Khandelwal’s character is recovering in hospital after a car accident and suffering from memory loss.

Rajeev Khandelwal and Gauhar Khan in Fever. Youtube screen grab.

All he recalls is that his name is Armin, he’s from Paris and that a woman called Rhea is important to his life story. With flashes of memories of a murdered woman and the recurring appearance of another woman who introduces herself as ‘Kavya’ (Gauhar Khan), Armin begins to piece together his past.

Turns out Armin (if that’s his real name) plays a contract killer with a penchant for scarves and costumes. He’s a bit Bond-like – smooth with the ladies, quick with the gun. Except he’s a hired hand, a contract killer, an assassin. This is explained to us many times, in case it was not clear the first (or second) time.

Kavya’s role remains hazy, but we do eventually find out why she’s lurking around Armin. At the risk of giving away too much of the plot, suffice to say there’s a writer and there’s confusion between fact and fiction.

Murino’s presence is so limited she hardly makes an impact while Atkinson is surprisingly stilted and awkward. Khandelwal spends most of the film posturing and being pensive, speaking with painfully long pauses and engaging in numerous scenes of seduction where the women look like they are desperately waiting for the director to call ‘cut’. Khan tries her best and shows some sparkle, not least because of a distracting diamante ‘Monroe’ (beauty mark) above her lip.

In short don’t waste your time and money to watch Fever