Are you ready to get scared once again? RGV is back with his sequel for Phoonk and this is probably the last horror movie of the year because this year there is only one more horror movie in the list which will be released somewhere in July-August. Phoonk 2 is directed by Milind Gadagkar who is directing his first movie though he had written the earlier version of this sequel. The movie is very low on budget but the director claims that there are more scary scenes than what audience saw in the earlier movie.
Since Phoonk 2 is a sequel you need to watch the earlier version to understand the happenings in this movie. Phoonk 2 begins with Rajiv(Sudeep), Arati(Amruta Khanvilkar) and their kids Rohan(Rishabh Jain) and Raksha(Ahsaas Channa) checkout a new bungalow which is right next to the beach. They soon begin to explore different areas of their new residence. While parents are busy with their own work, kids begin to explore the lonely beach and the creepy woods behind the bungalow where Raksha finds a doll. However, the doll is evil and has a ghost of Madhu who was killed in the climax of the earlier movie. Gradually, every member of the family is trapped under the evil power of Madhu and how Sudeep and his family take over Madhu’s evil powers concludes the movie.
If we talk about the performances in the movie than Sudeep and Amruta Khanvilkar both have done a pretty convincing job in their respective characters. The kids Rishabh and Ahsaas are good child actors because they know their characters well. Apart from that all the earlier characters like Manja and Lakshmi are very much the same. Technically the movie is very good and full marks goes to Charles Meher for superb cinematography and to Rahul Pandirkar for haunting background score. However, the story written by the director himself did not work out as per the expectations of the audience. The movie drags for nearly twenty five minutes in the start where the family is just checking out the bungalow and by that time people are already tired of watching the bungalow and the beach. The movie is definitely a flop on the box office but if you compare Phoonk with Phoonk 2 than definitely this movie has far more chills than the earlier version.