1920 (2008)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Vikram Bhatt

Writers:

Vikram Bhatt (screenplay)
Dheeraj Rattan (screenplay)

Release Date:

12 September 2008 (India)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

A Love Made in Heaven...A Revenge Born in Hell...

Cast

Anjori Alagh	...	Gayatri Devi
Bob Brahmbhatt
Rajneesh Duggal	...	Arjun Singh Rathod
Amin Hajee
Rakhi Sawant	...	Item Number
Indraneil Sengupta	...	Mohan Kant
Adah Sharma	...	Lisa Singh Rathod
Asha Sharma
Vipin Sharma	...	Servant
Shri Vallabh Vyas	...	Doctor
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Priest

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

India:A

Filming Locations:

Allerton Castle, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Company:

ASA Production & Enterprises

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The movie is set in 1920 in India. However there is a scene in which one can see an electric train going across Victoria terminus, despite the fact that the electric train didn't come to India till 1925.

not bad but rather long & with songs that didn't exactly fit the time

Someone on IMDb recommended this to me, so I gave it a watch, and while I have to say it wasn't bad, fairly well done & all that, it's also rather long and takes quite a while to get to the point. Plus, it takes place in 1920, and the songs performed didn't exactly fit the time & place, being that they were definitely modern...I can sit through the songs in many Indian movies of the 70's & 80's no problem, but these, made me squirm, as in, get ON with it. In other words, there was no fun to them, too serious.

As for the movie, well, it looks great, nice locations and all, and the suspense does build up quite well at times, but then we reach the horror movie cliché point, and while the possessed woman was quite creepy, the rest of the proceedings were fairly routine.

Seems that this huge old house is to be pulled down in favor of building a grand hotel, but there's something IN the house, or, a couple somethings, that aren't exactly in agreement with the new owner's plans. Of course, we have a local priest who just happens to dabble in exorcisms handy too, which is always nice.

This was not bad but it could certainly have been better. I rather like the Indian horror films of old, Ramsay Brothers and such, this one is too "Hollywood" and borrows too freely from American films instead of using more Indian cultural references, so I was rather disappointed with that. I watch Indian films because I enjoy seeing different takes on the horror genre, NOT because I want to see a rehash of American films. 6 out of 10.