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Fardeen Khan | ... |
Aditya 'Adit' Soman
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Esha Deol | ... |
Geeta A. Menon
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Ashwini A. Soman
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Mukesh Bhatt |
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Zakir Hussain | ... |
Sameer Naghani
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Dancer /
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Upendra Limaye | ... |
Inspector Bhaskar Reddy
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Pramodini | ... |
S.I. Malti Pandey
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Ritwik |
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Pubali Sanyal | ... |
Gayetri
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Raghvendra Sharda | ... |
Anjun Menon
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Wealthy executive Aditya Soman, married to Ashwini for several years, and the parent of Akhil, has an affair with his Secretary, Geeta Menon. Both get intimate after he assures her that he will divorce his wife, and marry her. When she gets pregnant, he tells her to abort the child as he has changed his mind about the divorce. Angered, Geeta attacks him, a scuffle ensues, and in the end she gets killed. He buries her body, and returns home to carry on as usual. But not for long, for soon not only will he and his family's lives will be turned upside when the spirit of Geeta returns to exact vengeance, they will also be the subject of an investigation by the Crime Branch. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Post RGV Sholay, I dreaded to watch another Film Factory product. With expectations pined below zero, I begun watching the movie.
Should the ghosts and spirits movie necessarily scary? RGV seems to have been inspired by Shaun Of The Dead which was a horror flick loaded with comedy.
Fardeen Khan's role is akin to Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya only more sleazy husband.
Isha Koppikar doesn't have much scope as a doting housewife and obviously running on older version when it comes to matters behind the closed doors. Seriously if you put the jigsaw pieces together it reveals what RGV is fetish about!
Eesha Deol gets the meaty pie and this time she dons the Urmila's role in Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya. Only more freer, vengeful and spirited.... literally and figuratively.
Zakir Hussain (a RGV regular) gets it wrong completely this time he irritates. And so does Kota Srinivas Rao, both the roles should have been chopped completely.
Upendra Limaye role should have been given more depth. And her killer-looks assistant was hilarious.
Background score adds to the eerie atmosphere.
The RGV style of camera-work is predominant here. Thankfully not struck (permanently at least!) to heroine's back as in his earlier works. Seriously is the cinematographer partner in crime too?
Last but not the least, stop the close-up camera work. We have had enough!
Darling does invoke good laughs thanks to the efforts by the lead actors. Though the end is contrived.