Gangster; a woman and two different men

'Gangster', a Hindi film about a woman who is torn between her two lovers - a gangster on the run from the police and a man who promises her a decent life is now screened (with English subtitles) at the Regal Cinema Colombo.

Told entirely in flashback, the film is directed and screenplay written by Anurag Basu. Played by debutante Kangna Ranaut a woman living in Seoul, South Korea and Emraan Hashmi and Shiney Ahuja play the other two major roles in 'Gangster'.

The movie is reflection of the statement that the human heart in conflict with itself is the life blood of all drama.

All is not well with Simran. She is young, beautiful and a semi alcoholic spiralling towards certain doom, when she has a chance meeting with Akash, who is a singer in an Indian restaurant in South Korea. Their relationship graduates from friendship to passionate love. It is then that Akash learns of the demons that gnaw at Simran's soul, a girl who has a sordid past. Not only has she journeyed from the bars of Mumbai to the Fareast, but she is also the girlfriend of the dreaded gangster Daya, who is the most-wanted underworld fugitive from India.

When Daya discovers her relationship with Akash, he promises to go straight, in order to keep her and fulfill her dreams of a normal, simple life. However, life is not so simple and Simran discovers at that point that she is pregnant from Akash. What Simran does to solve the dilemma, hurls her into a firestorm that she could never have anticipated and now has to battle to be able to unite with the one man that she truly loves.

The backbone of 'Gangster' is its story, which though not unusual, still keeps you riveted to the screen until the end, solely because of the way it has been presented by the director. Without resorting to unnecessary gimmickry stereotypical of commercial cinema, 'Gangster' makes a worth watching cinema.