Monday, April 26, 2010

Phoonk 2


Phoonk 2 directed by debutante director Milind Gadagkar who earlier wrote Phoonk, manages to pack in more chills and thrills and keeps you terrified most of the time than the first one. A sequel works if it goes one step ahead of the first part, in terms of content mainly. But Phoonk 2 doesn't take a step forward, but a step backwards. The idea is a master stroke and had writer turned director Milind Gadagkar handled it right, Phoonk 2 would've scared the daylights out of you. But the film looks incomplete and the viewer keeps wondering, where did the spirit disappear?

Phoonk ended with Madhu (Ashwini Kalsekar) who practices black magic on Rajiv's (Sudeep) family getting killed by tantrik Manja (Zakir Hussain). Phoonk 2 begins with some time having passed by since then. The old granny has gone off to a tirth yaatra and Rajiv takes his family to a vacation at his newly purchased beach house in Alibaug. But little does he know that his troubles have not really ended but multiplied in fact.

Dead Madhu's ghost comes to haunt his family. Her spirit enters Rajiv's wife Aarti's (Amruta Khanwilkar) body. It aims to kill all those people who are dear to Rajiv including his daughter Raksha (Ahsaas Channa) and sister Arushi (Neeru) who has come down from the US with her hubby Ronnie (Amit Sadh). How Rajiv fights back Madhu and the life threat on his near and dear ones forms the rest of the film.

Acting wise, Sudeep yet again did a right job as a helpless father. Amruta Kahnvilkar is excellent in a difficult role. Ahsaas Channa is a bit irritated. The little boy playing her brother is good Neeru Singh and Amit Sadh don't get much scope. Ashwini Kalsekar is just superb. She succeeds in scaring the daylights out of you yet again. Jeeva playing the tantric is effective in his small part.

On the whole, Phoonk 2 is a film with a good idea but suffers due to its weak writing. Not a good film to spend your time and money on it.

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