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Thriller
India 2009
produced by Shahed Sk-Rk
directed by Aziz Naser
starring Aziz Naser, RK, Trupti Bhoir, Adnan Sajd, Shagufta Zareen, Basha, Akbar Bin Tabar, Adil Hussaini, Mazhar Khan, Shiva, Mallika, Fahem, Monto, Gundu Hanumanth Rao, Bank Vijay, Moin Khan, Tadivelu
screenplay by Aziz Naser, dialogues by Salman Hyder, Aziz Naser, music by Ramana
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Model college student Sanjay has his hands full, keeping his three
friends, bumbling students if there ever were any, out of trouble and out
of the principal's reach, juggling his two girlfriends, and learning for
his final exams. In the end, though, he passes his exams as well as his
friends, and they all decide to Goa for recreation (yup, including both
girlfriends). On their way to Goa, they even make friends with the
principal - a friendship that soon pays dividend when Sanjay and his
friends are captured by a heavily armed backwoods gang, and Mr. principal
breaks them free and helps them escape. However, they escape into a
haunted part of the forest, where a female ghost kills them off one by
one, until only Sanjay is left alive - and he hasn't got long to live it
seems, since the ghost - a woman who was run over by Sanjay's ever-absent
dad - is already at his throat, when ... Sanjay wakes up, and it's still
the morning he and his friends wanted to go to Goa. It was all just a
dream - or was it? Not as
much a genre flick but a genre mix or Massala movie, this one is a rather
ill-concieved blend of high school comedy, backwoods-slasher and horror
flick, with by far most of the screentime taken up by Sanjay's friends'
college shenanigans - actually the thriller elements don't kick in until
the last 15 minutes and then seem to come out of nowhere. Now all that
wouldn't be too bad if any of the comedy that makes up the main part of
the movie was any good or original ... but unfortunately it isn't, it's
just annoying and repetitive and even the narrative framework supposed to
hold the whole thing together is little more than an incoherent mess. You
really might want to give this one a miss!
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