Okay forget about a good story backed by believable acting. All I expected to at least have few good scares when I was sitting through this humdrum which was such a mind numbing experience. The Horror genre in Bollywood has never been much innovative. We always get to see the same recycled thrash with recent trend being making remakes of some regional horror movies of other countries. This one based on a Thai horror movie with same name, which has been already remade in Tamil and Kannada. OK, its adapted material still it could have been at least watchable with good direction and pacing. But, Alone is void of any suspense or tense build-up which I believe the essence of any horror movie. The overdrawn climax filled with banality of flashbacks which seems a bit intriguing compared to rest of the film, at closer look opens up glaring plot holes in the whole script.
The plot revolves around conjoined twin sisters Sanjana & Anjana (Bipasha Basu) and the man they both fall for same man Kabir (Karan Singh Grover). But it seems Kabir only loved Sanjana before he went of to London for studies. Well all this is past though, in present day Kabir and Sanjana are married. Anjana had died in some accident when they had surgery to separate themselves. The romance in the plot simply is blank and loathed with over the top kissing(more like eating). There seemed to be no characteristic highlight of Sanjana that made Kabir love her and not her sister, after all they both looked the same. OK leave it, coming back to the story all the characters' native place was Kerala where all the incident of Anjana's death had happened. After her mother falls ill and is in hospital, Sanjana and Karan come to Kerala to her mother's house. No guessing what will happen next with them in the house. All of this almost takes 45 minutes of the run time which could have been easily done in 15 minutes. Again forgetting that boring wait, I was ready to be spooked by the ghost haunting them in the house. Apart from 1 or 2 moments, which were nothing more than cheap jump-scares consisting of sudden loud noise there is nothing scary. The same creaky noises, doors opening, piano playing on its own are used. There is also a local housemaid and her daughter-in-law just to add more characters to the screenplay apart from the 2 lead. Both talk to each other in Hindi despite being from Kerala. Towards.Towards the end we also have a Tantrik Baba with all his ho- hum and suddenly he is gone telling that the ghost is still residing somewhere in the house. They still stay there, so that we would witness a twisty climax thinking we would leave cinema surprised. Alas! The ending did not make any sense at all considering the ghostly behaviors throughout the film. No spoilers. Anyways I hardly cared as the wheels had already worn out by then.
The whole house and the surrounding shots supposed to be scary were unoriginal and uninspiring. Apart from the twist the flow is monotonous. Then again, not only we have to withstand the illogical twists and turns, but also the bad acting of it two leads. Karan Singh Grover's debut is a misfire with his wooden expressions. While, Bipasha does the same bland screaming, crying and such stuff, nothing new from her forgettable other's like Creature,Aatma,Raaz 3,etc. The characters are mostly one-dimensional lacking any motive. There are many small things and holes which I am too tired to touch upon. The length of the film really makes it a boring experience, its not even so bad that it will make you laugh. No it does not have that angle, takes itself too seriously. Director Bhushan Patel's previous 1920 Evil Returns and Ragini MMS 2 sucked and he does nothing different here. Above all that, the most annoying things where the songs. I can bear a bit romance along with horror but romantic songs? what the hell?!?! That too 4 of them.Neither they were refreshing nor hummable. Thus, nothing works in Alone and there was not once I felt it was entertaining. Literally waste of time. Terrible direction, acting, screenplay and cinematography. Forget quality of those elements, actually they are absent.
Another bad film at the start of 2015 after 'Tevar'. Bipasha Basu must stop with here horror-love , actually Bollywood should give the genre a break. Being neither scary nor funny, Alone is one of the worst horror films I have ever seen. Forget horror, this is probably down into one of the worst ever films I have watched. Highly avoidable.
RATING:[0.5/5]
