Ek Thi Daayan- Movie Review by Shoby
2.5 stars out of 5
Kannan Iyer was lucky enough to have likes of maverick Vishal Bharadwaj and Ekta Kapoor as the producers for her debut directorial venture. Vishal is known to make films with unique ideas having powerful themes and hard sequences. Of late, Ekta has also managed to make some nice attempts in film making. Together, the both give us a super natural thriller, the genre, Vishal has never tempred upon.
Recent bulk production of horror/thriller genre' based movies (to name some of them raaz 3, murder 3, 3g, aatma, 1920 evil returns etc) has once again provided the audience an oppurtunity to witness some spooky stories on big screen and Ek Thi Daayan is no difference, as far as, the theme is concerned.
On the same time, it is a real unique product, that never tries to haunt u by showing meaningless so-called horor elements. What makes it different is its absolutely unique plot. Stories of daayans and churails have been one of the aspect, our generation has grown up listening to. Our daadis and naanis used to tell us the tales, in which, daayans used to roam around in the nights, in search of children to eat them up (now sounds a bit non-serious). Almost same sort of story is, what ETD is all about.
It is a very strong storyline embedded with some real powerful sequences. Although, at places it becomes quite predictable (especially the climax) but u really fix ur eyes to the screen, till the whole thing ends.
One thing that pinched me during the film is its duration. Some useless narrations do make it a bit lengthy and u seriously wish, how better it would be, if it was edited a bit more wisely.
Here, I would really want to specially mention the goodness of back ground score. Nodoubt, it is very unique and fresh. Imran Hashmi has once again proved his excellence over acting, while Konkona and Huma have also performed their parts well. Kalki did not have much to do, but she completed her assognmebt quite good.
On the whole, it is a good one time watch. Go to witness Imran's great acting and cherish the old stories of daayans.
2.5 stars out of 5
Kannan Iyer was lucky enough to have likes of maverick Vishal Bharadwaj and Ekta Kapoor as the producers for her debut directorial venture. Vishal is known to make films with unique ideas having powerful themes and hard sequences. Of late, Ekta has also managed to make some nice attempts in film making. Together, the both give us a super natural thriller, the genre, Vishal has never tempred upon.
Recent bulk production of horror/thriller genre' based movies (to name some of them raaz 3, murder 3, 3g, aatma, 1920 evil returns etc) has once again provided the audience an oppurtunity to witness some spooky stories on big screen and Ek Thi Daayan is no difference, as far as, the theme is concerned.
On the same time, it is a real unique product, that never tries to haunt u by showing meaningless so-called horor elements. What makes it different is its absolutely unique plot. Stories of daayans and churails have been one of the aspect, our generation has grown up listening to. Our daadis and naanis used to tell us the tales, in which, daayans used to roam around in the nights, in search of children to eat them up (now sounds a bit non-serious). Almost same sort of story is, what ETD is all about.
It is a very strong storyline embedded with some real powerful sequences. Although, at places it becomes quite predictable (especially the climax) but u really fix ur eyes to the screen, till the whole thing ends.
One thing that pinched me during the film is its duration. Some useless narrations do make it a bit lengthy and u seriously wish, how better it would be, if it was edited a bit more wisely.
Here, I would really want to specially mention the goodness of back ground score. Nodoubt, it is very unique and fresh. Imran Hashmi has once again proved his excellence over acting, while Konkona and Huma have also performed their parts well. Kalki did not have much to do, but she completed her assognmebt quite good.
On the whole, it is a good one time watch. Go to witness Imran's great acting and cherish the old stories of daayans.
Imran Hashmi........ <3
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