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SUBHASH K JHA

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[ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2003 12:10:28 PM ]
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It wouldn't be wrong to say writer-director Shashanka Ghosh's debut film gives a ricocheting twist to the theme of gangsters.

Waisa Bhi Hota Hai, Part 2 , starring Arshad Warsi, Prashant Naryanan, Sandhya Mridul, Pratima Kazmi is written & directed by Shashanka Ghosh.

Ever since Ram Gopal Varma's Satya emerged from the barrel of the gun, Hindi cinema has been frequenting the blood-soaked streets and lanes of Mumbai to understand the underworld.

Where Satya was raw, Waisa Bhi Hota Hai is quirky. Ghosh's attitude to violence is more bratty than bizarre. His ragged bunch of assassins and other outcasts are comic without being caricatures.

Turning the Satya theme on its head, Ghosh introduces white-collar adman Puneet (Arshad Warsi) as a man who's just split with his girlfriend (Sandhya Mridul), when he runs into a wounded gangster Vishnu (Prashant Narayanan).

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