DOBAARA : SEE YOUR EVIL Movie Review - Huma and Saqib deliver terrific performances!
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DIRECTOR - Prawaal Raman
GENRE - Horror
DURATION - 2hr 5mins
RATING - 3.5/5
PLOT - Natasha Merchant (Huma Qureshi) and Kabir(Saqib Saleem) are two London-based siblings who grew up scarred. Separated from each other as children, 11-year old Kabir is locked up in a mental facility room for counselling because he’s suspected to have committed a murder. After a decade, the brother-sister duo reunites and this time around, Natasha is sure that she will find the real culprit, kill `it’ and exonerate the family name.
REVIEW - 25-year-old Natasha keeps asking a question from the haunted mirror. Mirror, Mirror on the wall, are you the most evil of them all? An exhibit that is waiting to be auctioned in the gallery she works at.
Standing there in front of the object she recalls her childhood, when her parents, father (Adil Hussain) and her mother Lisa (Lisa Ray), her brother Kabir and their pet Rambo were so blissed out. But vividly she also remembers how things took a turn for the worse, when their dad brought home a `haunted’ mirror which was egged on by the resident ghost in the mirror Ana (Madalina Bellabriu Ion) . Very soon, her father actually shoots her mother. In turn, her brother shoots her father. Quite naturally their lives are torn asunder. Kabir gets committed to psychiatric care and Natasha is left fending for herself.
After a decade, the brother-sister duo reunites, the determined Natasha and reticent Kabir plan to destroy the mirror. But as it turns out, the mirror itself has other plans in store for them.
Director of the film, Prawaal knows his strength and focusses more on jolt-giving scenes, but a few scenes need a cohesive factor. However, the film's 145-minute duration saves him to some extent on this front.
FINAL WORDS - DOBAARA : SEE YOUR EVIL is a faithful remake of Oculus and can make your hair stand at times. The latest horror flick gives you some spooky moments of fear, apprehension, dread and trepidation. Huma Qureshi and Saqib Saleem did full justice to their roles in this paranormal thriller. This horror flick uses flashback as a technique to spook the audience and this is definitely a notch above the desi horror films. But some of the spooky bits are unintentionally funny. The background score is good and the pace is dreary because it depends too much on repetitive dialogue. Adapted from Oculus, this one had the potential to be more, but it seems quite stretchy. Hindi filmmakers rarely achieve such finesse in mostly predictable paranormal stories. Feel the chills.
IN DEPTH RATINGS -
DIRECTION - 3.5/5
STORY - 3.5/5
DIALOGUES - 3/5
MUSIC - 2.5/5
VISUAL APPEAL - 3.5/5
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