Red - The Dark Side

There's something about Vikram Bhatt, a kinetic energy that makes him come up with interesting projects one after the other every year. Mind you, it's the manic pace at which he directs that I am pointing towards. The interesting ideas all come from his ever-growing DVD collection. With Red: The Dark Side, looks like he's been watching 21 Grams a lot.

And this is a major gripe with the film. While Bhatt fancies himself to be an auteur, and tries to infuse a 'new' visual language in the film, the fact that this is not his work but someone else's that he is inspired from, jars (th....