COPY OF BHOOT!NOT REALLY. Review on Vaastu Shastra

WHEN YOU PROMOTE A FILM AS ‘IF BHOOT SCARED YOU,VAASTU SHASTRA WILL KILL YOU’,PEOPLE WHO GO TO WATCH THE MOVIE EXPECT IT TO BE FAR BETTER THAN THE FIRST ONE.

BUT THE FACT IS THOUGH THIS BHOOT SEQUEL TITLED VAASTU SHASTRA IS APPEALING IN PARTS,IT NEITHER HAS THE TECHNICAL FINESSE THAT BHOOT HAD IN IT,NEITHER AS REFRESHING AS BHOOT WAS NOR IS SOURABH USHA NARANG AN ACCOMPLISHED A STORYTELLER AS RGV.VS HAS STRIKING SIMILARITIES WITH THE 1980 JACK NICHOLSON STARRER THE SHINING & THE NICOLE KIDMAN HIT THE OTHERS.

ON THE PERFORMANCE FRONT,SUSMITA LOOKS BRILLIANT(THIS TIME WITHOUT MAKE-UP) & IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE APHRODITE OF ‘MAIN HOON NAA’.SHE CARRIES HER CHARECTAR WITH ELAN.CHAKREVARTY,LAST SEEN IN SATYA DOES SHOW SOME PROMISE BUT IS LAID DOWN BY HIS HALF-PENNED CHARECTARISATION.PEEYA RAI CHAUDHURI & PURAB ARE GOOD WITH PEEYA EXCELLING ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS(ONE OF THE SCENES WHERE BLOOD FLOWS FROM HER NOSE WITHOUT HER NOTICING IT).RAJPAL YADAV( THOUGH HAS A CAMEOISH ROLE IN THE FILM), SHOWS ONCE AGAIN THAT HE IS AN ACTOR OF CLASS.BUT THE REAL STAR OF THE FILM IS FOUR YEAR OLD AHSAAS CHANNA,WHO DEPITE HIS AGE,HAS GIVEN A SUBTLE & CONTROLLED PERFORMANCE FULL OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS.HE DESERVES AN AWARD FOR HIS PERFORMANCE.HIS PERFORMANCE ALSO REMINDS OF THE HOLLYWOOD FLICK POLTERGEIST.

SACHIN K.KRISHN’S CAMERA WORK IS EYE-CATCHING BUT NOT GLAMOROUS THOUGH.EDITING IS CRISP BUT THE SCREEPLAY LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED.OVERALL,PEOPLE EXPECTING VAASTU SHASTRA TO BE A SEQUEL OF BHOOT WILL BE LEFT DISAPPOINTED AS THOUGH THE PREMISE IS THE SAME WITH A COUPLE MOVING INTO A CURSED HOUSE,COMPARED TO BHOOT,IT IS A DOWNER ON MOST OF THE OCCASIONS.