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Roohi Movie Review: O Stree Kal Mat Aana! – koimoi

Posted on March 11, 2021

Roohi Film Assessment Ranking: 2.5/5 Stars (Two and half stars)

Star Solid: Rajkummar Rao, Varun Sharma, Janhvi Kapoor, Manav Vij, Sarita Joshi

Director: Hardik Mehta

What’s Good: Positively not what you’d hope to be good, however performances, background rating and so on.

What’s Unhealthy: I had hopes!

Lavatory Break: You may wanna be there for a very long time

Watch or Not?: Solely at house when it comes on OTT

Consumer Ranking:

The story begins with the montage of footage shot by an American reporter, who then is invited to shoot the village Bagadpur’s custom – bridenapping (or as stated, ‘pakdai shaadi’ within the movie). Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattani Qureshi (Varun Sharma) are skilled bridenappers till they’re requested to abduct Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor). A professional tip: When your father is carrying two of your photos to explain your seems to be to the police, telling them, “Kabhi kabhi yeh aisi bhi dikhti hai,” you positively want to interchange your father.

The story’s central crux revolves round two of essentially the most idiosyncratic folks kidnapping a woman trapped with a mudiya-pairi (some desi type of spirit) attempting to find a physique to reside in without end. The issue begins when each Bhawra and Kattani fall in love with the identical lady… however no, there’s a twist. That’s what the remainder of the story is all about.

Roohi Film Assessment: Script Evaluation

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehra’s story is a wonderful instance of how the proportion of horror & comedy must be on-point in a horredy/horror-comedy. As a result of regardless of having a dependable set of performers, the right stability is continually lacking. Right here, the storytellers needed to deal with two completely different genres. Within the alternative of holding sure issues and letting sure go away, the issues gone outnumber these which keep. Like, with the intention to preserve the comical facet, the writers restrict the ‘horrific’ parts to the extent we’ve been by so many occasions now.

There comes a excessive second in the course of the interval level, boosting the useless hopes. That’s once I thought the makers have lastly flexed the bat to hit a house run, however it was simply strike-two. It’s not all ‘Mondays’ for the story because it’s crammed with some novel story-angles by no means explored in Bollywood. However every part boils down to 1 factor – is it intriguing sufficient? It has few superb jokes up its sleeves, however sadly, that’s about it. Amalendu Chaudhary’s cinematography is simply too hazy. Not saying he forgot to squeak-clean his lens, however it’s simply not clear. It captures the jumpscares fairly properly, however apart from that, every part is simply too primary.
Huzefa Lokhandwala’s modifying wanted extra modifying.

Roohi Film Assessment: Star Efficiency

Rajkummar Rao did set a benchmark for himself in Ludo; he now wants an especially good film to match that, and Roohi isn’t that. He continues to mess around along with his accent, and I’ve a combined bag of emotions about the identical. The accent is each a optimistic and a detrimental factor for the performances of all three leads. It’s completely different, however it isn’t simple to pay attention too. There have been scenes the place the audio was so muddled you couldn’t perceive something.

Varun Sharma is the MVP right here as he is part of each humorous scene within the movie. There’s no good humour with out Varun, and that claims lots about what he might usher in as a performer. This solely serves as a teaser to what Rohit Shetty might extract from him in Cirkus.

It’s a dual-duel for Janhvi Kapoor as she’s spirit as properly, and she or he has nothing a lot to do as her human type. She excels within the horror parts, a particular shout-out Nikita Kapoor’s ‘nerve-racking’ prosthetics and make-up.

Manav Vij hasn’t given an opportunity to behave to his potential, quite than he’s wasted into portraying a brainless-brawny. Sarita Joshi proved why she’s referred to as the grasp of pure appearing in only a few minutes she received.

Roohi Film Assessment: Path, Music

Final yr, round this time (sixth March), director Hardik Mehta garnered many praises for Kaamyaab. This undoubtedly provides as ‘one thing completely different’ in Mehta’s portfolio, however it gained’t maintain any potential worth. This script was so near doing one thing distinctive, however as a substitute, it falls for its entice.

Ketan Sodha’s thumping background rating surprises to be among the finest technical issues of all. It elevates even a non-scary scene which is the way it ought to be. Not one of the songs click on.

Roohi Film Assessment: The Final Phrase

All stated and executed, Roohi has its moments, however they’re only a few to label this as an entertaining product total. The appearing division shines, and the others stay to be in between from dangerous to reasonably good.