Red – Fire Of Love Review: Krushna Abhishek and Payal Ghosh starrer film is half-baked

RED – FIRE OF LOVE

Producer- Rajeev Chaudhary

Director- Ashok Tyagi

Cast- Krushna Abhishek, Payal Ghosh, Shashi Sharma, Kamlesh Sawant and Bharat Dabholkar

Platform of Release- Theatres

Rating:

By Jyothi Venkatesh

The plot revolves around Rajveer Sinha, (Krushna Abhishek) a celebrated novelist, who becomes enmeshed in the complex web between fiction and reality. As the story unfolds, Rajveer struggles with navigating the blurred boundaries between the characters that he sets out to etch in his novels and the tangible world. Amidst the exploration of Rajveer’s internal struggle, the film sidetracks the main plot and tries its best to blend romance with an erotic thriller.

The film is in short, a diluted half-baked attempt at a psychological thriller that leaves us wanting much more, especially after the high expectations we had, when the film begins on a crisp note, and we are shown the posh bungalow of a celebrated novel writer who returns home after the Police Commissioner releases his best seller.

As far as performances are concerned, all that I can say is that Krushna Abhishek tries his level best to make a mark as the psychotic, narcissistic and self-cantered bipolar Rajveer, who has lost his wife when she commits suicide and is seen brooding for the rest of his drab life, but unfortunately the script lets him down to prove his mettle in a negative non-comical image.

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Payal Ghosh as the housewife turned call girl Poonam puts in a spirited performance and enlivens the proceedings in the film though her role is by itself half-baked and does not offer her much scope to perform.

Honestly speaking, among the actors in the film, it is Kamlesh Sawant alone who steals the show as an actor in the film, despite the fact that he is typecast as the typical cop who sets out to investigate the so-called murder of not giving his all. Bharat Dabholkar makes his presence felt as a corrupt doctor who has brought up the protagonist. Shashi Sharma has been wasted as Poonam’s maid.

The writing lacks steam and why the guy who is being treated at the best seller writer’s house and his companion, who are shown repeatedly tracing the guy, do not end up catching Rajveer in his game.

 To sum up, the half-baked film lacks steam halfway through and for reasons best known to the producer, the film all of a sudden set out to sprint to a bland finale even before all the knots in the film are resolved one after the other, that too in a logic manner.