If you love the nostalgic
serenading romance of yesteryear's superstar Kaka aka Rajesh Khanna on screen or not, this one would
be quite a surprise treat for you. Abstained from his popular romantic or
melodramatic image, here he played unusual and abnormal role of his career as a
misogynist man who loves to spare bed with his young dames and than murdering his
preys. The film is well made psychological noir by writer, director Bharathi
Raaja and it is remake of Tamil film ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ made by the same
director starring Kamal Hassan and Sridevi. Raja has almost treated the film
with suspense and thrill. The camera angles, mise en scenes, montages, cutting
and editing reminds you Master Hitchcock and the use of fluorescent colors and jarring
background score reminds you Argento films.
No other Hindi film as far as my
cinema experience is concerned use the brassiere sans woman in the film like
this film; it bears Indian censor board’s A certificate. The audience rejected
the film at the box office being unhappy to see their idol star in such
unsentimental act devoid of his trademark style romantic persona. Though I must
say the film is bold and quite a way ahead of its time and undoubtedly Khanna
gave one of his restrained act of his career; those who’ve seen both Tamil and Hindi
versions praised Khanna’s act better than young Kamal. However Raja didn’t
resist temptation to use Khanna’s two musical romantic tracks to give film
quite relaxation from tension. The role of Sridevi is played here by Poonam
Dhillon supported by actors like Om Shivpuri, Satyendra Kappu, Aruna Irani and
Roopesh Kumar.
Ratings-7/10
4 comments:
And it was also remade in Japanese.
Really? Surprising :)
It was even remade in Russian. Sigappu Rojakkal was remade in Japanese as Red Roses (1979) (as Luv stated), in Hindi as Red Rose (1980) (which your post is about), in Russian as Krasnyye Rozy (1980), and in Telugu as Erra Gulabilu (1979), Definitely an achievement.
Really?!! Cuz all I see are Indian movie blogs & an UNCITED Wikipedia post telling us that there was a remake in Japanese & russian. Funny stuff, considering I searched for these movies in the internet, & there seems to be NO trace of any existence ever of these foreign remakes! If you do find any trace of these movies, please do provide a link, kind folks!
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