Subhash K Jha revisits Raqeeb and we hear from star Tanushree Dutta as they look back at the 2007 film.

Raqeeb is so busy trying to shock us with its high-voltage wantonness, it forgets to pause for refuelling its creative motors. The narrative moves at a breakneck speed, creating a highly charged sexually-defiant version of Abbas-Mustan’s Humraaz about the benevolent husband, the adulterous wife, and her amoral lover. Jimmy Shergil sports theatrical rhetorics, and flowing henna-coloured hair that really doesn’t suit him.

There are three heroes, one heroine, two item songs, three romantic songs, three attempted murders, and a couple of funerals. There’s also a rather vulgar item song by starlet Sherlyn Chopra.

The film’s only main female lead, Tanushree Dutta, impresses the naïve millionaire Rahul Khanna, claiming to enjoy Shakespeare. Sure, we believe you. As much as we believe in the fast-paced film’s perverse quadrangle,...