brought out the sentiments with full force.
The lady decides to avenge the backstabbing done on her and reaches the residence of the policeofficer and out of uncontrollable rage starts firing bullets at him till he is knocked down on the floor smeared by his own blood.
He also manages to fire a bullet at her which strikes her body and both eventually land up in a hospital where the police officer is declared dead and the lady without waiting for her wounds to heal reaches the top floor of the hospital and intentionally falls off the ceiling exactly at the time when her former lover was supposed to be hanged.
A painful ending for all the lead characters who won over the expectations of the audience with their acting prowess and camera friendly shots and overpowering histrionics.