First up, at the time of writing this review, the movie is rated 8.4 on imdb, which I find absurd. As has been the case in quite a few movies over the last couple of years, the movie was made with an honest intent to present an interesting story, but was marred by some technical issues. In the case of this movie, it was the narrative and screenplay.
The movie was supposedly a horror comedy. Certainly it was good as far as the comedy part was concerned. The setting was in a small town in India and the people and their humor was well shown. Infact, it would pass well as a thriller as well, since the scenes where the villagers get scared were well filmed. But it is the horror part that kills the movie. The red eyes of the victims, the mechanic sound at the twisting of neck etc. gives a feeling that it might be a sci-fi kind of thriller. But as I got to know that there is actually a supernatural witch and the way events unfold, left me disappointed. It was not all that bad a story, but it was shown with too many loopholes. ( reading the excellent reviews of other users, I do feel perplexed if I missed out on something). Yes, probably the director wanted to leave a cliffhanger for a sequel, but the experience of this movie can't be marred for the that. I was definitely not left curious at the end but was rather only confused.
The witch could have been helped to leave this world of Maya. her story could have been shown as a flashback. More could have been hinted about Shraddha's character, at least she could have been a little less action oriented and a little more spiritually oriented, capable of communicating with the witch instead of just throwing magical powder at her. Blah blah, the list is endless.
The actors have done a fairly good job. especially Rajkumar Rao and his sidekicks Aparshakti and Abhishek Bannerjee. Pankaj Tripathi and Vijay Raaz could have done much more, but didn't get much meat in their roles. Shraddha's character was presented very poorly, adding a lot of confusion to the plot.
Certainly watch it for the comedy, but not for the chills of horror.
The movie was supposedly a horror comedy. Certainly it was good as far as the comedy part was concerned. The setting was in a small town in India and the people and their humor was well shown. Infact, it would pass well as a thriller as well, since the scenes where the villagers get scared were well filmed. But it is the horror part that kills the movie. The red eyes of the victims, the mechanic sound at the twisting of neck etc. gives a feeling that it might be a sci-fi kind of thriller. But as I got to know that there is actually a supernatural witch and the way events unfold, left me disappointed. It was not all that bad a story, but it was shown with too many loopholes. ( reading the excellent reviews of other users, I do feel perplexed if I missed out on something). Yes, probably the director wanted to leave a cliffhanger for a sequel, but the experience of this movie can't be marred for the that. I was definitely not left curious at the end but was rather only confused.
The witch could have been helped to leave this world of Maya. her story could have been shown as a flashback. More could have been hinted about Shraddha's character, at least she could have been a little less action oriented and a little more spiritually oriented, capable of communicating with the witch instead of just throwing magical powder at her. Blah blah, the list is endless.
The actors have done a fairly good job. especially Rajkumar Rao and his sidekicks Aparshakti and Abhishek Bannerjee. Pankaj Tripathi and Vijay Raaz could have done much more, but didn't get much meat in their roles. Shraddha's character was presented very poorly, adding a lot of confusion to the plot.
Certainly watch it for the comedy, but not for the chills of horror.