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Extinct Version Of 'Basic Instinct'

Once upon a time he was the sleek specialist. But now, Punkaj Parasher's take on Paul Verhoeven's box-office hit "Basic Instinct" is so deplorably dull, you wonder why he ever bothered to get into it.

This is basically an extinct version of "Basic Instinct". Or, we could say, this is "Basic Instinct" without Michael Douglas or Sharon Stone.

Yes, we do get Manoj Bajpai and Isha Koppiker. Isha even does Stone's infamous interrogation by the cops sequence. But Isha does…