DARNA IMPOSSIBLE HAI

Film: PHOONK
Director: RAM GOPAL VERMA



Normally, horror movies seem more horror when one sees them at midnight, before he goes to sleep. The darkness and the silence of the night makes the horror movie further scary. Considering this classical statement I decided to watch Phoonk at 12 midnight.....

After the failure of all his flicks, except Sarkar Raj which did average, Ram Gopal Verma couldnt really make a comeback. But if he did even a little with Sarkar Raj, he spoilt it with Contract and Phoonk.

I wouldnt have rated Phoonk so less if he wouldnt have made claims that this movie is the most horrifying and scary and if someone watches it alone, I give him 5 lakhs!! I was actually laughing at the script and screenplay....not scary at all..

If we do not consider the story of the movie, then I should say that the direction is pretty good and the camera work is excellent. And so is the cinematography. But the story and the plot really SUCKS!!

Its about black magic and superstition. A man who doesnt believe in God and superstition goes through a fight with a couple who used to work for him as he realised that the couple was eating up his construction company's money... The wife amongst the couple was odd and mad and actually knew Black Magic. To build up the desired scariness, RGV overdid the odness of this lady, so much that it was funny the way she laughed and dressed up.

She takes the revenge of her being thrown out by applying Black Magic on this man's daughter. This daughter of his starts living in multiple personalities thereafter. She starts talking like a robotic man at times and behaves like a mad person(what they call Bhoot Attack)

Now the whole story is this. They try to make us afraid by showing this odness of the girl. None of the scary scenes were new and was very predictable and guess what....funny..! It was getting evident that RGV is short of ideas and the plot really, really weak...

The movie ends thereafter with a poor climax, where this man a believer of science loses faith and for the sake of his daughter accepts the superstition of bringing a baba to remove the bhoot from his daughter....So what you realise is that RGV has now established that "It is superstition unless it happens to you"

Such movies actually carry a modern youth backward. With great difficulty has some part of India been able to come out of such nuisance shit. And such movies make attempts to bring those ancient gawar thinkings back. Though the attempt was made, RGV couldnt really make one believe even for even a split second that it can really happen to you!

I wish I had applied for that contest...I could have easily got those 5 lakhs and actually given Ramu some tips how to scare me the next time he made one!! So literally, Darna Impossible Hai!!