Tuesday, 25 June 2013

B FOR BOLLYWOOD #10

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RELEASE DATE:
20th May,2011
 
GENRE:
Psychological thriller

PLOT:
The film basically revolves around a room, which is supposedly haunted by a student who committed suicide in the room years ago. Abhimanyu (Rajjvir Arora),a student starts living in the room and is supported by Professor Anirudh (Nishikant Kamat) who is a staunch believer that paranormal activity doesn't exists in this world.The rational-minded Abhimanyu starts experiencing the unusual and soon starts seeing the boy who committed suicide. Caught in the web now, he ignores all this as halucinations. But do paranormal activities exist? Well, see the movie to find out.

TEAM AND PERFORMANCE:
The Director of the film is Prawaal Raman,the director of Gayab(2004) which was a dud at boxoffice and Darna Zaroori Hain(2006) which was again a horror movie.He does better here than those two. Rajjvir Arora is surely the right choice for the role and Imaad Shah though has nothing more to do than few scenes leaves an impression. He's given the music too. Satish Kaushik has done his part well. Nishikant Kamat deserves a round of applause here. Nicely executed climax by him will surely give shivers to all. He is inarguably the pick of the lot.

MUSIC AND PROMOTIONS:
The music is composed by Imaad Shah(son of Nasseeruddin Shah and an actor in 404) and sung too. The music is not different, but not same too. Fits in the genre. But should have been better. Promotions of the film were average with posters ranging from the one above and some different ones which surely helped to some extent.Overall,its average

COLLECTIONS:
The movie fared too poorly at the boxoffice.No official reports are available regarding the collection,though only the occupancy is listed which was around 5%-10%

USP:
Nishikant Kamat  and the plot,clearly this deadly combination is worth watching.

FLAWS/WHY IT DIDNT WORK:
The biggest flaw is in us. We seldom watch movies which have no superstars. But aren't superstars created this way? Coming back to the movie, it slows down its pace sometimes and No songs used in the movie although the album was officially released.

WHY SHOULD YOU SEE IT:
Whether you believe the paranormal or not, watch it to support your stance. The movie gives a sort of illusion to what you support, the paranormal or otherwise. I can guarantee you, you wont change your stance regarding it, but do watch it once.

RATING:
4/5

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