Wonderful character development!

An Exercise In Nonsense

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Its really amazing to see what Hindi film directors mainly led by Vikram Bhatt, are doing with the Horror genre in the industry since RGV stopped making his scary flicks. Certainly they are fearlessly declaring the audience nothing more than fools loving this particular genre, who can be served anything in the name of horror along with few good songs and intense sexual scenes performed by some good faces. In fact that seems to be the only guideline to make these films and KHAMOSHIYAN is yet another absurdity tried with a silly conviction on the screen promoted well before its release through some bold press conferences.To accept the impact, I was really impressed the way Sapna Pabbi was handling the press confidently before the release answering the questions asked on her sexual scenes so willingly. It really looked like as if they have a good project in hands and pretty sure of its success in advance. However the 2 hour film simply proved that it was over- confidence instead of confidence and perhaps an intentional coaching provided by the Bhatts that the girl was speaking so bravely about her major break and the bold scenes in front of the journalists.Beginning on an all seen before, lame note the film keeps moving on a routine, boring path till the interval and one simply feels nothing watching the sudden emotional outburst between the lead pair without any believable justification given in its mediocre screenplay. The second half brings in the demon and the twist but a hangover of cult films like THE EXORCIST and Hitchcock's PSYCHO is clearly visible used in a pretty lousy and unimpressive manner by the debutant director Karan Darra. With all ordinary graphical representations of a butterfly or a dog it fails in the cinematography or background score department too gaining the only goods marks in picturising the fine tracks. Moreover its every location/set or art direction strongly reminded me of the team's earlier venture CREATURE too because of the clear similarities.As far as performances are concerned Ali Fazal is a good actor but gets nothing great to do in this badly written film. Gurmeet Chaudhury also remains handicapped due to the short role offered without any meat and Sapna Pabbi looks sensuous, displaying her sex appeal well but does nothing more than that unfortunately. Probably she might be able to perform much better in an intense emotional drama with those appealing eyes keeping in mind her better act in the TV series 24. Anyway having such a limited star cast KHAMOSHIYAN once again reveals that Vikram is vaguely making his films on a set, safe format ensuring minimum losses if not profits with music proving to be the backbone of his projects as always.Hence following the same pattern, the only USP of KHAMOSHIYAN is its soundtrack alone with few fine composition and lyrics led by the title song that sadly comes in the film just at the wrong moment. An early sequence in it has the famous "Aayega Aanawala" song too playing in the backdrop. But the film simply has got no merit to be associated with that cult classic MAHAL still remembered for his haunting music and entertaining suspense even after six decades.In short neither sex nor music was able to stop me from taking few quick naps in the theater and I am still wondering why was this made and for whom?(On a lighter note : A scene in the film had a strange board reading "Hindu Shamshaan Bhoomi"……… now certainly that needs to be opposed on secular grounds! :))

What on earth are these movie-makers thinking?!? Just put in few hot scenes with romantic songs and people will merrily watch the film with their mouths open? Forget about horror, this film glorifies the cheap mentality of Indian film makers. In fact I am the biggest fool to waste my time on these crap films. Horror genre is losing its hold day by day not only in Bollywood but also in Hollywood. I know it is difficult to bring up an entirely original horror story these days, but at least deliver a few scares (even jump scares would do).Here a writer Kabir (Habib Faisal) goes into the wilderness of Jammu to write a novel. No prize for guessing that he stays in a creepy lakeside lodge. The lodge is managed by a single woman Meera (Sapna Pabbi) whose husband Jaidev(Gurmeet Chaudhary) is ill. Soon our writer starts experiencing spooky activities like seeing scary reflections in glass, opening doors, etc. which were more comedy than scary. The wheels wear off even before the ride begins. The suspense and reveal behind the scary events was hilarious. Actually number of times I laughed at the scary moments is more than the number of times I was scared. Not a single moment was scary. By the time we reached the climax ridiculed with pathetic CGI and absurd ho-hums I was least bothered.With forced romance and songs (a few good ones thanks to Arijit Singh), Khamoshiyan is just another horrex film of Bollywood which I should not have bothered to watch. After the horrendous 'Alone' just a few weeks ago, we have another one in the same month. How desperate can these film-makers be? 2015 so far has been really pathetic for Bollywood with horrible duds like 'Tevar', 'Alone','Dolly ki Doli','Hawaizaada' and now 'Khamoshiyan'. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time on this crap. RATING: [0.5/5]

Horror and erotic are two different genres and to mix it with romance is not easy. Set in the exotic Kashmir, old guest house, creepy sounds, eerie atmosphere...Khamosiyan had all the elements but somehow it failed to make a long lasting impression. Khamosiyan did that well to the extent of 1st half, but the 2nd half ran out of ideas and looks hurriedly done. Vikram Bhatt's story tries to portray too many in one film. Story builds up at good pace but then started to drag back. Overall an one time watch. It tends to follow usual Bhatt banner horror thriller films. Descent acting, good location, good songs,descent direction. It may or may not work. It is not entirely rubbish ,actually it gives you a breathe from the typical horror genre. But it would have been great had it would add more suspense element in the 2nd half too. On my view if you have 2 hours to spend and you like these kind of stuffs then you should watch it to find out the secrets.

After seeing almost all Korean, French, Swedish, Hollywood thrillers, I cannot expect good n original thrillers from bollywood. But one can vouch for the bhatts for excellent songs n music. I went just for the songs and was pleasantly surprised. The movie kept me on my edge especially in the first half and it was not bad considering the budget n all new comers. The two male lead acted very well. Especially fazal's facial expressions were intense. Better than regular Bollywood, where the producer or actors son just tries to show dancing skills. I mean are they actors or dancers. Better than 90% of Bollywood crap where even if the role or scene or character doesn't demand muscles, our male leads r in 6 packs. Just because the movies budget is low n the producers n actors cannot create buzz by marketing doesn't mean the movie is bad. Hats off to the bhatts for delivering excellent music n songs as always. N again hats off coz the bhatts has given chance to so many new comers. People who likes thrillers should check out memories of murder, the yellow sea, confession of murder, secret in their eyes, SLEEP TIGHT (it cannot get any sicker than this movie, don't worry it doesn't contain gore or sex), killers (2014), headhunters, preservation, the guest, enemy, a most wanted man, dream home, a perfect getaway, the pact, 13 sins, maniac, wither, closed circuit, clean skin, blue ruin, merantau warrior, the raid:redemption, district b13, district b13 -ultimatum, trance, pioneer, rampage 1 and 2, last but not least Henry portrait of a serial killer for sheer true psycho acting.