An Honest Review Of ‘Raaz’: A Story Of A ‘Spooky’ Extra-Marital Affair Gone Horribly Wrong | Newsondot
I like Bollywood films, however one factor that I like greater than the film itself is Bollywood’s audacity. And by that, I imply the audacity to make a ‘horror’ movie with out an oz. of horror in it.
We’re speaking in regards to the 2002 launch Raaz that marked itself as probably the most poorly-made horror movies in Bollywood and was satirically the ‘secret’ to why Bipasha Basu can be typecast into doing roles identical to this.
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The film begins with a gaggle of buddies taking part in spin the bottle in the course of a jungle for some tousled purpose. Because the bottle lands on a lady named Nisha, she outright refuses to kiss the individual in entrance of her, and in her defence, we don’t blame her.
After all, the ‘no’ doesn’t deter the man’s spirits who then runs after her to say the kiss.
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As the 2 run off into the center of a jungle at night time, as a result of what’s extra romantic than taking part in disguise and search in a abandoned forest and welcoming bother, Nisha begins experiencing one thing otherworldly.
One way or the other, she will get possessed, assaults the man, and is rushed to the hospital. There, simply earlier than dying, her voice and her face fully change, scaring the shit out of the medical doctors who then name a professor to check out the psycho (and now lifeless) affected person.
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Professor Agni Swaroop (Ashutosh Rana), declares her to have been possessed by an evil spirit, who’s out for revenge.
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Reduce to the lifetime of Sanjana Dhanraj (Bipasha Basu) and Aditya Dhanraj (Dino Morea) the place within the first itself Aditya depicts himself as a self-absorbed prick who’s busy ignoring his spouse at a celebration. Sanjana, alternatively, downs a drink in anger and leaves the celebration in frustration. On her means again, she meets with an accident after she hears a scary voice in her head.
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Within the hospital, Sanjana asks her good-for-nothing husband for a divorce however he, like another poisonous man in denial, suggests going to Ooty for a trip as an alternative to work on their marriage. Sanjana, who at this level simply desires him to close up, says sure.
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In Ooty, whereas they’re attempting to reconcile, Sanjana begins experiencing bizarre issues. Listening to voices of a girl shouting within the forest, poorly directed supernatural parts right here and there which might be something however scary. Aditya, alternatively, is busy gaslighting her into believing that it’s the sleeping drugs which might be making her paranoid.
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Not satisfied, Sanjana tries to additional poke her nostril the place it doesn’t belong as a result of merely this a lot jump-scare is just not doing it for her.
Whereas probing round the home, Sanjana reaches her earlier caretaker’s home, Robert, who had vanished one positive day after he additionally began listening to the sort of voices Sanjana does. Secure to say, she shits her pants and decides it’s time to contain others.
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Her good friend Priya takes her to Professor Swaroop who agrees to go to Sanjana’s home. Sensing an evil spirit of their midst, the professor additional scares the shit out of Sanjana who frantically disrupts Aditya’s assembly to inform him about what occurred.
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An irritated and embarrassed Aditya shuns away from the beliefs of the Professor and decides it’s finest to return to Mumbai. Resulting from a landslide they cannot, which is when Aditya decides to go alone and are available again to gather Sanjana later.
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This provides Sanjana sufficient alone time to summon spirits and nearly get everybody killed, as a result of what else is a jilted spouse to do in a vacation dwelling, proper?
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Going to the identical spot the place Nisha (the grownup taking part in disguise n search) was attacked, she finds a revolver. It seems the revolver belonged to a colonel who had a daughter, Malini, within the psychological asylum. His daughter who had run away a number of different occasions, presumably took the revolver together with her on the day she vanished and by no means got here again.
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Utilizing this info to derive nothing wise, Sanjana decides to speak to the spirit.
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As she summons the spirit, she learns, and in essentially the most pathetic, sudden and spookiest means, that her dick of a husband was having an affair.
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Upon a nasty confrontation, Aditya admits to the affair and tries to save lots of face by saying how he by no means deliberate on leaving Sanjana, regardless of being requested to take action by Malini. Such love, a lot wow.
Romance = 100%
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Malini, who had crossed over to the sting after being rejected (as a result of on this society saying no is solely unacceptable) shoots herself to border Aditya. Clearly, she hadn’t thought it by as a result of very conveniently, Aditya and the caretaker – Robert bury her physique within the forest and put this entire factor behind them.
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Besides, Malini comes again, this time as a manipulative spirit whose plan is to kill Aditya and die fortunately ever after. Sanjana, Priya and Dr Swaroop resolve to go after Aditya to assist him, nonetheless, Malini’s spirit takes the type of Sanjana and fools Aditya into coming together with her.
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The spirit makes them fall into an accident and Aditya is hospitalized. Dr Swaroop tells Sanjana that the one option to cease her is by burning Malini’s physique that has been buried within the forest, and so as soon as once more, they go into the nest of evil.
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Because the three battle to seek out the physique, the spirit is attacking them left proper and centre and finally kills Dr Swaroop to take his type and assaults Sanjana and Priya.
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As they’re preventing for his or her life, fairly poorly I need to say, Sanjana finds Robert’s physique casually hanging from a tree and one way or the other, with no tact and pure luck, pours kerosene over Malini’s lifeless physique and burns her.
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All this to save lots of a mendacity, dishonest prick within the hospital, to whom Sanjana fortunately goes again to after having simply been concerned in one thing so paranormal.
The Finish.
