Bhram

First of all its suspense thriller and not Horror, an average story with little predictable twist and turn. Not feel freshness

BHRAM REVIEW :-

OTT platforms haven't seen horror genre in recent time because the genre is not suitable for underage audience. ZEE5 enters into Horror genre with psychological thriller flavour to gift audience something different in not so popular genre. Bhram is haunting, horrifying and chilling experience from the first frame till the last. It also has some logical medical issues as an explanation to the spiritual things and that makes it so realistic.

Bhram is an interesting tale of an interesting character Alisha Khanna played by Kalki Koechlin. A car accident turns Alisha Khanna's life upside down. The bestselling romance writer moves to Shimla to her sister's place in order to start over. Bhumika Chawla plays Ankita Paul (a sister of Alisha) who is living with her husband Peter Paul (Sanjay Suri). Peter has a friend named Pradeep (Eijaz Khan) who is impressed by Alisha's beauty and writing. However, Alisha starts getting visions of a girl. At first, she dismisses it as hallucinations due to her psychological disorder. However, she finds out that the girl had died 20 years ago. On the pretext of writing a book, she starts investigating into the matter and finds striking evidence which otherwise could never be found. Things point to certain prominent people of the place, but then they end up dying one by one. Alisha doesn't know that she has put her own life in danger. How far will one woman go to give justice to a dead girl? The answer lies in that incident which happened 20 years ago. The incident which shall tell the world - The Other Side of Her story.

Kalki Koechlin looks beautiful and delivers thrilling act. Bhumika Chawla, Sanjay Suri, Eijaz Khan, Satydeep Mishra are also brilliant. Costumes of every character are very talky, especially in terrifying scenes in dark light.

Bhram is set and mostly shot in Shimla and the locations are eye pleasing. Cinematography of Vidhushi Tiwari is top notch. Background Music leaves you with jitters and it is so scary that it forces you to jump from your place. Screenplay is engaging because the story keep unfolding the backdrops and new twists. Director Sangeeth Savan tries something different from his regular flow and succeeds. He bounds the gripping story with proper execution and get everything right in important scenes.

Overall, Bhram has haunting story powered by excellent performances by every actor. Locations, background music and frightening scenes takes it one step higher. It keeps you hooked from the start and never loses that grip untill you're blown away at the end. We recommend you to make your weekend thrilling with this one. Catch Bhram streaming from 24 October 2019, only on ZEE5.

Alisha Khanna's (Kalki Koechlin) life turned upside down a year ago due to a road accident that killed her loving husband Yash and her unborn child. She went comatose for sometime and when she revived, she suffered from a partial memory loss and was diagnosed with DID (dissociative identity disorder). Her sister Ankita Paul (Bhumika Chawla) brings her to her idyllic hillside residence in Himachal, hoping that Alisha will recover from her psychological suffering and the writer's block has taken over. It's family time with Ankita, her husband Peter (Sanjay Suri) and their daughter Kritika; Alisha is looking forward to getting back her mojo.

But it doesn't last too long, Alisha starts seeing and feeling the presence of a girl who is trying to tell her something. It's not too long before she is found in the woods, suffering asphyxiation. Simultaneously, a young girl from Kritika's school is found murdered in the woods with a strange wound in her torso - like they have been pierced by a pair of horns. The death brings back the memories of a similar murder 20 years ago, that of another young girl Ayesha - and slowly, skeletons start tumbling out of the cupboard. Prominent people are suddenly in the eye of the storm, and it starts blowing over the Paul family. A local tribal legendary deity, Ukala, shoots to prominence during the investigation.

Bhram doesn't conform to the horror genre. It's a psychological suspense thriller and a murder mystery with a semblance of the supernatural. The events from twenty years ago are intricately related to those unfolding now, and Alisha must was through them, and with the local police, solve the mystery. Kalki is very convincing as Alisha and Bhumika Chawla is solid as support. Sanjay Suri, Satyadeep Misra, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Eijaz Khan weave a canvas of palpable tension, intrigue and suspense. The backdrop of the hills and woods is stunning. Bhram is one of the better suspense productions of recent times, director Sangeeth Sivan, cinematographers Suman Sahu, Vidushi Tiwari and Sandeep Yadav and SFX by Sandeep Kumar Jayaswal are worth an applause.

The story and the overall concept lacks the intelligence. It's one of the many monotonic stories that you a see in most of the movies. The starcast is the only thing that you would like. I was trying to see if the story will ever pick up anything new but till the end couldn't get any new idea. Unfortunately it becomes boring after the first or the second episode.

Could have been better. The plot of series is very interesting and keep you on couch. All the actors in the series were upto mark, esp Kalki.

While few links were weak and unanswered. Like why Father Alfred's girlfriend suicide and what did she want to tell him.

The link of main character, Alisha's accident and loss of memory to 20 years old case has entwined well. The pointing towards the accused changes every episode and quiet convincing.

A short series and a good watch.