Secret Reboot

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Pros- Awesome songs and nothing. Seriously nothing. Cons- Useless exaggerated background music throughout the plot. Except Emraan, either over acting or no acting at all from other casts. Tons of cheesy dialogues. No new scares or thrills only faces and creatures jumping on the screen with a loud scary music which is happening since decades. Very disappointing. Please make some decent Horror. It seems there is nothing left to think in Bollywood after watching 1920 London and Raaz 3. Eagerly waiting for another masterpiece in Bollywood like 1920(2008), Raaz(2001) and Haunted.

Raaz Reboot, a film written and directed by Vikram Bhatt, is the fourth one in the horror film series Raaz. This film is actually a reboot, since it just refreshes our memories of previous Raaz series. It does not bring any novelty in the horror genre from Bhatt Camp. As in all the Bhatt films, the music in this film is really great, which is the only solace. But the songs are not interspersed properly in the screenplay. This horror flick is very much clichéd. The beginning appeared to be promising, but just 15 minutes into the film, the plot seemed very much familiar. It is very easy to predict that who is the antagonist playing the evil spirit. And then the mantras and tantras to drive away the spirits begin, entry of extortionist to kick out the spirit, all looked so much familiar. The film begins with Rehaan (Gaurav Arora) and Shaina (Kriti Kharbanda) relocating to Romania from Mumbai. It was Kriti's insistence that Rehaan should take the new job offer in Romania. Rehaan was not at all keen to take up this offer and shift to Romania, but he finally decides to relocate. This is where he had first met Kriti five years ago, fallen in love, proposed her and decided to get married. The initial shots itself make it clear that there were some strong reasons for Rehaan's uncomfortability in relocating back to Romania. There is some secret behind this. Though they shift, the difference of opinion between Rehaan and Shaina does strain their relationship (this was so illogically portrayed). Then the story unfolds further and gets into predictive mode. Shaina gets to see somebody in the house, she starts feeling the presence of someone in and around her. She is sure that the house is haunted. Various regular patterns of evil spirit's appearance along with special background music follows. Shaina finds it difficult to make Rehaan believe. But Aditya, her ex-boyfriend (Emraan Hashmi) believes Shaina. Together they try to find out answers to their queries. How the identity of the evil spirit is explored? Who is the evil spirit and what is its motive? What could be the secret of Rehaan ? What is the role of Aditya in this film ? How does Rehaan ultimately believe Shaina ? There is no second opinion that one would not find any challenge in finding responses to these queries, since the plot itself is very much predictable. You might have seen all these in previous films of Raaz series – Raaz, Raaz-The Mystery Continues and Raaz 3D. The performance by Kriti is average. Gaurav and Emraan have comparatively lesser screen time but they are good, although nothing much to do. Raaz Reboot is actually a reboot, since it just refreshes our memories of previous Raaz series – Raaz, Raaz-The Mystery Continues and Raaz 3D. It does not bring any novelty in the horror genre from Bhatt Camp. Watch it only if horror intrigues you, but beware of not getting scared at all.

I am giving it a high rating not because of horror, which was obviously not there, but because of its hilarious depiction of what all is wrong with current so called horror movies. A perfect husband neglecting his wife all time to work by sitting idle in office. A perfect wife with no expression except tears and well nothing else. A perfect bad boy, (boy? seems some guys never really grow up, bad? well no idea), who dies with a single hit with a 80's looking laptop. Wow, that laptop must have been a weapon of choice forsome good reason. A single hit kill? Is that a new martial art? Kung Fu Laptop style! With over the top startling background music, horrible make up and especially the conversation between folks just added more and more to its comic sense. With the theater almost empty the laughing of people was loud and clear. It's difficult to know whether its the marketing fault who wrongly advertised a good comedy as horror movie or director's fault who remembered after completing the movie "Ohh! It was suppose to be a horror movie". It would have done better if had been marketed as spoof of 1920.