Nov 02, 2004 12:12 AM
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(Updated Nov 02, 2004 12:12 AM)
Tennis balls hang in mid air, a banyan tree has more load than it can bear.
Mix together 'The Shining', 'Evil Dead', 'Poltergeist', 'Dawn of the Dead' with a dash of 'The Sixth Sense'
and voila you have the latest product from the RGV factory 'Vaastu Shastra'
What actual Vaastu has to do with the movie we best leave that question alone.
So moves in a family, papa, mummy, beta aur saali in a house which seems to be somewhere on the outskirts of Pune.
Papa (Chakravarty of Satya Fame) is a writer who sits in a den typing not so furiously on his laptop.
Mummy(Sushmita Sen) is a doctor of some kind.
Beta(whats his name) plays the whole day and saali (Peeya Roy Chowdhary) secretively chats on the phone with bf.
Banyan tree starts groaning and doors creak to closure. People keep moving around in dark dimly lit rooms
literally asking for it. The tennis ball keeps travelling around likes presidential candidates on the campaign trail.
Lights go off and mummy is scared out of her wits when she see's a ghoul in the dark.
Beta starts playing with his imaginary friends who we all know are bhoots but the family is blissfully unaware until the new maid gets the flying tennis ball on her face.
This leads to the most chilling scene in the entire film where the maid holds the kid out in the front of a speeding truck.
Maid ends up dead(killed by the tennis ball, of course) and interval.
Post interval things start speeding up and the ghouls go into
over drive and start killing people left and right and there's a redux
of the 'Thriller' video. all ebd up dead
except for .... ah well I think I'll let u see this one.
Tennis ball however mysteriously disappears.
The reason for the ghouls presence/existence is left unexplained and anonymous like a blank phone call. U don't know but what the heck.
Why should all the ghouls have some reason for their existence ?
Some of them maybe here for the heck of it.
The movie is like Bhoot 2 but it is not as good as Bhoot
The sound and camera effects are enough to make people jump out of their seats.
Chakravarty sleep walks through his role and Sushmita is ok.
The child star is the best thing in the film.
Mercifully no songs and the length is a manageable 108 minutes
I am giving this 3 stars cos it is much better than the other crap thats out there.
One thing is for sure, Vaastu be damned, stay away from the tennis balls
