Starting 1920, Vikram Bhat has taken to the genre of the super natural a little too much for my comfort actually. First 1920 then Shaapit: The Cursed and then the mother of all “Oh save my life” movies called Haunted 3D (notice that I am consistent with the naming of the movies as well. This time however, he hasn’t directed it but produced yet another super natural movie which uses words like “medium” and “bhagwaan ka bheja hua banda” (someone sent by God) like there is no tomorrow. This one has to do with a psychic with definite inspiration from some Hollywood movie or the other which I am not able to recollect (so much for being someone who reviews movies). Basically it is not anything that we haven’t seen before.
The story revolves around Dr. Kabir Malhotra (Rajneesh Duggall) is a name that figures in a list of “Asians who rocked Europe”. Now how is that for a list to be in? Too cool in the Vikram Bhatt world I am sure. Anyways, he is well and truly in love and also married to Sia (Roshni Chopra). Sia is a lawyer and is applying to be a professor in a local university in Newcastle. That’s where they stay. Kabir is a doc alright but he is also one hell of a late latif. He has always made Sia wait for all their dates and on the day when they are due to have their celebration dinner for Sia getting the job, he doesn’t turn up on time for once. He lands up only a couple of hours late. Now hows that for taking your wife for granted. Not too cool Mr. Malhotra. Because this time around, Mrs. Malhotra doesn’t wait for too long and leaves. She isn’t reachable and neither is her best friend. A night goes by without any calls and eventually Dr. Malhotra files a missing person report. That’s where he bumps into (literally) Disha (Adah Sharma) who is actually a psychic and helps the local police quite often in solving several cases. She gets a vision that Kabir actually needs her help and what do you know – she is there.
Phhir is an extremely tackily made movie – add this to the ever growing list of tackily made movies from the Vikram Bhatt stable. It is strewn with exceptionally bad screenplay. The dialogues / script are atrocious at best. The only person in the cast who seems to have tried to act is Adah Sharma but even she is average at her best attempt. The rest of the cast should seriously consider alternative professions. Roshni Chopra should stick to television, Rajneesh Duggall to modeling and Dr. Mohan Agashe (notice the Dr. before his name these days) should stick to social networking advertisements which is the only way he is going to get any action. The good part of the entire experience of watching Phhir was that I got what I had expected. A 3 on 10 movie.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSp08n5Dfk
The story revolves around Dr. Kabir Malhotra (Rajneesh Duggall) is a name that figures in a list of “Asians who rocked Europe”. Now how is that for a list to be in? Too cool in the Vikram Bhatt world I am sure. Anyways, he is well and truly in love and also married to Sia (Roshni Chopra). Sia is a lawyer and is applying to be a professor in a local university in Newcastle. That’s where they stay. Kabir is a doc alright but he is also one hell of a late latif. He has always made Sia wait for all their dates and on the day when they are due to have their celebration dinner for Sia getting the job, he doesn’t turn up on time for once. He lands up only a couple of hours late. Now hows that for taking your wife for granted. Not too cool Mr. Malhotra. Because this time around, Mrs. Malhotra doesn’t wait for too long and leaves. She isn’t reachable and neither is her best friend. A night goes by without any calls and eventually Dr. Malhotra files a missing person report. That’s where he bumps into (literally) Disha (Adah Sharma) who is actually a psychic and helps the local police quite often in solving several cases. She gets a vision that Kabir actually needs her help and what do you know – she is there.
Phhir is an extremely tackily made movie – add this to the ever growing list of tackily made movies from the Vikram Bhatt stable. It is strewn with exceptionally bad screenplay. The dialogues / script are atrocious at best. The only person in the cast who seems to have tried to act is Adah Sharma but even she is average at her best attempt. The rest of the cast should seriously consider alternative professions. Roshni Chopra should stick to television, Rajneesh Duggall to modeling and Dr. Mohan Agashe (notice the Dr. before his name these days) should stick to social networking advertisements which is the only way he is going to get any action. The good part of the entire experience of watching Phhir was that I got what I had expected. A 3 on 10 movie.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSp08n5Dfk
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