Updated On: 31 January, 2025 10:27 PM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
It’s easy to tell why the lead actor picked up this script—it is a Shahid showcase/showreel. There are, in some ways, two Shahids in the cinema, for the price of one.

Shahid Kapoor in Deva
Of course, I don’t know better, but this is the sort of film that, I suspect, starts with the semi-profound idea! That is, let’s make a buddy-cop actioner, and cast Shahid Kapoor at the centre of it. Everything else is meant to follow. Alas, it doesn’t, always.
To be fair, during some parts, it does—beginning with montage shots and similar scenes (shot by Amit Roy), capturing the chaos of lower-deck South Mumbai, followed by a few cracker sequences similarly set in live locations.