Darna Zaroori Hai

Caught the movie today.



Amazing opening, a guy heads over to see Darna Mana Hai, through a graveyard, is not scared at all, claims the movie is bullshit and goes back home via a shortcut - straight through a graveyard. He hears footsteps there. It follows when he walks, stops when he stops. He runs out, with loud footsteps following him, gets out of the graveyard, sees a horrible witch - the one on the poster.







And gets a heart attack and dies.



The footsteps are the loose change in his pocket. The witch is a poster of the movie. The camera freezes on "Darna Zaroori Hai".



Pretty damn clever opening according to me. Pretty damn downhill from there. There is the customary item number, then the same format of friends exploring the jungle is used from the prequel, but this time around, they are all little kids. You do not want anything happening to the kids, you know it will when they come across an old bungalow, and that is a clever thing to do. An old naani starts telling them ghost stories there.



No1: Amitabh Bacchan is the teacher of Ritesh Deshmukh, his student who cannot understand the erratic behavior of his teacher, who seems to be scared of a man roaming around the house. Ritesh cannot spot anyone, and Amitabh shows him the mirror, and the man is reflected in it. No punch in this one.



No2: No 2 is a Bipasha - Makarand Deshpande - Arjun Rampal story. Copy of the Vivek Oberoi story. Bipasha and Makarand try to scare Arjun, who turns out to be the ghost himself.



No3: Sonil Shetty, Sonali Kulkarni, Rajpal Yadav. Absolutely nothing scary in this one. YAdav tries weird ways to sell Sunil a life insurance police, Sunil gets irritated, they have a fight, a bullet goes through Yadav. They should have really put in a totally different story here.



No4: Anil Kapoor, a director, dies of a heart attack after Mallika Sherawat pretends to be a host to inspire his horror flick under the direction of Anil's friend. Again, no punch, nothing scary at all.



No5: Bunch of donnos (Isha Koppikar?) a girl killed by her inlaws seeks revenge through the medium of some random guy driving. The girl gets into a body of a policeman as well, confusing everyone. Pretty scary, and this is a good story.



Either they should have made all the segments as good as the first one, and based on the same lines, where everyone is scared for no reason whatsoever, or they should have used something like Darna Mana Hai to actually scare people outright with ghosts and things like that. The prequel was better.


Oh yeah, forgot



No6: The kids keep dying when they go to fetch water or pee - killed by the naani, who is also a ghost. The police are baffled the next morning, but the naani continues to tell the kids stories in the ghost-world.