No not the so-so French action flick B13 but the new desi horror flick with Madhavan. I won't go into much detail since Ravi was working on a review but I liked it a good deal. The main plot feels reasonably original, the film has an eerie resonance in some parts and is laugh-out-loud camp in others, but enjoyable both ways. Some lovely night-time and B&W photography by old-timer PC Sreeram.

The opening scenes, where it goes the RGV-horror route, are the weakest, so stick with it past the first 15-20min and your patience, depending on your expectations from the film, will likely be rewarded.

cool...the trailer looked interesting..atleast for a hindi horror film

Apparently my boss' batchmate from college directed it. He also added that when he called him to congratulate him, he got shelled for not having returned any calls since college until this news was out. Ha.

You watched the Hindi one or the Tamil one? Which would be more worthwhile?

Thanks for the recc, should make for a good post boards movie.

Thought the trailer made it seem like another RGV shtick. Cool that it's turned out ok, it's running at the single screen nearby too, may be I'll go watch before friday.

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NO, RLY?!!

So I caught this tonight. Had a verdict of pretty decent by the time it was finished. I guess the song and dance sequences were a necessary evil, and I shall commend him for making the item number as pointless as possible and showing it after the movie was done. Like Suresh said, the early scares were pretty camp, and the overexposure of the whole 13 and B thing kind of diluted the genuine psychological scares later on. That retard was pretty unconvincing too. Still, WAY better than anything I've seen on the video coaches from Chennai to Cochin (rogue-ish boy meets spunky girl - girl is in trouble with powerful bad guy - boy kicks bad guy's ass - bad guy kills boy's parents - boy snaps and wrecks bad guy's shit), so kudos.

Genuinely scary, huh?
Good, about time.

Well, creepy more than scary - there wasn't any moment in the movie where I jumped off my seat or started wincing.

Nice one, Ravi. Seems you guys liked this a little more than I did. Of course, the fact that (1) a lot of the dialog went over my head, forcing me to ask my neighbours for quick translations whenever something that sounded like an important revelation passed and (2) most of the audience was hooting through a good deal of the movie might have crimped my experience.

Part of the fun of the film is the inherent humor of know-it-all (Oh you women and your silly soaps) men frantically asking each other (and the women around them) what happened in a serial, so a certain degree of hooting and guffawing is part of the film's appreciation. Me and Prachit laughed out loud at several instances including the climactic scene

Didn't dig this at all.

I thought this was a really ordinary film. Better than the shit RGV has been churning out but not by much. The dream sequence was the only moment of tension in a film that lasted for well over two hours and the dialogue was consistently of the shit with some of it reaching ridiculous levels. It seemed like the movie wasn't sure if it should go all out on the camp or try and play it straight and in the end it was the same story as with most of our Bollywood horror fare with the sly wink-nudge brigade coming out on top and reducing the horror to a mere afterthought.