Red: The Dark Side review :
Before hitting gold with the horror genre, Vikram Bhatt dabbled in everything from love stories to hard core action to erotic thrillers. Red: The Dark Side was one such erotic drama he directed starring Aftab (Faffy) Shivadasani, Celina Jaitley and Amrita Arora. It was quite an unforgettable experience for me at Movetime Starcity, Matunga where there were just a handful of patrons with me in the Saturday late evening show. I had strolled in to the cinema after enjoying a couple of drinks with my friends and that could be the reason I actually enjoyed the film tremendously as a guilt pleasure.
Red starts with a depressed looking Faffy who gets his ailing heart transplanted from a donor. The inquisitive type that he is, Faffy gets the information about his donor from his doctor friend (the ever pretty Kishori Shahane in a cameo) and then sets to befriend his donor's widow (Celina Jaitley) who is convinced her hubby was murdered by his girlfriend (Amrita Arora) with whom he was having an extra-marital. Oof!!
The acting was minimalistic. So was the lead actors clothing particularly Celina Jaitley.. Admittedly, she looked damn hot in the movie and I loved her more here than even in her debut Janasheen (2003). Nah, it wasn't the 'daaru' influence, I bet ya!! Faffy was totally misfit in his role and he transformed many serious moments in to unintentional hilarity. Amrita got relegated to sidelines due to her ill-written character. She looked stunning though!!
The best part of Red was Himesh Reshammiya's songs which were mostly utilized for lovemaking scenes between Faffy and hottie Celina. Normally, I have seen people walk out for a smoke during songs but no one ventured out during Red probably as they didnt want to miss the sex scenes.
Don't wish to play spoiler (not that you would care..), but Red ended on an expected note where you knew who the culprit was long before...but I still walked out getting my tickets worth. This is one guilt pleasure cinema I will never forget. Cheers!!
Regards,
Sumeet Nadkarni.
