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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

Trivia: * Irfan Khan is the same titular 'The Warrior' from Asif Kapadia's epic English movie (which I thought was very slow). * M M Kreem insists on proper poets to pen lyrics for his songs, else he doesn't compose music. (Never expect a 'David Dhawan' song from him). * This movie is a remake of Laura (1944)

Just ain't the movie is good! It is so well written and on that so Sir Irfan awesomely acted upon it! STANDING OVATION - to the dialogues, script, acting, and it's songs as well !

I thought this was a nice, fresh movie to ring in 2005. Irfaan Khan acted brilliantly. He played his role of a depressed cop who has no desire to live very convincingly. The actress, however, was quite lame. She is portrayed as drop-dead gorgeous, heavenly, and very innocent. I thought she was the complete opposite--she seemed kind of ugly and quite worldly. Nevertheless, the story and characters are quite interesting. Pooja Bhatt always has a thing for creating extremely mysterious characters that strike the audience's curiosity as they do in Rog. The actress's friend, boyfriend, etc. all have interesting personalities. The very idea of falling in love with a dead person is indeed very haunting, and it is disturbing to think of love as a disease as the tag line suggests. There are some really nice scenes and dialogs. Songs are excellent, especially Guzar Na Jaaye.

Song/music is nice khoobsurat hai woh itna ki saha nahi jata (udit Narayan rocks), irfan khan good actor.

The only thought I had in my mind after watching Rog was why Irrfan did this movie. Rog is so bad that even Irrfan Khan's acting looks average. It's quite evident that most of the supporting cast, including the lead actress, are not full-time actors. The dubbing of the lead actress is simply pathetic. Other actors didn't even require dubbing artists to ruin the act, they did it themselves. If you can turn a blind eye to all that is bad in this movie, then you may enjoy the music, which was surprisingly much better. Overall, it's just a forgettable pseudo-erotic thriller, like many others made during the 2000s. Just go watch Laura, the 1944 film starring Gene Tierney.