Monsoon Shootout Hindi film review - Nicely made, topped by superlative performances...

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The noir thriller movie starts with a builder getting killed by a contract killer. A cop gets a chance to finish him off in an encounter, but he remembers his father's words. The right path, the wrong path, and the middle path.

The film was good, not boring at all! Realistic. The director Amit Kumar admits that he enjoyed Robert Enrico's Oscar-winning short film An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge so much that he chose to write a story of his own and make it into this film. This film was the official selection for the Midnight Screening at the Cannes Festival (2013). Glad it got a release, finally! I particularly liked how he brings to life his perspectives on spontaneous decision-making.

Neeraj Kabi, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Geetanjali Thapa are numero uno in their performances.

I'm glad Nawazuddin Siddiqui himself realizes that he is time-and-again playing similar gangster/serial killer roles. I understand that's all he may be offered, and that he does it to pay his bills. I'm super excited to read about his new films - both of them bio-pics, one of the controversial Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto and the other of the Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. It'll be fun watching him do something different.

The music by Rochak Kohli, Viveick & Mayur is decent and Seher Latif's casting is impeccable.

My verdict: 3.5 out of 5. Enjoyed it. Watch it for the lead actor Vijay Varma's sincerity. He pumps life and confusion into the choices he is faced with and makes his character palpable.