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The Worst Film Ever
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Best movie ever!
Griff Lees
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
sahilpatel-25289
I am a big fan of Hollywood movies especially Mystery and thriller. After watching this movie, I had never expected that this movie would be too good. Plot and mystery in the movie was just like Thriller/Mystery Hollywood movie. First half wasn't so good but still it keep us in confusion about the story. Second half was like you can only expect in some Hollywood Movie. Rajeev Khandelwal acted perfectly and nailed his character in this movie. I don't want to say too much about movie but it is sure if you'll watch movie you'll be in confused about the story. If you love movies like - "The Shutter Island", "Inception" , then you will love it.
binducherungath
Fever, a thriller by Rajeev Jhaveri, sticks to its punch line 'Be Suspensed'. The film begins with a few disclaimers in the beginning. One disclaimer explains the title i.e. Fever is an expression of inner rage. Another disclaimer explains the overall theme of the film i.e. the only animals hurt during the making of the film is frail egos. One more disclaimer is : Life is a combination of Facts and Fiction, which one starts when and which one ends when, it is difficult to make out. The film fever will leave you with the same feeling. Throughout the film, one can't figure out when the fiction and facts get interspersed. Even the last scene would leave you in doubt. But probably, the film maker's intention was the same to leave the audience – 'Be suspensed' and 'Remain in Suspense'. The film begins with Rajeev Khandelwal stranded on road, and sitting there absolutely shattered. He narrates his past with a girl. According to him, his ordeal started 15 days back, when he met with an accident. He was thrown out of the vehicle by Gauhar Khan. (I would come back to reveal the characters' names played by Rajeev and Gauhar later in this review). Rajeev finds himself in a hospital, and realizes that he is suffering from memory loss. He is just able to recall that his name is Armin Salem and he is from Paris. From Dr. David Roy (Victor Banerjee), who was treating him, he learnt that Armin was taking the name of Rhea in his unconscious stage. Background song also tries to explain the journey of Rajeev's character as a contract killer. Frames move to the scenes after the accident and his memory loss. In the hospital, he gets disturbed to see a girl Gauhar Khan, fights hard to remember that how he knows her, but fails to recall. After getting discharged from the hospital, he finds Gauhar staying nearby to his accommodation. Her sight itself disturbs him. Gauhar introduces her as Kaavya Choudhary. Armin often gets haunted with the sight of his murdering a girl. But he is unable to figure out who the girl was and why he ended up killing her. Armin is not sure of his identity. Sometimes he feels he is Karan. He is also shown as a writer.The film does move further but leaving the audience in a struggling mode to figure out and differentiate facts and fiction. Rajeev's character is Armin or Karan? What exactly Rajeev does – writing or contract killing? What is Gauhar's relationship with Rajeev? Who are Rhea Wagnor (Gemma Atkinson, British TV Star) and Irina Caro (Caterina Murino, former James Bond Girl) in the films? How Rajeev's character is linked to these two characters in the film? Armin's frustrations of not knowing self, fighting hard to remember one's own identity is indeed very well projected by Rajiv. Gauhar could also add lot of mystery to her character, which was required by the plot. She justifies the role. Both Rajiv and Gauhar are good actors and look good on screen, but somewhere, this film is not able to bring out the best from these two actors.The film does project the relationship going wrong. When love becomes obsession, love dies. It is important to give space in one's relationship. The film is shot in beautiful Switzerland. But I am still wondering why this film is titled as 'Fever'. As the disclaimer defined it as an expression of inner rage, the film does have characters' inner rage coming out. Somehow, this film does not appeal.Fever sticks to its punch line 'Be Suspensed' and asks you to 'Remain in Suspense'. The end leaves you disillusioned figuring out and distinguish between facts and fiction.
divyam-39974
A brilliant film with an unusual story line and screenplay. One has to be attentive to get into the story. Not a usual Hindi film. First half is nail biting and you will never be able to guess what is going to happen next. All actors are very good, the background is outstanding and visuals that will stay with you for a long time. The dialogues are smart and effectively used. We all talk about Hindi films to different.. Here is a different movie but it will demand your attention. Like other films your cannot be on the phone and watch.. watch it carefully and you will fall in love with the film. I would recommend everyone to watch the movie.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
I am so ashamed I am writing this review. Curiosity killed me. Or, rather, curiosity killed my 150 rupees. I was curious about what Bond girl Caterina Murino (Solange in 2006's Casino Royale) was doing in a Bollywood film. That was why I went to see Fever. Also, the film looked sleek, what with all those gorgeous Swiss locales and all. I was deceived quite easily. I ended up sleeping through a nice part of the film before the interval. The film hardly made any sense in the first 30 minutes. This, together with the air conditioning in the multiplex, made me sleep. A loud noise just before the interval woke me up. I realised it was a very badly composed background score. For once it is hard to believe that the background score has been composed by Ranjit Barot! But that is how bad Fever is. Except those Swiss locales and some beautiful photography nothing else is good in Fever. But why am I praising the cinematography? The camera-work is good, but, in the end, everything is just like some beautiful picture postcard from Europe. In fact, when a range of logos of European travel firms and Swiss government organisations is displayed right after the censor board certificate and the no smoking ad, you know what is in store: A Bollywood-style promo of Swiss tourism. Caterina Murino has a you-blink-and-you-miss-her role, but the most heartbreaking thing about Fever is Victor Banerjee's role. The veteran actor has only a short and absolutely unimportant cameo. It looked like they needed just a star or a big-name actor to do that cameo➖hence, Victor Banerjee. And better to say nothing about Rajeev Khandelwal, Gauhar Khan, Gemma Atkinson, and debutante Ankita Makwana. I read somewhere that Gemma Atkinson is a big star of British television. What kind of fever compelled her to act in this Fever? Seriously, Fever is just a 127-minute-long, made-by-Bollywood commercial for Swiss tourism featuring six big and small celebrities from India and abroad. I have given Fever 2 stars out of 10. One star is for the guts of the makers of this film who believed that they could get away with making such a joke of a film. The second star is for making me fall asleep, for the first time in my life, in a cinema hall! Yet, Fever is still far better than another film I saw on this fiction/reality theme: the Arjun Rampal-Jacqueline Fernandez-Ranbir Kapoor-starrer, Roy. I could still sit - even sleep - through Fever. In Roy, I just walked out in the interval and did not return for the rest of the film➖the film was so unbearable!
