Whatever can be said of this movie, it has a strong beginning: we see a cemetery in the night, a female corpse, and two men obviously planning to bury her. Suddenly the corpse wakes up, it comes to a fight, and the two men decide to use force and bury the woman anyway, in spite of her cries. The poor thing is buried alive.
Subsequently, we find out how it came that far. Ravi and his close friend Jaggi are in charge of a company owned by Catherine, Ravi's rich wife. Ravi, however, is a womaniser of the worst kind, and completely neglects Catherine, who therefore seeks refuge in the alcohol. One day, it comes to a physical fight between Ravi and Catherine: he hits her, she falls down on a glass table, and appears dead. Afraid of the consequences of this perceived murder, Ravi and Jaggi decide to bury her in secret. Even once they find out that Catherine is still alive, they bury her anyway.
So far so good. But after that, the level drops drastically. We see Catherine crawling out of her grave, and just like she does, we believe that she managed to escape. However, it turns out she is dead already. Once she finds out, she reunites with her body and becomes "evil". She starts haunting the house of Ravi and his new lover, Priya. She might as well have killed off Ravi and Jaggi right away, but apparently she wanted them to suffer a bit first, and so, she starts teasing them. It looks like the creators of this movie couldn't really decide what sort of creature Catherine had become after her death: we know she is a "zinda laash", a living corpse, and we also know she is "evil". She looks like the average zombie and pretty much behaves like one. However, sometimes she is invisible and even manages to find herself inside a locked bathroom. She stumbles like a zombie, but clearly she has the power to movie very quickly from one place to another when she wants to. Although she is still able to speak normally, she prefers to use a ghastly voice. In other words, effects and clichés have completely taken over from the plot.
All in all, a movie that started off like a fairly decent thriller quickly turns into a Z-grade horror flick. Even the quality of the acting seems to suffer from the change. Yet, it should be said, I found this movie a pretty entertaining one anyway. Not exactly from the "so bad it's good" kind, not exactly scary either, but I repeatedly had a good laugh (with many thanks to my favourite character in the movie, inspector Khan), and I can't say I've found it boring even for a moment. The music is fairly good as well.
Subsequently, we find out how it came that far. Ravi and his close friend Jaggi are in charge of a company owned by Catherine, Ravi's rich wife. Ravi, however, is a womaniser of the worst kind, and completely neglects Catherine, who therefore seeks refuge in the alcohol. One day, it comes to a physical fight between Ravi and Catherine: he hits her, she falls down on a glass table, and appears dead. Afraid of the consequences of this perceived murder, Ravi and Jaggi decide to bury her in secret. Even once they find out that Catherine is still alive, they bury her anyway.
So far so good. But after that, the level drops drastically. We see Catherine crawling out of her grave, and just like she does, we believe that she managed to escape. However, it turns out she is dead already. Once she finds out, she reunites with her body and becomes "evil". She starts haunting the house of Ravi and his new lover, Priya. She might as well have killed off Ravi and Jaggi right away, but apparently she wanted them to suffer a bit first, and so, she starts teasing them. It looks like the creators of this movie couldn't really decide what sort of creature Catherine had become after her death: we know she is a "zinda laash", a living corpse, and we also know she is "evil". She looks like the average zombie and pretty much behaves like one. However, sometimes she is invisible and even manages to find herself inside a locked bathroom. She stumbles like a zombie, but clearly she has the power to movie very quickly from one place to another when she wants to. Although she is still able to speak normally, she prefers to use a ghastly voice. In other words, effects and clichés have completely taken over from the plot.
All in all, a movie that started off like a fairly decent thriller quickly turns into a Z-grade horror flick. Even the quality of the acting seems to suffer from the change. Yet, it should be said, I found this movie a pretty entertaining one anyway. Not exactly from the "so bad it's good" kind, not exactly scary either, but I repeatedly had a good laugh (with many thanks to my favourite character in the movie, inspector Khan), and I can't say I've found it boring even for a moment. The music is fairly good as well.
