I read so many positive reviews, and hence I decided to watch Murder 2 instead of Chillar Party (as now I am restricted to 1 movie per week, ghar bhi chalana hai :P), and I was not disappointed, but thoroughly enjoyed every part of this thrilling-and-chilling movie. On a Monday evening, the theater was half-full, and that is a bonus point for Bhatt camp, yes they copied a movie to the core, but then whatever they presented was a real chilling result.
The movie starts directly, without wasting a reel, when a call-girl dealer meet an ex-cop Arjun Bhagwat (Emran Hashmi) about missing case of his call-girls, and handed hi the money, and then started a race of finding and killing, where there is a psycho serial killer on loose, named Dheeraj Pandey aka Sakhi (Prashant Narayanan). And then there’s some other characters in between like Ins. Sidhharth (Sudhanshu Pandey), MLA Nirmala Pandit (Sandip Sikand), college-student-call girl Reshma (Sulagna Panigrahi) and ohh! ofcource model on loose (read less clothes) Priya (Jacqueline Fernandes), and the movie roll on for 2 hours with twists and turns and all the spine-chilling factors came. You need some lever (not Johnny! but kaleja as called in Hindi) to watch this movie.
The best thing I liked about this movie is that the movie started from the 1st reel itself, unlike many movies of Bhatt camp where romance come first (pyar pehle, kaam baad mein, I mean work wala kaam), and that is what I liked about Mohit Suri’s treatment, a tight and fast presentation, exact editing by Devendra Murdeshwar, and a signature style by Mohit Suri. I liked his earlier movies like Kalyug and Aawarapan (in which Emran rocks since he don’t have any kissing scenes). Here too Mohit has his signature on making, and a dark, gritty movie he presented, with again Emran Hashmi as lead. Many may think him as a non-actor, but in my eyes, he’s a very talented actor, and he did his role very well here as well. Now, as many has come to know that this movie is a ripoff of a Korean movie, so that may be true, since I personally think that no Indian writer/screenplay writer can thought about such tight onscreen play (Shagufta Rafique, Mahesh Bhatt). And this movie has a hint of ’Aawarapan’ movie too, quite similar role of Emran and his god-hating image, which later turns to god-loving, with the perfect use of movie’s songs blended in between the scenes, and throughout used as background, and which gave the movie an emotional quotient plus a fast pace. All actors did well abut the villian was exceptionally great actor, Prashant Narayanan (whom I didn’t liked) is a real good actor, and acted perfectly as a psychopath killer. Then there is some black events going on, which make you remember a great black magic-related movie ’The Stoneman Murders’. Jacqueline was simply wasted, reduced to just few clothes, every here and there. But I really didn’t like Jacqueline as Bollywood heroine, since she had a manly body and figure, which is unsuitable for any glamorous roles. As of now, she didn’t know acting! Some scenes related with the character Reshma, they try to put a horror quotient, but Thank God! they didn’t played much there, otherwise it can make the movie crash on floors, as it was sincerely not required. Background score was well-suited to every scene, with cinematography (Ravi Walia). Songs are well-spun in the story, like "Aa Zara", sensuous song performed by Yana Gupta at the starting credits, voiced by Sunidhi Chauhan, and composed by Sangeet-Siddharth Haldipur, and which sets the movie in correct dimensions. Then comes romantic song between Emran-Jacqueline "Haal-e-dil" sung, composed by Harshit Saxena, and is the best song of the album. In between as background/foreground comes a full-beat sad song, "Tujhko Bhulana", sung by Sangeet and Roshni (composed by Sangeet-Siddharth), and lastly but a mandatory lucky charm for Mohit Suri came the Emran-God relationship song "Aye Khuda" sung by Kshitij Tarey (hails from my native place), Saim Bhatt and Mithoon, and composed by Mithoon. Some of the best scenes -
The starting song
Reshma encounter with Dheeraj
Searching of Reshma by Arjun
Arjun-Dheeraj encounter
Dheeraj’s police custody scenes
The slapping scene on commissioner face
Psychiatrist’s tryst with Dheeraj
Niramala Pandit’s entry
Chilling Climax
The link between Murder 1 and 2 is the song "Bheege Honth tere", which was sung repeatedly by the villian of this film Dheeraj aka Prashant, whenever he hunt his victim, ending with the line "Tere Tukde karoon char", so I must say that watch this movie once in a theater, as you will not feel even a pinch of boringness, and 2 hrs pass like blinking of an eye. My rating 4/5.
GRuchirG.
(: in the process of growing-up :)