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Amavas movie review: Nargis Fakhri – Sachiin Joshi’s film is a stretched ghost drama that has nothing new

Amavas movie review: Nargis Fakhri – Sachiin Joshi’s ghost drama doesn’t stick to anything and loses everything…

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In an attempt to make a film with many twists in one, director Bhushan Patel made a dud, that seemed to me like never-ending suffering. It felt like someone pitched this idea and someone completely different actually invested money in it. But then, the credit roll cleared all my doubts. Produced by Raina ‘Sachiin Joshi’. Brother, you need to stop this!

What’s it about: All over the place, but let’s try. A happy couple on the verge of getting married decide to go on a vacation, as Karan (Sachiin Joshi) wants to propose to Ahana (Nargis Fakhri). Ahana wants to go to a place called ‘summer house’, don’t ask where, it’s a huge castle that belongs to Karan’s family. All the problems begin here. Karan has a bad memory from the past related to that castle that has been haunting him since a very long time. After getting in to the castle, ghostly events begin to take place, and that’s the rest of the film.

The film gets into many angles, haunted house, murder mystery, revenge story and a possessed character. But it doesn’t drive any point home. All the twists weave themselves into the screenplay and get loosely solved, till one of the leads dies (Yes, Spoiler!).

Yay: The only yay point was Mona Singh who plays a therapist, and well, a part-time exorcist of sorts. But she is the best actor of the ensemble which makes her a ray of hope. The castle is beautiful, and the set design is good.

Nay: When will we stop using the same female voice to dub for Nargis and Sunny Leone? The locations are based in London, the ‘summer house’ seems to be somewhere in Europe, and the three romantic songs take you to Venice. Tell me the exact location and the budget. This film is a checklist of all the pointers that Bollywood in its ghost films has portrayed, creaky doors, singing ghost, flashback of the ghost when alive and so on.

The film doesn’t stick to any specifics, and travels through twist after twist, making it a long stretched out, ghost amusement ride we never asked for. Acting came much later if it did at all, let’s not even talk about it. There were visibly  massive efforts from Sachiin’s side in dancing- too stiff, lip-synching -for himself, and romancing – like he’s afraid of the heroine, but, needless to say,  Sachiin failed to impress.

Cine Blitz Verdict: Make plans go out, visit places this week, but don’t head towards the theatre. It’s Amavas ki lambi raat!

 Ratings: 1/2 star

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