Hansal Mehta's eponymous Shahid does justice to a complex yet humane character, who went for arms training to a terrorist training camp in the POK, arrested by Indian police on his return, served jail as a TADA detainee and then was acquitted by a court of law for lack of admissible evidence.Importantly, the narrative doesn't take recourse to sensationalism and stereotype as it winds its way beginning with the 1993 Mumbai riots, Shahid's subsequent landing at a POK terror camp, his release from jail, his practice of law in Mumbai and his defense of those falsely implicated in the series of terrorist attacks that maimed and killed innocents since 2003. Actor Rajkumar's portrayal of Shahid is brilliant and vulnerable at the same time as Shahid tries to lead a normal life of a family man with his wife, mother and three siblings and defense lawyer who fights for justice of a community that is painted with the brush of Islamic terrorism without thought or proof. All in all, Mehta's Shahid is not an in your face film. It is a subtle, thought-provoking and gutsy story of a person who believed! Do not miss this movie!