Rating: /5
Cult Movie Challenge 2016 | 45/52 | Bollywood Horror
This film of mine is just an attempt to SCARE you and in no way reflects my belief in the SUPERNATURAL. I also caution PREGNANT women and people with WEAK HEARTS to view it at their own RISK. — Ram Gopal Varma
Vishal Bhatia is looking for an apartment for him and his wife, Swati. The broker reluctantly shows him a cheap duplex — cheap, because the previous resident fell off the building and died.
Vishal meets the apartment owner, Mr. Thakkar, who gives him the full story — that the previous tenant was a woman named Manjeet who committed suicide after killing her son.
Vishal is unbothered by this detail, not believing any superstitions about ghosts. He continues to hide this from Swati, who wouldn’t choose to live there. But as they live there, Swati’s behavior changes and she sees dead people everywhere she goes.
Vishal explains it all away as her stupid dreams or her stupid soaps. Or he tells Swati she is stupid. But one night, he finds the watchman murdered. All signs point to Swati as the killer.
The score and sound effects are hilariously overbearing — think Sam Raimi with a Hindi twist. They even see Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man in theaters. We hear several lines of dialogue from the movie.
Urmila Matondkar, who plays Swati, gives her all. She’s doing well for the material she’s acting in.
If you watch this as a comedy, it’s pretty incredible. I feel bad because that isn’t the intention. I mean, this movie won awards, so I think there’s a lens I don’t have to watch this movie.