Raaz-The mystery continues [Review]
Just like most of the actors in the tinsel town of Bollywood, the mysterious evil spirit in the movie Raaz-The mystery continues, prefers he’s Hindi script to be written in English. The ghost conveys the threatening messages and clues in the language of Hindi, boldly written in the Queen’s alphabets. You wonder why? But that remains as good a Raaz as the coils of mystery keeps unfolding in the first half of the movie. [The second half is insane, and, hey, you don’t get answer for the above question even in the second half, I certainly didn’t]
Director Mohi Suri’s Raaz scares you, builds quite a mystery, and as it goes into the spiral of spooky events leading toward the second half, it makes you build an expectation of a good solid flashback to substantiate the trauma the protagonist [Kangana Ranaut's character] goes through and that expectation evokes a hope that the director would at least give a shocking, surprising ending to an otherwise one of the run-of-the-mill horror films. And the hope comes crashing down like the sensex of the Bombay stock exchange.
Supermodel [Kangana] is happy in the city of Mumbai, with her boyfriend [Adhyayan]- An ace reporter cum Anchor busy busting the myths and superstitions the Indian society is grappled with. The couple achieves quite a success by compromising on the great Indian values and what not. Their sole Mantra is- ‘own a dreamworld no matter what it takes.’
life seems good and happening until, Kangana comes across an artist [Hashmi], who claims to know the discourse of the evil things are on their way, slowly approaching Kangana through the ‘masterpieces’ he paints. Life is no more a peppy ball for Kangana as she confronts with weird instances happening, one after the other, that’s when, she decides to meet Hashmi, only to get to know that she is part of a plot, a mistake committed in the past. Soon, she discovers the death of some people from the city under suspicious circumstances is the end result of their inclusive, collective Paap committed in the past and she is to meet the same fate the other people died with. And the journey to get to the root of the rotten fate err…Razz begins. To know the Mystery you will have to go through Animated Bisons, Black-magic, voodoo dolls, occult power and wooden faced Adhyayan.
The Film is not bad, but it will serve a great example of how a good, intrigue generating story could be butchered by a hurried direction. As I said, the first half of the movie is good, but the second half is so overwhelmingly unjustified that its failure overpowers the goodness of the first half. Kangana by now knows how to portray that drowsy, bleary-eyed problem-infested young woman. [Right from Gangster to Life in a Metro to Fashion to blah blah] there isn’t a much difference between the characters she has portrayed till now. In this movie she has done a good job, but again the same tone and more or less the similar character she has portrayed before. As for Hashmi, he dosen't kiss anybody on screen this time [The job is passed on to Adhyayan this time around, and he does that well] yes, Imran has done a justice to his character with an apt performance. His lost in his own world artist comes across very subtly but pretty nicely. Adhyayan could have been portrayed by any Tom, Dick and Harry and it could have come better if not the same.
Like Bhutt's earlier success at the box office, Raaz too has good music especially, the two tracks of soniyo and aaja mahi. The movie is marred by an unconvincing, almost a laughable end that suddenly takes the fizzle out of a well built up drama. What makes the matter worse is the fact, that, unlike, the Raaz part 1, presence of a ghost doesn’t come across well. [You start sympathising with the ghost instead of getting scared by him, and guess who the ageing ghost who has played a spoilsport can be?] This flick is in no way related to the Dino Morea and Bipasha starrer prequel. [no continuation of mystery, no matter what the title says.] All in all, not a bad watch for one time if you are up to a naught!
Ratings- *** almost three on five [and that’s being generous!]
Director Mohi Suri’s Raaz scares you, builds quite a mystery, and as it goes into the spiral of spooky events leading toward the second half, it makes you build an expectation of a good solid flashback to substantiate the trauma the protagonist [Kangana Ranaut's character] goes through and that expectation evokes a hope that the director would at least give a shocking, surprising ending to an otherwise one of the run-of-the-mill horror films. And the hope comes crashing down like the sensex of the Bombay stock exchange.
Supermodel [Kangana] is happy in the city of Mumbai, with her boyfriend [Adhyayan]- An ace reporter cum Anchor busy busting the myths and superstitions the Indian society is grappled with. The couple achieves quite a success by compromising on the great Indian values and what not. Their sole Mantra is- ‘own a dreamworld no matter what it takes.’
life seems good and happening until, Kangana comes across an artist [Hashmi], who claims to know the discourse of the evil things are on their way, slowly approaching Kangana through the ‘masterpieces’ he paints. Life is no more a peppy ball for Kangana as she confronts with weird instances happening, one after the other, that’s when, she decides to meet Hashmi, only to get to know that she is part of a plot, a mistake committed in the past. Soon, she discovers the death of some people from the city under suspicious circumstances is the end result of their inclusive, collective Paap committed in the past and she is to meet the same fate the other people died with. And the journey to get to the root of the rotten fate err…Razz begins. To know the Mystery you will have to go through Animated Bisons, Black-magic, voodoo dolls, occult power and wooden faced Adhyayan.
The Film is not bad, but it will serve a great example of how a good, intrigue generating story could be butchered by a hurried direction. As I said, the first half of the movie is good, but the second half is so overwhelmingly unjustified that its failure overpowers the goodness of the first half. Kangana by now knows how to portray that drowsy, bleary-eyed problem-infested young woman. [Right from Gangster to Life in a Metro to Fashion to blah blah] there isn’t a much difference between the characters she has portrayed till now. In this movie she has done a good job, but again the same tone and more or less the similar character she has portrayed before. As for Hashmi, he dosen't kiss anybody on screen this time [The job is passed on to Adhyayan this time around, and he does that well] yes, Imran has done a justice to his character with an apt performance. His lost in his own world artist comes across very subtly but pretty nicely. Adhyayan could have been portrayed by any Tom, Dick and Harry and it could have come better if not the same.
Like Bhutt's earlier success at the box office, Raaz too has good music especially, the two tracks of soniyo and aaja mahi. The movie is marred by an unconvincing, almost a laughable end that suddenly takes the fizzle out of a well built up drama. What makes the matter worse is the fact, that, unlike, the Raaz part 1, presence of a ghost doesn’t come across well. [You start sympathising with the ghost instead of getting scared by him, and guess who the ageing ghost who has played a spoilsport can be?] This flick is in no way related to the Dino Morea and Bipasha starrer prequel. [no continuation of mystery, no matter what the title says.] All in all, not a bad watch for one time if you are up to a naught!
Ratings- *** almost three on five [and that’s being generous!]
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