The first shock came in the form of HOUSE FULL show in spite of Ramu's last array of amazingly preposterous films...Though we got decent seats but I was REALLY shocked to see people sitting in the front row to watch a horror-flick by Ram Gopal Varma!!! Also I was happy to see the optimism in Indian audience... Now you must be wondering why "I" also went for the film??? Answer is simple - I LOVE HORROR FILMS... and my fav horror films are those of Ramsay bros. with over-the-top ghosts, female ghosts with white saarees etc... I think I've watched almost all of 'em...
Coming back to Phoonk…To begin with I donno why the film is called Phoonk?? There was no explanation of it throughout the film…Ok, so coming to story, like all other horror films, it can be told in 2-3 sentences. A successful, atheist-to-core constructor is leading a very happy life with his family of 5. Like all other fathers, he loves his daughter more than anyone else. His business partners (a couple looks like spastic victims!!!) betray him and he throws them out of his party in front of 100 other people. Feeling awfully insulted, couple decided to seek revenge without killing or harming the constructor…so they decided to pick up the daughter from the family as their prey as she is closest to her father, the same was depicted earlier in the film. And finally the bizarre incidents (as bizarre as flying!!!) that are happening to his daughter shook his world completely and he was forced to believe in God & Evil…
Now, till intermission, not even a SINGLE scary moment makes you miss your heart beat…and the scariest moment you would come across till now is the frame when it shows “A Ram Gopal Varma Film”!!!
Post intermission, RGV makes you watch his arrogance in filmmaking…film has many outlandish (in a negative way obviously) shots where no attention was paid to jump cuts, imaginary lines, focus & framing etc. He took the shots as & how HE wanted to take them...most of the shots are out-focus as they call it & there is absolutely NO framing whatsoever!!!
And if we leave technicalities apart, content was even stranger… I really want to meet a single mother who sees her daughter “flying” (well, literally) repeatedly in her room and gets pacified when doctors told her that it’s a psychological disorder!!! And to worsen it, she was a firm believer in God as shown…C’mon Ramu, we all know you’re a genius but we, audience, also at least have common sense if not brains!!!
And I definitely don’t want to go into acting of the cast…I think the only “actor” film had was Ashwini Kalsekar and her talent was appallingly underused by I-am-the-God syndrome victim Mr. Ram Gopal Varma…but still I think anyone who should be nominated in this years award functions is the crow on the tree…He has a bigger role than most of the cast put together. And then there is a “yo-maid” in the film who was smarter & more sophisticated than the owner of the house!!! Also, there is a pervert driver in the film who drove only “twice” in the entire film even though there are many driving scenes in the film… Also the main lead is dreadfully unpersuasive. The male protagonist was not at all looking like a “successful” constructor with a “bungalow” in Mumbai!!! The wife is a housewife and a profound advocate of God. But why she needs to be in saree all the time and why she can’t behave like a wife of super-successful constructor who got the contract of IT-Park in
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