Stress. Prozac. Claustrophobia. Three main ingredients that comprise the real time Indian horror flick FIRED, from director Sajit Warrier. Oh, and there’s a whole damn river of blood in this bastard, as you can see in a new red band trailer we have for you below!
Starring Rahul Bose and Dinesh Lamba, FIRED goes a little like this:
At the H.W.L.S HEAD OFFICE in LONDON, the egotistical maniac JOY AHLUWALIA the CEO of the company, decides to repair his scandal-ridden work record and prove to himself and his partners that he can, indeed, care for his family and be an able leader in an economic meltdown that effects everyone. He is responsible of firing almost half the employees in London and implement major cut-downs. In the turmoil that follows he decides to sack the manager RUBY, a 29-year-old seductress with whom he has been having an affair that affects his personal as well as his professional life. After a day of ultimate stress Joy finally decides to finish off all his paperwork and stand proud in front of his partners for a board meeting that will definitely change his life.
Almost after 5 hours of the firing incident, the final two hours in the office is a stressful event. The real time depiction of the horrific time spent by JOY at the empty office filled with the curse of people who have been recently fired is the crux of the film FIRED.
It’s a supernatural influence that keeps JOY haunted in his own empty office, and also the twin demons of PROZAC and insecurity that turn a happy go lucky man into a stark-raving suicidal guy. In a matter of couple of hours the strong man Joy turns into a pleading mad guy seeing ghosts of his lover and her kid at every nook and corner. Everything around in the seemingly nondescript office become the targets of his paranoia, fed by the crazy hallucinatory effects of his anti depressant pills.
FIRED is a real time depiction of the last two hours in the life of a CEO who has recently fired almost half his employees, set in an empty office space, which also acts as a major character, enhancing the suspense of the film.
Whew…that’s quite a pipe load. I have to sat I am pretty intrigued by the thought of a highly contained, real-time horror scenario going down in one inescapable location. The kind of shite true nightmares are made, it would seem!
Naseer Abdullah, Paul Clerkin, Jolyon Dixon, Sasha Desouza-Willock, Nickul Hathi, Yusuf Hussein, Vanessa Lam Paul Lavers, Julie Leonard, and Dennis Santucci round out the supporting cast.
FIRED is the feature length debut for director Sajit Warrier, who wrote the script alongside Rohit Gahlowt, Shripal Morakhia and Kenny Basumatary.
The flick premiered two weeks ago in its native country.