'Red Swastik', the latest direction of controversial Indian filmmaker Vinod Pande is now being shown at Lido cinema Colombo. Director and producer, Pande is also well known in directions like Sins (2005), Sach (1989) and Star (1982) and his latest psycho-thriller revolves around an extremely devious serial killer who goes about her mission with a sense of social rectitude.

Experienced film and television maker Vinod Pande has created controversy with his earlier film 'Sins', a story about a priest. Pande is a veteran journalist, a writer and novelist who has excelled both in print and electronic media.

In a bedroom of a plush apartment in Mumbai, a middle-aged corporate honcho is brutally done to death by a sexy siren. The man had apparently engaged this lady of pleasures when his wife was away in Kolkatta on a business trip.

The police is sent into a tizzy because the killer had painted a swastik on the forehead of the victim in his own blood which indicated that it was the act of a serial killer who had left identical signs in several similar retributory executions in Delhi and few other towns. Soon, more such killings are discovered in Mumbai too.

As the hot chase ensues, what emerges is not the simple case of a uni-dimensional psychopath killing on whims, but of a very complex split personality of a psychotically bewildered being.

The suspense remains continually chilling because of the compelling sense of one up-man ship that she feels vis-à-vis to a lovable and progressive editor of a women's magazine from whom she almost ceaselessly seeks approbation for her maniacal deeds which she considers acts of justifiable retribution. Thus almost defiantly she cautions the editor in advance, every time she makes her move on the prey.

The sad revelation in finality is not that of an abhorrent monster but of a vulnerable and beautiful human being who used her inescapable sexuality merely as a weaponry for social correctitude. Red Swastik stars Menaka Chopra, Deepraz, Deepshika, Harsh Chhaya, Rishi Khurana and Sanjay Swaraj on the stellar cast.

The film is imported to Sri Lanka by Janitha Marasinghe of Janitha Films.