EK HASINA THI (India – 2004)
Directed by: Sriram Raghavan
Starring: Urmila Matondkar, Saif Ali Khan

A gothic women’s revenge film, EK HASINA THI, starts like a heavenly romance but ends up in hell. Longtime Ram Gopal Varma actress, Urmila Matondkar, stars as a buttoned down office worker who falls in love with a cute guy who’s just mysterious enough to make her feel all sexy and special. In love for the first time in her life, her icy shell quickly melts and soon she’s a dewy-eyed lovebird, cooing sweet nothings to her rugged stud. Even after she takes the rap for his criminal activities and is sent to prison she still won’t believe that her man did her wrong. But it doesn’t take too long for the rat-infested hell of a woman’s prison to flip her switch. What her boyfriend (played by the hunky Saif Ali Khan) didn’t count on is that his pouting pretty girl has a screw loose and it’ll take more bullets and bodies than he can throw at her to stop her revenge.

With a plot as twisted as Urmila’s damaged mind, and with its pace set on overdrive, EK HASINA THI tears through the projector like a woman scorned: fast, furious, and full of venom. The highlights from every female action movie ever made are stitched together into this insane Frankenbeast of a film, produced by RGV, that comes screaming at you with blood under its nails and a mad, empty gleam in its eyes.