1920: Horrors of the Heart

The cinematography is bad, screenplay is bad, sound editing and recording is terrible! The audio is clipping and cracking everywhere! The CGI is worst. Overall a disaster.

This ruined the series 1920. This is worst than a school project, it looks like somebody just tried to make a film just because of having access to the film makers! The director has made a mess, this looks like a pretentious scenic video shoot converted as a horror film.

Only the two 1920 versions are better. Rest of them are bad, and this one is purely horrible in each and every aspect, the filming, the story, the sound, the screenplay and the direction.

With subpar VFX, outdated scare sounds, unnecessarily added sound effect made this movie one of the worst movies. Poor direction of Krishna Bhatt has made the stereotype of nepotism more strong. There is no match between the dialogues, costumes and the era in which this period movie is depicted.

With type TV serial mindset it has made our eyes sore no hint of horror with certainty with 10 on 10 cliche.

This is the worst part of 1920 series. With unnecessary drama, music, it makes the movie most unbearable for watchers. This movie diminished all expections for a good movie. With cliche theme & nepotism, it makes no sense why this movie is still running on theatres.

Let's begin with a fact. 1920 now is the first hindi franchise in india to have 5 films in it even before bigger franchises like golmaal or housefull could achieve it . But it comes at what cost?

1920 started as a franchise that promised really good horror . The first film is still remembered for Rajneesh Duggal reciting the entire Hanuman chalisa to fend off the spirits . The second film of Aftab was again based on possession, but had a nice sweet story in it. Then onwards, the franchise went from bad (1920 London ) to worse (1921) to comedy genre (1920: horrors of the heart).

The problem is that the treatment and concept of these films have not been changed one bit. They still rely on evil spirit possession to scare 2023 audience when everyone knows it's now an outdated concept. Yet again, a spirit willing to take revenge possesses a girl to hurt her mother and all this is aided by Avika Gor who is in the illusion that her father (the spirit) was wronged so she helps her father's spirit to take revenge but the reality is something everyone, even a kid can sense from a light year away .

The films outdated treatment, the unintentionally funny scenes when Aditi gets possessed and finally the climax all bring down this film . The climax my god is so hilarious that it might make you laugh more than an actual comedy films genre. Example: a possessed Aditi in the climax sits on a chair like a king and says " bohot din se safai nahi hua hai, islie itne cockroaches hai" .... I laughed so hard at that scene .

1920 means everything has got to be foggy all around. Why man? Without that fog also horror can be created , it just needs skills that makers don't have. We seriously need someone other than the Bhatt's to understand horror and give this genre new life in India because even the Bhatt's daughter can't do it.

Being a low budget film , the VFX is expected to be low class and it is. One thing i like about Bhatt's is that they tend to give new comers chances but sadly it is in poor films. Avika Gor is no new face . She's one of the most popular faces in TV serial industry but she's not done a Hindi film before I guess so her debut in Bollywood has not been that great although she did show signs of potential in this film.

One thing that 1920 franchise has managed to maintain a standard is it's songs. There are some really good songs in the film. Lori is really beautiful song .

Overall, i feel 1920 should not be stretched any further it's already brought bad name to it's franchise through its previous 2 films and this one takes it even further down . If you do plan to stretch, reinvent the concept of these films please.

It's a horror movie that isn't scary in the least.

First of all- WHERE THE HELL DID THEY SHOOT THIS? I kept wondering during the entire movie- WHY?? Just why didn't they use normal sets anywhere in the movie, like previous 1920 movies? Just to save some money spent on a real set?

Not just the horror scenes, It felt like they shot the entire movie using green screens. Even normal scenes seemed like I am watching some actors move around in a CGI house, a CGI forest, even a CGI Hotel !?!? Who came up with the bad idea of avoiding real sets, that person needs to be fired immediately!

The reason overused CGI made me hate the film is because absolutely nothing in the movie felt real. If shot in a good location, a terrible story can make a movie very watchable.

The best recent example of this being Khamoshiyan. Its story was terrible, but I'd still watch that movie again just for its breathtaking scenes shot in South Africa(and of course the hum-worthy music). What the makers did with this movie feels like a low point of filmmaking in Bollywood.

The songs in this movie were forgettable too, except for the mother's lullaby.

Mahesh Bhatt was one of the writers, I assume he was drunk when he wrote this senseless script.

Only Rahul Dev, Avika Gor and Ketaki Kulkarni seemed to be taking their work seriously. Barkha Bisht sure looks beautiful but her expressions felt wooden. Avtar Gill's and Danish Pandor's acting was as useless as their characters.

In my opinion this is the worst installment in the franchise. Do not waste your time on this movie. Save yourself!

Where should I start from ?

I couldn't even complete the entire movie...it was such a pain to my eyes...I really feel sad for Mahesh Bhatt...The downfall of Bollywood is at its peak...I can assure you that even if the movie fails to create horror in your heart, it DEFINITELY will create horror to your eyes and ears and also to your pocket.

I can guarantee you that the vfx of age old THE EPIC series Hatim is way better than this piece of s**t ...

Never In my life I have given reviews but this piece of s**t compelled me to do so...I simply want to say kudos to the makers of the film as even if they terribly failed in making this movie...they have succeeded in giving a pain to the eyes of the audience.