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Agyaat |
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| Movie: | Agyaat |
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Nitin Reddy, Priyanka Kothari,Gautam Rode, Rasika Duggal, Ishteyak Khan Ishrat Ali, Ravi Kale, Harvey Rosemeyer, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Joy Fernandes |
| Director: | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Music Director: | Imran, Bapi, Tutul |
| Lyricist: | Bapi, Tutul |
| Cinematography: | Surjodeep Ghosh |
| Editor: | Nipun Gupta |
| Action: | Javed Eijaz |
| Sound: | Dwarak Warrier, Leslie Fernandes |
| Story Writer: | Nilesh Girkar, Puneet Gandhi |
| Executive Producer / Co-Producer | Deven Khote, Zarina Mehta, Ram Mirchandani Sheel Nimbalkar, Siddharth Roy Kapur |
| Producer: | Ram Gopal Varma, Ronnie Screwvala |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Our Ratings | 1.5 out of 5 |
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Movie Review
(Posted on: July 13, 2009)
Promoted as an adventurous thriller, Agyaat is thrillingly disastrous. What made sense in the entire movie was the cinematography and the background score. The plot was unconventional, all credit goes to Ram Gopal Verma for that, but again what lacked, is a gripping execution. The director took the title too seriously and kept the evil force persisting in the jungle, responsible for all the killings, 'unknown' till the end. Probably he wanted to daunt the audiences with the funny spooky sounds, but miserably failed in his endeavor.
Agyaat has the setting of a complete film within it, which has title number in its credit. It revolves around a film unit, which goes deep into the jungle to shoot a film. The crew consisted of only ten people, and adding to the oddity they end up shooting just one item number, that too in an indoor set. The characters, with low budgets and high decibel levels, are equally unconventional. The director has tried to attach bizarreness in their characters, but that made no difference in the plot.
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 Talking about the characters, you have a golden producer with a golden phone,(Ishrat Ali), who tries hard to bring humor in the plot with his South Indian accent, but generates no laughter. The capricious director(Howard Rosemeyer), too has stoned expressions. The most annoying characters in the whole film are the jungle guide (Joy Fernandes), with his choked up laughter, and Sharman(Gautam Rode), the hero who keeps throwing tantrums. All that he is concerned about is his muscles and his heroine(Priyanka Kothari), who is as expressionless as her director in the film. The one who takes the applause is the spot boy of the hero, who is a stark egotist.
Coming to the soundtracks, the less said, the better. Infact, they have been horrifying, toppled with the awful singing. One can watch Agyaat, for the innovative ways of killing people as conceived by the director. This horror flick gives plenty of scope to laugh at it. In the end the actual hero (Nitin Reddy), amidst all the killings, finally gets time to confess his love to the leading lady, who in turn is more than happy to accept his proposal. Now, when did the lady fall in love with him? Reason? Agyaat!
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The movie tried to depict the many manifestations of fear, which cannot be caused only due to ghosts, but a lot of fiction can be generated through mysterious sounds which creates anxiety. The movie also explores the stringent inter-personal relationships which alter, the moment fear of death grabs the protagonists.
The film is loosely inspired by “The Blair Witch Project”, as confessed by Ram Gopal Verma, but it stands no where near to that. One comes out of the movie hall, extremely ridiculed and duped.
One certainly feels like crying, “I am a movie lover, get me out of this jungle.”
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