Star-Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Huma Qureshi,
Konkona Sen Sharma
Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Producer: Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Vishal Bhardwaj
Genre: Musical Thriller
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Review -
This Horror thriller movie is from the kitty of Indian cinema's creative minds ie Vishal Bharadwaj and Ekta Kapoor. We already had a glimpse of 'Dayaan' in Bhardwaj's Movie 'Makadi', but ETD finally found a pride of place where Chudail actually deserves to be – horror film genre. The movie is based on short stories of Mukul Sharma (Konkana's real life father).
Story revolves around, Bobo(Emraan Hashmi) , a magician , his hallucination n past experiences with 'Dayaan' and 3 womaniya's (Kalki Koechlin, Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma) who glued audiences in Playing 'Guess the Daayan'.
I will not reveal the story as it will take out the gist of the movie and will spoil total movie watching experience.
The first half is all about Bobo's childhood ,to where the audiences are taken through a hypnosis session on Bobo. This portion of the movie is awesome, Mukul Sharma's story brings the daayan to our very own city of Mumbai, into our building.The production team has done a wonderful job with the sets.There is a creepy lizard shown in it, which is really scary , at least for people like me who have a phobia for reptiles. The story evolves with concepts like The 'Ulta pair' of indian Chudail ,Long lusturous 'choti' ,No. 666,and kid eating 'Dayaan' which glued the audiences in the first half.
The second half is not much exciting, the script is predictive but with little twist as the director wants the movie to end. Though the first half gave a new perspective to horror movie lovers but again the latte half got trapped with the stereotype.But at least the director didn't show the cliches 'Tantric Baba' kind of end in it, that's what makes it refreshing than any other jadoo-tona witch movie.ETD manages to maintain a great balance
The casting is good, Emraan is good in his character, above average with no overacting .He played undertone and generous enough to let the ladies play their roles.The one who shines apart among the three ladies is Konkana Sen Sharma, with her unconventional beauty n looks.She is successful to scare the audiences.She did a wonderful job.She has delivered several hard-hitting performances in past of her movies but ETD shall be one of her most memorable performances for sure! The other actors like Kalki and Huma Qureshi have also did their parts quite well.Nothing much to do for Kalki in it and got overpowered by the other two actresses but did her part well. And not to forget the two Kids (essayed by Sara Arjun as Misha and Vishesh Tiwari as the young Bobo and his sister) are worth mentioning, they did their part wonderfully and are really gems for their age. Pavan Malhotra (Emraan’s father) is natural as always.
Music is not so effective except for one or two songs, 'Yaaram'' and ''Kaali Kaali'' are gems. but the background score is well made perfectly fit to a horror movie giving goose bumps and chills.
The direction is good. Kanan Iyer as a first time director should take a bow as he emerges as a promising director with his strong hold on script.
Rating - 3 out of 5
Verdict - Definitely a much needed change in horror genre movie,Light hearted horror lovers go for it. If not anything else,Just go for Konkana Sen's performance.For best experience watch in it theaters.
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