Sunday, May 22, 2011

Movie Review: Haunted (3D)

Haunted (it's a Hindi movie, by the way) has all the incredients of a typical B grade horror movie: one ghost raping another for 80 years in an old mansion, cobras, wells, priests, babas, and a lot of gyaan that can be invaluable for the audience - spirits should never be referred to by their name as it gives them strength and they are strongest at 300 am and weakest at 300 pm.

The cast is poor. Mithun's son Makaakshay should put his name to use in fighting the spirits, and find a better way to exploit his dancing "skills" - his routine brings tears of laughter to his lover's face, and most of the audience reacted similarly to his attempt at wowing us with his skills on the floor. Tia Bajpai is cute in parts, but sadly seems to have nothing special going for her and is likely to join the dozens of one-film starlets.

What's interesting is the high quality of 3D. Although, I think, the real fun is when stuff pops out of the screen towards you - the closeup of the baba's face with the strands of white hair blowing in the wind tantalizingly close to you was awesome :) We need more of it.

Completely avoidable.

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