Dangerous review: Bipasha Basu is disappointing in this dull and predictable suspense drama

Actress Bipasha Basu has returned to the screen after a five-year sabbatical with the web-series Dangerous on the OTT platform MX Player.

This time she joins hands with husband Karan Singh Grover. However, even their chemistry cannot save this dull and boring suspense drama.

Initially planned as a film, Dangerous was broken up into seven episodes and released as a web-series. 

London-based millionaire Aditya Dhanraj's wife Divya (Sonali Raut) goes missing and Neha (Bipasha Basu), a sleuth, is sent to investigate the case. Neha and Aditya had a past and as she starts to investigate the case their feelings for each other resurface and she finds herself struggling between her suppressed emotions for her former boyfriend and her duty as a police officer.

Vikram Bhatt's screenplay is full of conventions and has nothing new to offer. You can spot all the twists the web-series has to offer from a mile away. Each scene plays out exactly how you have imagined, with very little substance.

Even the dialogues, half of them in English, feel like they were written in a hurry. One gets the sense the filmmaker just used the first draft of the screenplay, with very little or no rewriting at all.

For a thriller to live an impact on the audience. it is imperative to have an engaging screenplay, but the series fails on that front.

Bhushan Patel's unimaginative direction adds to the viewer's misery. When the script doesn't offer much, you expect the director to do something to at least make the series visually appealing. But Patel has shot the series in a very simplistic manner. In fact, some of the conversation scenes are shot and edited like a television soap.

When a show fails to make an impact on both fronts, script and direction, there is precious little the artistes can do to salvage it. Real-life couple Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover's characters are uni-dimensional and so is their acting. Making a comeback to acting after five years, Basu's performance is flat, as if she were forced to act against her wish.

Grover and Basu's chemistry was one of the selling points for Dangerous, but the script doesn't allow them to show it. The supporting cast, including Sonali Raut, Natasha Suri and Suyyash Rai, is completely wasted. Rai does get a few moments to show his acting chops but that's about it.

Overall, Dangerous is a lazy attempt at filmmaking and one of those many sub-par projects which are getting dumped on streaming platforms every month.

Dangerous is being streamed on MX Player.