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Gunaah
(2002)
Cast: Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Irfan Ashutosh Rana Director: Amol Shetge Music Director: Anand Raaj Anand Synopsis: interesting premise about bad cop goes sadly off the tracks Reviewed by: Faiz Khan |
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The Bombay skyline introduces you a tale of the murky world of police corruption. Hot Babe in bright red dress tempts corrupt A.S.P Pande (Irfan) into her parlour only to find her to be Inspector Prabha (Bipasha Basu) trying to expose her corrupt officer in charge. But nothing comes of it except that it sets the scene for the enmity between the two cops. Our Inspector Prabha has nightmares which keep her up at night and one discovers later that she is the daughter of a prostitute who had murdered one of her mother’s clients (a policeman) when she was young. Growing up to be a policewoman, she seeks to route out police corruption within the system. A businessman is murdered and the only clue is the face of a man caught on the security camera. Tracking him down, she peeks into his bathroom to find him showering. Modesty, after a brief ogle, prompts Prabha to close the door but our suspect Aditya (Dino Morea) escapes. In hot pursuit, Prabha falls off the roof, ready to plunge to her death when our suspect lends her a helping hand and saves her life. Now in custody, our suspect refuses to say a word. Prabha is given the task of making the suspect talk and she decides to don a bright red sexy sari and armed with a pout, she takes him with her to his house where she may prompt him to talk but to no avail. It turns out that the suspect is from a gang of youths out to rid the police of corruption and hence carry out various killings of corrupt individuals. Aditya is also a victim of police injustice as his father, a journalist, was murdered by A.S.P Pande. Pande wants this case so that he can bury all the loose ends from the murder, and Prabha wants to keep it to use it as evidence against Pande. Aditya has by now, fallen for Prabha. Having been suspended, the A.S.P launches a murderous attack on Prabha, shooting her in the process and leaving her for dead. The plot then plods to its bloody finale. Mahesh Bhatt as a story writer has decided that grit and realism takes the form of crude and harsh dialogues, littered with it with near expletives and a plot which really has nothing to do with realism. His vision is further distorted by the director by creating a most undesirable, unbelievable and unpleasant film. Bipasha Basu is
not that impressive in the film, heaving and thumping in equal turns.
In fact, it is Dino Morea who turns in a much better performance which
will surprise many. Irfan is maniacal and Ashutosh Rana makes no realm
impression. Music is bad. This film would possibly be better titled
as Maniac Cop and the director should have stuck to the tale of a
pyschopathic cop rather than trying to give it a moral turn dressed
up as a film against police corruption. Not recommended. |
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