There seems to be only two genres which are penchant to RGV, underworld and horror. He redeems himself with an "underworld" outing for every mistake he commits in an "horror".
§ Sudeep:: The new protégé'. Quite promising – bears shades of Manoj Bajpai.
§ Amruta Khanvilkar:: From Zee Cinestars Ki Khoj to RGV camp, she has come a long way.
§ Ashish Channa:: The kids are watching too much horror programs and it clearly shows.
§ Ashwini Kalsekar:: Scary portrayal but at times over the top (and a bit amusing in few scenes!). Same for the actor who played her husband.
§ The lady who played the Mother's part was quite natural .
§ Lillette Dubey & KK Raina:: Characterization was a bit skewed, inadequately fleshed out.
§ Zakir Hussain:: The star performer and carries his role quite effectively.
Background score is not too loud – thankfully.
The movie bears RGV stamp all over
and the weird camera angles come as a part of the package.
Raat, Bhoot, Darling, Vaastushastra & the Darna series - reminds me of the story of the spider who refuses to give up. RGV is enamoured by Alfred Hitchcock/ Stanley Kubrick who merely used narration and background score as tools to play with the minds of the audience and create a horror sans blood and gore . Phoonk is yet another attempt to set a similar benchmark on the home ground.
What are you waiting for? Bring on Shabri too..... we have the gut to digest that as well.
