In 1990s RGV slowly post RANGEELA became a director to reckon with, he also produced several great films, SHOOL was one of them. The film brings together the talents of Anurag Kashyap and E-Niwas together The film narrates a story of an honest cop told hundred times but treated with difference, here the cop doesn't dance on the road but is a human character. The film is set in Bihar and looks realistic,and the film sticks to the main story,hardly shifting the focus. The film starts off well and has several scenes well told, though many things have been witnessed before, but the manner in which it's treated is superb. The film does get a bit filmy in the climax and may not seem convincing, but Manoj's speech is superb(A similar flaw was in E-Niwas's Bardaasht too)
Direction is amazing, E-Niwas did a few more films like LKLKBK, Dumb and Bardaasht and later De Taali and hardly his films worked but got acclaim Music is decent, UP BIhar Lootne became famous and made Shilpa famous too
Manoj Bajpai who became famous after SATYA did a great job yet again in Shool, no other actor could play his part better, he is simply brilliant Raveena Tandon who was busy doing films with Govinda took a break and did a good role after GHULAM E MUSTAFA where too she had an interesting cameo, she is superb Vineeth Kumar is amazing as Tiwari, Ganesh Yadav is superb, Yashpal Sharma is as usual(one of his first roles),Nagesh Bhosle too is good, Sayaji Shinde is simply marvellous in his role, sadly he got typecast after this, but he was so realistic that he makes you believe his real life persona is like that. Virendra Saxena is good,Pratima Kazmi, Valabh Vyas are as usual The film has interesting cameos by Nawzuddin Siddiqui(playing a waiter not knowing English) who is just for one scene, Rajpal Yadav too plays a coolie,both in their struggling days.
Direction is amazing, E-Niwas did a few more films like LKLKBK, Dumb and Bardaasht and later De Taali and hardly his films worked but got acclaim Music is decent, UP BIhar Lootne became famous and made Shilpa famous too
Manoj Bajpai who became famous after SATYA did a great job yet again in Shool, no other actor could play his part better, he is simply brilliant Raveena Tandon who was busy doing films with Govinda took a break and did a good role after GHULAM E MUSTAFA where too she had an interesting cameo, she is superb Vineeth Kumar is amazing as Tiwari, Ganesh Yadav is superb, Yashpal Sharma is as usual(one of his first roles),Nagesh Bhosle too is good, Sayaji Shinde is simply marvellous in his role, sadly he got typecast after this, but he was so realistic that he makes you believe his real life persona is like that. Virendra Saxena is good,Pratima Kazmi, Valabh Vyas are as usual The film has interesting cameos by Nawzuddin Siddiqui(playing a waiter not knowing English) who is just for one scene, Rajpal Yadav too plays a coolie,both in their struggling days.