Critics term Anurag Kashyap's movie as "contemporary, thrilling, hard-hitting with a forceful content". In all, director Bejoy Nambiar's effort to marry form and content magnificently have come out to be successful. Says Taran Adarsh (Bollywood Hungama), "What really makes Shaitan stand out from films of its ilk is that it captures the pragmatism or matter-of-factness characteristic most compellingly.
