Red Rose

One of the better movies of The SuperStar. Excellent performance by the great star of the Hindi films. He is any day better than Amitabh Bachchan but less publicized. He has done the role of an anti hero. In fact he has excelled in the performance. The music by R D Burman is haunting. Kishore Kumar has given voice to two numbers which are very good. These are remembered after nearly 27 years. It is a must see for all good movie lovers. They will start liking the SuperStar. Today's generation have forgotten the greats of yesteryear's'. RAJESH KHANNA is one who can never be written off.In Red Rose the climax brings out the best in him. The character of Poonam Dhillon has been played well by her.

Clearly the movie is well ahead of it's times, let's not have any doubts about that.This one must have surpassed the majority's taste & intellect when it first got released , with people walking out and thinking, crazy stuff , why on earth will anyone bury bodies in the backyard and watch 'snuff' movies for pleasure.wonder how many people have related this movie to the recent gory escapades involving the famous 'pander-kohli' case near Delhi,where children were raped ,killed and dumped in the backyard. Reality in 2007 , that got scripted in 1980, that's what I call a classic, ahead of it's times. RK is good as he plays the sadistic murderer, PD is very very good in this movie(her 5th here). She's quiet fresh and plays her role to cudos.people would go for the climax of the film, but the anticlimax(oh yes , there's one & the movie's true highlight) is what excited me, and that was somewhere after the middle, it was that dark room with the projecter camera beaming a 35 mm snuff film with it's two grim audiences, who get startingly discovered by PD. This was some chilling scene...brrr.

Good story line, some directorial hiccups of course, but on the whole bhaarti raaja gets the pulitzer from me :-)

The Film Red Rose contains nothing except to an extraordinary characterization of a completely negative mentally disturbed character. To characterize this character, Rajesh Khanna has been able to show his infinite range of acting calibre owing to the particular reason that he characterized this totally negative tone character without any help of make-up or light effect and any kind of artificial technique, except to his classic facial expression. And this makes him an unparalleled classic actor of Indian cinema, who can not be compared with any body. Being the First super star of the nation with historic world famous romantic image, it is an unique example for the Indian film world that up-to what extent any actor can reach with sheer dedication to be able to break shackle of his own image. The last scene of this film where the character played by Mr.Khanna became abnormal mentally and was behind the bar, was an landmark example of facial expression for any actor.

Rajesh Khanna played a psychopath in this murder mystery and thriller classic film. Due to its unorthodox story-line and since it was made in 1980, it was very ahead of its time for Hindi Film Audiences. The film bombed at the box office but got critical acclaims for the story-line and Khanna's strong attention holding performance.Lot of political parties back in 1980 protested that the film be banned but amid protests the film was released but audience did not flock to theatres. Subsequently look at English film like Joker (2019) which became succcesful despite it having similar storyline.Redrose has been remade in Russian and Japanese languages.

Rajesh Khanna has done films of all genres and people used to go with their families to go to theater to watch his films. But for this film people feared to go out with family and this affected its box office collections.People did not want to see their hero doing wrong things. Its a must match for people who are fan of films from phsycological thriller or adventure or mystery genre. A must watch for both Rajesh Khanna fans and his detractors. Kamal hassan won many awards for the same role in Tamil, but Khanna was not even nominated in any award function for best actor, in-spite of Khanna having given splendid performance.

It astounds me that a total of 22 people with dubious taste have given this film 9.4 stars on an average. Assuming that these are not simply the film's crew, I suppose that must have been the total viewership from its creation in 1980 to date. It certainly does NOT deserve more. Rajesh Khanna by this time must have been seeing the end of his tunnel. Amitabh Bacchhan had already taken over the reins of stardom from Khanna and co., so the offers pipeline must have been thin. And it shows. This is old India's attempt at a spooky thriller, but it's simply spooky, for all the wrong reasons. Utterly forgettable fare (if anyone does ever come to read this) and better left to its own mire.