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Feb 1, 2015

Khamoshiyan Review

"Half baked" would be too less a word to describe the movie Khamoshiyan . Coming from the Bhatt camp where Vikram Bhat is the writer and Mukesh Bhatt the producer, the movie directed by Karan Darra, fails miserably in all departments making it a double boring affair on screen.

The movie follow Kabir, a writer who seems all lost with his love life and decide on to move ahead through a small journey and lands up in a deserted hotel run by a lady named Meera who is married to bedridden Jaidev. Things look good for a prosperous romance between Meera and Kabir but it is not that easy as it can be said. The ghostly and haunting aspect makes its presence felt and rest you can easily imagine what is there in store for the audience.

"Cliched" is a word that is used quite often in reviews especially when it comes to the horror genre as the expectations for a desi horror flick from Bhatt family is at a very low level. No sin in that. But at least the content and narrative should have a minimum standard and Khamoshiyan fails in that aspect. Direction is disappointing and with a wayward screenplay along with irritating dialogues, the movie drag things as far as it can reach and ultimately end up on the losing side.

Ali and Sapna Pabbi have a done a pretty good job as Kabir and Meera respectively in spite of the script not coming to their help. Same is the case with Gurmeet Choudhary as Jaideep, a brief but an all important character from the film's perspective.

Cinematography was not that bad and the visuals were really helped by eye catching scenic beauty of the locale where the film was shot. Edits were ok. Visual effects didn't make any impact while songs were better considering how the movie performed.

So Khamoshiyan has ghost, an errotic content and everything that we see from the recent crop of desi horror movies but without a backbone; yes a solid screenplay and storyline. I can at best give a rating of one out of five and not more than that. So now you know what to do; yes skip it.

Rating - 1 / 5

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