Pure cinema at its best!!! what needs a special mention is the small nuances in the story which makes the story move forward and the attention to details which the director wants the audience to observe.Shanghai is edge of the seat political thriller one will ever get to see from Bollywood in years!!Dibaker Benerjee gets the story downward spiraling and gets the audience feel part of the story and the interrogation. The symbolic addressing of the movie theme to the socio-political arena adds to the tension of the plot and creates the atmosphere which makes it a perfect watch spearheading to a nail biting end.Do yourself a favor, watch Shanghai if you haven't yet.

I watched "Shanghai" yesterday and it is a decent Indianized adaptation of "Z" by Costa Gavraswhich had far reaching consequences in the real world. You can read the real life implications in my other review of the classic itself.Good acting from Deol and Emraan Haashmi carried the movie all over. There were some dramatics hrown in for Indianing the story but that goes with our taste and spirit. Same for a couple of songs and an Item number, to make it commercially viable.Mr Banerjee adapting from the Costa Gavras movie after 40 long years probably proves once again that a classic is "timeless". It is good that he did pay homage to the original during the name casting which some very well known directors sometimes miss so sorely ; example SLB when he made "Black" from "The Miracle"..

I used to be a fan of Dibakar Banerjee. I literally loved his direction in 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye' and 'Khosla's Nest'. 'Love Sex and Dhokha' was an unusual item in the bag. With great anticipation i went on to see the first day first show of 'Shanghai'. Incidentally i was with a girl and it was her B'day. I had her believed that Shanghai would be a great movie. The trailers were critical and i knew this was going to be a dark subject movie unlike the previous ones.I might not be a good critic but i can profoundly say that the movie sucked on every level. Keeping aside the 1500 odd movies that i have seen, even if i was a naive i would rate it awful! I mean the story, acting, direction and whatever it takes to make a movie were essentially dismal. i destroyed a B'day....please you don't.DON'T WATCH IT

I am happy after watching this movie not because the movie has a optimistic feel to it (its actually the exact opposite,as it should be) but on seeing how dibakar has used a story that is so real and holds true to a country like India where the present political system is so corrupt and the power hungry mongers will go to any extent to achieve money and power without thinking about the implication that it might cost. Now coming back to the movie,the location used looks like a true Indian city or a town. People who are fed up of seeing lavish houses in most of the Indian movies or only foreign locations and fell guilty as more than 90% of the people don't have that luxury will be content. Acting wise i am happy with all except Kalki Koechlin,some how she seems too plastic in her acting but i think she did her best. So looking at the way Indian politicians and its citizens our behaving India has a bleak future but if such movies are made which have an overall good story,acting,locations and such and puts forward realism than hypocrisy as in many other Indian films,Indian cinema has a bright future. So hats off to the whole team involved especially Dibakar Banerjee for his efforts in making a movie such as this. Good work Keep it up.