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Cast:
Nitin Reddy, Nisha Kothari, Gautam Rode,
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Ishrat Ali |
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Year:
2009 |
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Music:
Imran, Bapi, Tutul |
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Lyrics:
Prashant Pandey, Sandip Singh, Sarim Momin |
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Story: Nilesh Girkar, Puneet Gandhi |
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Editor:
Nipun Gupta |
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Banner:
UTV Motion Pictures |
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Producer:
Ram Gopal Verma |
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Director:
Ram Gopal Verma |
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| Film in a
film, a concept done to death by Bollywood, comes back with
'Agyaat'. A bunch of people, approximately nine of them,
pack their bags to shoot for a movie in the dense forests.
It must have been a real low budget movie they set out to
make as there is just one cameraman, one stunt guy, one
hero, one heroine, one director, two assistant directors and
a producer (and for a strange reason no make up person or
hairstylist for the heroine but an assistant for the starry
and arrogant hero). Anyways, they all head to shoot in the
natural habitat and finally reach a jungle which has one
inhabitant, who is now the unit's guide. As fate has it, the
camera is down for a couple of days and to while away time,
the group, looking for some adventure, goes into the dense
forest for having fun at the pretext of their guide. What
follows is the sequential death of the crew one by one in a
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Priyanka Kothari plays Aasha, a filmstar (and
irritates you to the core by calling Sharman,
Bhaiyya a zillion times on purpose) who is cast
opposite Gautam Rode aka Sharman Kapoor, the Tantrum
King; hyper, angry young man Ishteyak plays Laxman
and is at the receiving end from his beefcake muscle
guy Sharman; Harvey Rosemeyer plays JJ, the creative
film director and Nitin Kumar Reddy plays Sujal his
assistant; And Joy Fernandes is the stone faced Setu,
the official forest guide. |
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Amidst the jungle there are two tracks going on at
the same time, one is a love square between Priyanka, Nitin,
Gautam and Rasika (Sameera) and one which has ego clashes
between the starry head Gautam and the rest (especially the
stunt guy Rakka, played by Ravi Kale, who eventually kills
Gautam). As if the tension of solving the mystery of the
unknown killer isn't enough for the audience that Ram Gopal
Verma plays the track of the love stories and nagging fights
between people side by side.
The songs seem
to be just thrust into the movie meaninglessly, and there is
also a remake of the popular song 'kahi deep jale kahi dil'
in the most tasteless manner. So is the scene where brave
girl Priyanka prefers to work out in an unknown jungle in a
skimpy skirt and top, the camera almost maneuvering over
her, sometimes from in between her thighs or at times to her
non flat tummy. Cinematographer Surjodeep Ghosh must have
had a gala time shooting the entire movie from weird angles.
Sometimes panning the camera into oblivion, at times
shooting just the feet, zooming in, zooming out and blurring
out, in fact he even does at 360 degrees a couple of times.
Just a word of caution for those planning to sit too close
to the screen, as these images might just make you wanna
throw up. Amar Mohile does a good job with the background
score as he at times successfully scares you for a second or
so but one wonders if the alien, or the unknown sound,
resembles that of a car brake, coupled with some technical
sounds? Wouldn't it have been easier to just have some wild
calls? |
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Ramu
fails to deliver thrills and the film looks
amateurish. When Setu dies, he is shot from a
blurring scene, making it quite unclear to the
viewer about his fate, though there is a relief from
the audience after his death as Setu's dead
expressions and weird laugh was irritating rather
than scary, and he was definitely not bearable more
than that in the movie. Whilst JJ's death looked
like a foggy, bubbly scene from the eyes of a
'Predator', where he is lifted by this unknown power
into the sky and then killed mysteriously. |
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The direction has too many glitches and the plot has
loopholes. The 'trying to be different and unusual'
does not work as the story is so predictable that
you almost know that the only people to survive
would be Priyanka and Nitin. In one scene during the
climax Ramu almost reveals the so called 'Agyaat'
when it follows the lead actor from underground with
leaves crackling all over it, reminding you of
'Tremors', the Hollywood movie, but Ramu leaves it
at that, making you wonder that probably he himself
did not quite have a description of the 'Agyaat' to
be able to create one, so it was better for him not
to exercise his creativity and let the 'Agyaat'
remain unknown.
The waterfall scene is the funniest as the body
double used for Priyanka Kothari is a man in a wig,
and it is quite hilarious that you just do not seem
to realize when the couple fall from the dreaded 30
feet odd waterfall to a safe place in the lake,
unscathed, all within a blink of the eye. Needless
to say, all the actors had good scope of over acting
and making it all look like a spoof rather than a
spook. All in, all Ramu fails to deliver or should
we say is successful in making another laughable
film, maybe he should rent more Hollywood DVDs.
Watch 'Is Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao' instead at home,
it is scarier and less amusing. |
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