Shruti Yarra

Very well made movie. Heart warming, clean and Keeps one engaged. More movies like this one please.

Any movie becomes senseless and absolutely unbearable to watch when the characters keep reacting and take decisions which are very very and I repeat very far from what people in real life would do. Also, it follows the stereotypical jump scares so accurately, that quite a chunk of the movie is predictable. Although at this point the rocking chair moving suddenly, the sleeping child opening eyes suddenly have become so common that we should stop calling them jump scares I guess. But the real let down is in character development and their reactions: The house is haunted and they all know it. So of course when the mom end dad leave because of an emergency (apparently caused by the haunting), the grandmother has to sleep on an entirely different floor from the granddaughters (Like Queen Elizabeth- Have to follow protocol no matter what, right?) but ALSO, decide to check on them in the middle of the night, and of course ends up as dead meat. The daughter in law who wanted to leave the house before all this happened, absolutely INSISTS she wants to stay in it even after the ghost has actually killed a person. Why? No explanation given from the DIL point of view what so ever. May be she’s just curious whom the ghost will kill now. At that point, anything could be going on. The daughter of the family is possessed, going around a weird tree in circles and her feet start bleeding, and the parents just leave her there, chatting leisurely a few feet away like “Ivvani maa intlo roju avve vishayale” types. Running out of time and space, and mostly patience to rant about this silly silly movie, but the movie is full of such unreal people and sometimes hilariously unreal reactions. How did this ever become a hit and get an 8.5 on imdb? An audience who’s ever ready to forgive I guess.

Apart from the plot being predictable and overly twisted for no reason, two things. (1) You don’t show people taking a dump in the toilet even though everyone does it right? just like that, no need to bring such intimate scenes into everything. Does it exist in society, yes, like everything else and in moderation. (2) Secondly, what is with the idea of showing a society so corrupt morally? Not even a single man is shown to be good. Everyone is having some kind of an illicit sexual relationship with everyone else. Really Netflix? Do you come from a society like that? I mean everything exists in the world. The good, the bad, the moderate. But everything has its proportion right? How can it be that everyone is doing some nonsense with someone. I am from India, born and raised in Mumbai which is not a conservative society. And this was hard for me to digest. Get a healthy perspective. Don’t resort to cheap tactics just to sensationalize and get views. One star for acting. Story and screenplay: would give zero stars if could.

Great watch, keeps you hooked. They caught the working of everyday people and their life beautifully. Brilliant acting by the entire cast. More importantly, it’s take on society in general and why we do the things we do, is portrayed beautifully. Specially resonated with the dialogue that says “people throwing plastic on beaches don’t do it because they want to kill fishes or ecological systems. They do it simply because they can.” As long as society allows it, things will happen not necessarily because someone wants to cause deliberate harm, but because it causes some minute convenience over doing the right thing. Has certain moments when you feel it’s a little too dramatized, but that’s expected with anything on TV.

What is going on in this movie? How does the psychiatrist for the kid know everything about their visas and papers? How does he know what exactly was the dad’s mission? Like nothing is classified? Even my mom was like how come they made this in such a brainless fashion 😆. How does the psychiatrist have access to whether the wife was cleared by CIA or not? They made it look like the whole of CIA is a literally a one man show. This one guy (who’s a child psychiatrist), is their only point of contact for everything. Matlab kuch bhi ho raha hai. Poor editing. You can skip entire parts that are boring and don’t add anything to the plot. Same with songs: really poor and add nothing. Fast forward. The movie had an engaging start, but at the end of the movie, you’re like why did I spend two hours on this? Tabu still looks great and acts good. Rest of it, pass.