Review: Red

Red (thriller)

Cast: Celina Jaitley, Aftab Shivdasani

Direction: Vikram Bhatt

Why Red? Why not Grey? Specially since most of the film has been shot in a ghostly gloom, with a weeping-wailing Celina Jaitley permanently caught in silhouette. Vikram Bhatt returns to his bleak underbelly of the human psyche where murder becomes the moot point of romance; and love becomes a cat and mouse game. Aftab is a heart patient who gets a timely heart transplant and is all set to pick up the strings of his life again. Only, he unfortunately decides to find out the name of his donor and ends up playing peeping tom to the comely widow (Celina) of the man who gave him a new lease of life. Mysterious widow. Mysterious circumstances of death. Mysterious intruders. Mysterious diaries. And mysterious demands of lust, love and passion. It's neither edge-of-the-seat, nor intense and dark. Just bleak. Watch it if you want to see Celina non-perform and Aftab video-walk to Himesh Reshamiya's faltu tunes.

SOURCE : THE TIMES OF INDIA