Father-Daughter
Bhatt have embarked on a mission to ensure Film-Noir is a set genre for Bollywood audience.
Jism, Murder and a few other movies of theirs are adaptations of Hollywood movies from years ago.
Rog is one of the better movies they have produced, and most of it's credit goes to a brilliant performance by
Irfan Khan. I am not exaggerating when I say he is the worthy successor to
Naseeruddin Shah in the ease with which he slips into any role he portrays.
This movie follows the murder investigation of a beautiful model, Maya Solomon, by 'super-cop' Inspector Uday Rathore (
Khan) who suffers from mild-insomnia. While conducting the investigation and piecing together the past of the model, the cop starts falling in love with the image of the dead woman; all the while trying to find her killer.
With a cast of a few extras (including a loud 'accented' confused-desi), none of the other performances are worth note. Yet, the movie itself is well made (a proper script, whoa!) with a beautiful score (
M.M Kreem) and a brilliant lead performance. The twists (save one) are a little predictable, but the presentation is a revelation for a low-budget Indian movie. Kudos to the director
Himanshu Brahmbhatt for a job well done (he is
Mahesh Bhatt's AD from the
Gumrah &
Sadak).
If nothing, the movie is worth for the
Irfan Khan alone. I have set myself up to watch any movie this man stars in. Oh, and the music is awesome.
My Rating ---> 2.5 of 5
