Awarapan is a venture that is caught between two worlds. On the one hand, with its focus on organized crime and religion, and its portrayal of the universal, epic battle between the incorruptible and the corrupt, it is very, well, vanilla fare. But it also rises a notch above that rank; it is still somewhat unusual, and somewhat risky, for a run-of-the-mill, Bollywood action-packed thriller to dwell on the idea of atheism, piety and God.
The film itself, entangled as it is in this nexus of themes, creates a world where its characters are also caught in a web of dilemmas. At the ....