Originally not being that sure about taking a look at the film,due to it looking like a rather light Erotic Thriller,I started to become very interested in seeing the movie after catching a glimpse of its wonderful poster,and also due to finding out that Vikram Bhatt, (whose terrific Horror Razz was one of my first Bollywood movies) had co-written the screenplay of the film,which would hopefully lead to the movie having an icy Neo-Noir mood and also featuring a strongly charged Erotic atmosphere.
The plot:
Celebrating with a fellow reporter over having secretly recorded a meeting between a government minister and a businessman,investigating reporter Kaavya Krishna suddenly gets a phone call from the co-owner of the company:Siddharth Dhanrajgir.Telling her that he has perfectly planted a fall guy to take the hit for the company,Siddharth tells Krishna the he is so impressed with her investigating skills that he would like to offer her a high-ranking job at the company.
Accepting Dhanrajgir's offer,Kaavya wraps up all of her journalist connections and sets off for the business world.Being taken by Siddharth's charms,Krishna and Dhanrajgir start to become much more then business partners as their relationship begins to get steamy.
Heading to the office one day,Krishna is shocked to discover that her key card has been made invalid.Going to Siddharth to find out what is happening to the companies computer system,Kaavya is given the shock of her life when Dhanrajgir points a gun at Krishna and tells her that he is firing,and breaking up with her,due to having got his revenge on Kaavya making the secret recording.
Struggleing to deal with the break up,Krishna discovers the next day the she is in fact pregnant.Decideing to tell Siddharth about the pregnancy,Dhanrajgir tells Kaavya that he is happy to hear about the news,and agrees to a meeting so that they can sort out their disagreements.
Meeting her love again with arms wide open,Dhanrajgir decides to give Krishna a warm welcome back by having a gang of his interrupt the meeting,and kidnap Kaavya.
Waking up in a desert town,Krishna discovers that Siddharth's gang have performed surgery on her which has killed her child and has also made it that she can never conceive again.Furious over how Dhanrajgir has tried to destroy her life,Krishna decides that she will tear Siddharth's beloved company apart,by becoming the city's most powerful prostitute.
View on the film:
Opening with an intriguing investigating scene,the screenplay by Vikram Bhatt and Rohit Malhotra initially appears to be offering a tantalising mix of murky Neo-Noir lone investigating and taboo-breaking,sensual focused Erotica.
Tragicly,from the moment that Krishna accepts Siddharth's offer,Bhatt and Malhotra use the phone call as a starting pistol to take the film completely off the tracks by making the unfolding plot and characters unbelievably stupid.
Running for just under 2 and a half hours,Bhatt and Malhotra completely push the opportunity to show Krishna slowly transform into a deadly Femme Fatale to the side,to instead have her go round a continuous,illogical circle of completely forgetting the murky details that she has secretly caught of Siddharth's,to instead act as if he is her high school sweetheart!.
While this seems to be designed as a device to "shock" the viewer every time Siddharth turns on her,the only problem of the "shock" is that Siddharth openly turns on Krishna from the very first scene they share,which leads their incredibly badly feeling cheap,tacky and fake for the whole of the running time.
Showing a stylish eye early on in the movie with a good use of spilt- screen,and also being backed by Amar Mohile terrific techno score, (easily the films best feature) director Vivek Agnihotri sadly takes the same route in his directing that Bhatt and Malhotra take with the script.
Offering the viewer to see the exciting,Neo-Noir underbelly of the city,as Krishna starts her rise to the top of being the city's most powerful prostitute,Agnihotri makes Krishna's journey to the top one that is shockingly short,with Krishna being shown talking to a prostitute for 5 minutes,to in the next scene being one of the city's main power players,despite being shown to have not even done a days "work" to her rise to the top!.
Leaving behind the underbelly of the city section of the movie at such a quick pace,which offered the chance to show Krishna go from a dizzy college girl type into an avenging,icy Film Noir dame,Agnirhotri makes the Erotic element of the film one that is completely empty of any sensual atmosphere.For the bedroom scenes between Krishna and Siddharth,Agnihotri decides to shoot in slow- mo,which leads to the scenes being unintentional hilarious,as both actors are shown slowly pulling snarling faces,and Krishna shatters any paternal that was offered in the movie as she is shown shattering a wine bottle as she reaches her "peak" for no logical reason at all.
The plot:
Celebrating with a fellow reporter over having secretly recorded a meeting between a government minister and a businessman,investigating reporter Kaavya Krishna suddenly gets a phone call from the co-owner of the company:Siddharth Dhanrajgir.Telling her that he has perfectly planted a fall guy to take the hit for the company,Siddharth tells Krishna the he is so impressed with her investigating skills that he would like to offer her a high-ranking job at the company.
Accepting Dhanrajgir's offer,Kaavya wraps up all of her journalist connections and sets off for the business world.Being taken by Siddharth's charms,Krishna and Dhanrajgir start to become much more then business partners as their relationship begins to get steamy.
Heading to the office one day,Krishna is shocked to discover that her key card has been made invalid.Going to Siddharth to find out what is happening to the companies computer system,Kaavya is given the shock of her life when Dhanrajgir points a gun at Krishna and tells her that he is firing,and breaking up with her,due to having got his revenge on Kaavya making the secret recording.
Struggleing to deal with the break up,Krishna discovers the next day the she is in fact pregnant.Decideing to tell Siddharth about the pregnancy,Dhanrajgir tells Kaavya that he is happy to hear about the news,and agrees to a meeting so that they can sort out their disagreements.
Meeting her love again with arms wide open,Dhanrajgir decides to give Krishna a warm welcome back by having a gang of his interrupt the meeting,and kidnap Kaavya.
Waking up in a desert town,Krishna discovers that Siddharth's gang have performed surgery on her which has killed her child and has also made it that she can never conceive again.Furious over how Dhanrajgir has tried to destroy her life,Krishna decides that she will tear Siddharth's beloved company apart,by becoming the city's most powerful prostitute.
View on the film:
Opening with an intriguing investigating scene,the screenplay by Vikram Bhatt and Rohit Malhotra initially appears to be offering a tantalising mix of murky Neo-Noir lone investigating and taboo-breaking,sensual focused Erotica.
Tragicly,from the moment that Krishna accepts Siddharth's offer,Bhatt and Malhotra use the phone call as a starting pistol to take the film completely off the tracks by making the unfolding plot and characters unbelievably stupid.
Running for just under 2 and a half hours,Bhatt and Malhotra completely push the opportunity to show Krishna slowly transform into a deadly Femme Fatale to the side,to instead have her go round a continuous,illogical circle of completely forgetting the murky details that she has secretly caught of Siddharth's,to instead act as if he is her high school sweetheart!.
While this seems to be designed as a device to "shock" the viewer every time Siddharth turns on her,the only problem of the "shock" is that Siddharth openly turns on Krishna from the very first scene they share,which leads their incredibly badly feeling cheap,tacky and fake for the whole of the running time.
Showing a stylish eye early on in the movie with a good use of spilt- screen,and also being backed by Amar Mohile terrific techno score, (easily the films best feature) director Vivek Agnihotri sadly takes the same route in his directing that Bhatt and Malhotra take with the script.
Offering the viewer to see the exciting,Neo-Noir underbelly of the city,as Krishna starts her rise to the top of being the city's most powerful prostitute,Agnihotri makes Krishna's journey to the top one that is shockingly short,with Krishna being shown talking to a prostitute for 5 minutes,to in the next scene being one of the city's main power players,despite being shown to have not even done a days "work" to her rise to the top!.
Leaving behind the underbelly of the city section of the movie at such a quick pace,which offered the chance to show Krishna go from a dizzy college girl type into an avenging,icy Film Noir dame,Agnirhotri makes the Erotic element of the film one that is completely empty of any sensual atmosphere.For the bedroom scenes between Krishna and Siddharth,Agnihotri decides to shoot in slow- mo,which leads to the scenes being unintentional hilarious,as both actors are shown slowly pulling snarling faces,and Krishna shatters any paternal that was offered in the movie as she is shown shattering a wine bottle as she reaches her "peak" for no logical reason at all.