Darr @ the Mall: Fails to evoke fear in minds.

It seems that after 2008, the Indian cinema industry has failed to take a cue from the much appreciated horror movies like 1920 and 13B. No other movie could deliver the same package of thrill, adventure and fear as it did. Even there was much expectation from the recent horror flicks 1920 Evil Returns and Ek Thi Daayan.

There was an expectation that Bollywood will learn something from these failures and the movie released this Friday, Darr @ The Mall will be a ray of hope. But this also seems to have shattered our hopes. 

While I rushed to the cinema hall nearby to grab some thrill and horror, my attempts and expectations seem to have gone futile like other movie buffs. There seem to be some weak links that mar the fear factor in the movie.

For example, the scene wherein the small girl (that was a ghost) revealed the secret behind the fear in the mall. Movie lacks a good climax and background score (unless the background music is like that we enjoyed in first half of Ek Thi Daayan, or 1920 the movie is crap in the name of horror flick). As far as the scenes are concerned, the fear factor should be like that of 1920, which is benchmark in the Indian horror movies. 

At last, the suspense was not properly revealed in the movie(for which I consider 13B as the benchmark). Initial scenes of the movie were quite promising of the quality of the entire movie, but later it fails due to weak presentation.

In a nutshell, the future horror movie producers should take a cue from 1920, 13B and Ek Thi Daayan before branding them a true horror.

Jai Ho: A common man against the powerful and apparently against Newton.

Apparently, the movies starring Salman Khan, have something very special apart from the audience crazy for his performance and for his movies. It has many things different from other movies. His movies always seem to be challenging the Newton's laws of motion.  

For example, the 3rd law of motion says: "to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". But for Radhe, Chulbul, Lovely Singh and (recently) Jai Agnihotri (all these being the names of Salman Khan in Wanted, Dabangg, Bodyguard and Jai Ho), this law doesn't work any more. The law of his action and reaction seems to be:

"every time there is an action against Salman Khan, there will be at least 1000 times opposite reaction to the actor".

Talking about his recent release Jai Ho, I can conclude that no doubt the concept is quite good as it revolves around the common man's interest. But as far as the execution part is concerned, this movie fails to deliver due to the law of motion (whose follower seems to be Rohit Shetty as well) followed in the Salman's movies. 

A person closely following the scenes of Salman's movies might have come across a climax which involves the fight of this macho-man with some equally muscular bodybuilder (be it Chhedi Singh of Dabangg, Chunni of Dabangg 2, Aryan of Ready and of course the recent one being a John Doe in Jai Ho) which helps both Salman and his opponent to show the hardwork they have done to their body by showing their abs. 

Such crap stunts mar the quality of the Indian movies. It must be avoided by the producers in order to make it worth international standard.

Bullet Raja: Disappointment from Mr. Dhulia

I missed first 10 minutes of the movie but I don't regret it. Its because, I just can't believe that this movie was directed from the director of great movies like Haasil, Pan Singh Tomar and Saaheb Biwi aur Gangster. This movie seems to be a disappointment and just a masaala movie to a great extent. 

However, in an interview, Mr. Dhulia himself said that he selected Saif Ali Khan because he wanted to generate revenue for his movie. But he would compromise with the quality of his movie and goodwill to such an extent, this was beyond my imagination. There were some questions that remained unanswered:

1. What was the need to introduce the martial arts expert Vidyut Jamwal as a crucial player in the whole game?
2. What was the need to kill Jimmy Shergil  for inciting Saif Ali Khan?
3. Was there any need to show a twist like encounter of Raja Mishra?
4. Could this movie be reformed as a good directional project?
5. Could this movie do well even in absence of the star casts like Vidyut, Gulshan Grover and Sonakshi Sinha?
6. Was there the need of dialogues like "jab aayenge toh garmi badhegi"?

I rate this movie 2.5 out of 5. Nothing much it deserves. Believe me.