Review of Aatma - Not at all scary

Review of Aatma

Direction - Suparn Verma

Produced - Kumar Mangat Pathak,Abhishek Pathak

Written by -Suparn Verma

Starring -Bipasha Basu ,Nawazuddin Siddiqui , Doyle Dhawan

Music  - Sangeet Haldipur ,Siddharth Haldipur

Release date- 22 March 2013

Review  - Aatma is another one from basket of 'Horror' movies.The story is of not so happily married couple 'Maya' (Bipasha Basu' ) and Abhay (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). They hav a cute little daughter Nia (Doyel Dhawan). Abhay is women beater pscyotic upper middle class ' Shaqki husband, who tortures Maya with his abusive behaviour. But loves his daughter very much, actually obesses with her.Just the day of their divorce settlement that separated him from his only child., Abhay dies in an accident and returns as vengeful ‘Ghost/Atma' to take away his daughter from this mother.

This is when strange events happens to occur in Nia's Life The Aatma kills people who ever tries to trouble or even annoy his daughter Nia remotely.Nia’s classmate and teacher die in mysterious circumstances. Maya also starred having nightmares of Abhay'. Eventually, she discovers that Nia has been talking to someone imaginary (whom she claims is her father).Her fears come true when  he herself saw Abhay’s ‘Aatma’ that’s haunting them , he threatens her as he wants to take Nia back with him.

As far As Performances are concerned, Bips was good and convincing as a mother fightuing for her daughter's life.Nawaz was not at all scary as a ghost but as a abusive husband was indeed effective.The little kid did a very good job.Among the supporting cast, Shernaz Patel  as Bipasha's Mother stands out.

The Story doesnt have anything new to serve, we can very well make out its not otiginal and a straight copy from hollywood as well as bollywood movies, As the director is well known for his borrowing skills. After all, ‘ Confidence ‘and ‘The Unknown’ were the base that guided his previous two movies.The director fails to give some thrills or suspense in its script, the story is quite predictable.

The Background score is below average, not like 'Bhoot ' which was successfull to scare audiences with its single door bell sound. The VFX effects are quite shoddy.

Rating - 1 out of 5

Verdict - Not even a one time watch, Nothing  new to offer .Just go if you have enough time and money with good company.It could have been able to attract auduences if released with 3D effects. But its much better than the recent horror release 3G.