Fever
Good thrillers in Bollywood are rare to come by and there have been occasions when a film has failed to make an impact because of amateurish treatment despite a promising plot and’Fever’ is exactly it.
A man(Rajeev Khandelwal) wakes up in a Swiss hospital following an accident and seems to remember nothing about himself apart from the fact that his name is Armin Salem, he is from Paris and that he has committed some terrible crime. To further complicate things, he keeps running into a mysterious woman Kaavya(Gauahar Khan), who seems to know more about him than she is letting on.
Fever
Even as Armin starts to unravel the mystery about his identity, he is hit by another sucker punch when Rhea(Gemma Atkinson), a girl he met on a bus, insists that he is a writer named Karan and not a contract killer as his memories seem to suggest. Thrown in the mix is a murder mystery and lots of clues which seem to point at different directions. Who is Armin Salem? Is he a contract killer, who has fallen in love with his latest contract or is he Karan, a writer with a rocky marriage?
Fever
Rajeev, who had impressed everyone in Aamir, seems to be having his Samrat And Company hangover still, while Gauahar puts in an earnest effort. Rhea and Bond girl Caterina Murino provide some’oomph’ factor, which results in distracting you from the plot at hand.
Fever
As far as the plot goes, Fever has a promising premise and features eye-catching locales. However, where the film falters is with the amateurish treatment, songs with lyrics like’she is so hot, just like tequila shot’ and some bad performances. The film has elements of The Bourne Identity and Shutter Island, but not the slickness or the crisp treatment that the two films had in spades.
Fever