Shabri is grim and brown. At times, it is even tiring because of how much you have to concentrate to figure out what's happening in the low light. The tone given to the regular gang-war story is very serious too. Even if you are looking forward to a story about a woman gangster, I'd say this isn't something worth getting too excited about.

Final few words : Shabri is a meditation on the underworld and Lalit Marathe is a director to watch out for.

Rating : ***

Ticket meter : worth a 100 bucks.

An effective enough throwback to the glory days of Satya and Company, Shabri is a film that symbolizes the rampant commercialization and inherent ‘dumbing down’ of Indian cinema (especially gangster/underworld genres) during the last decade…just by being a solid, sophisticated representation of what it should be.