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Phoonk
22 Aug 2008, 2156 hrs IST, Nikhat Kazmi, TNN
Phoonk
(horror)
Cast:
Sudeep, Amruta Khanvikar, Ahsaas
Channa
Direction:
Ram Gopal
Varma
Critics
rating:
FIRST of all, it's hard to
believe a post modern filmmaker like Ram Gopal Varma could actually make a film
that ends up upholding mumbo-jumbo. The rationalist engineer (Sudeep) ends up
chasing shamans and witch doctors to save his possessed daughter (Ahsaas
Channa), even as the doctors fail to cure her of her demons with their
psychological fundas.
The film
ends up as a warning to all you scientific non-believers out there who scoff at
black magic, voodoo and the mysterious lemoo (lemon). The next time you see
bones in your backyard or a crow staring down at you from the overhead tree,
don't take it lightly....Oh,
really!
But he doesn't only get
the premise wrong. The film fails to create a single scare, even though the
camera does slide into strange places, focusing on all the stuffed toys and the
ugly artefacts in the house and the soundtrack gets dizzy with ominous sounds.
Technically speaking, there's
only one `jump' moment, when Sudeep moves but his mirror image doesn't move. The
rest of the chills are
ekdum
thanda
, as the story traces the attempts
of a young couple to cure their daughter of the mysterious ailment that seems to
have stricken her. From a happy-go-lucky kid, she's now a girl who grunts in a
man's voice and flies up to the ceiling, a
la
Exorcist
.
All
said and done,
Bhoot
was the bigger scare than
Phoonk.
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