So, @pranay22 asked me that I haven’t watched Ragini, I replied, I feared a lot, so always took every horror movie at a hand’s distance from me, even when I write horror stories (4-5 written), I scare myself while writing those, but atlast I watched one horror movie, the newest presentation from Ekta Kapoor and Balaji telefilms, "Ragini MMS".
As the name suggests, its a kind of strictly A movie, although not much shown, just common scenes, but the feelings are on higher intensity, like the fetich/kinky thoughts and happenings as thought by male lead character, kind of filthy, bad language used, so, kindly DONT TAKE CHILDREN (even smaller, as you can scare someone like me by their uncontrolled and mistimed yelpings!) with you. This movie is on the same pattern of the last movie of Ekta productions "LSD", shot by handheld videocam angles, and using great soundeffects, they tried to scare you, and they did in 2nd half. May be I am a bit exaggerating, since I’m an amateurish horror movie viewer (last horror movie I seen is 13B and 1920). !st half dragged a bit loose on the RGV’s "Darna Mana Hai" style, where you are laughing instead of scaring, but 2nd half will put out the guts for you, snd for a guy like me, its much!, although main plot copied from "Paranormal Activity", and one scene totally copied from "The Blair Witch Project", but yes, it’s a bit scary, and as movie says, its based on a true event.
As the story goes, it is a story of a couple, the guy Uday (Rajkumar yadav, from LSD), and the girl Ragini (Kainaz Motiwala). Uday wants to picturise a bad MMS of the girl, so he took the girl to a lonely house in the woods for a weekend, where many cameras are fixed, but that house belongs to some paranormal being, and hence they, their friends, etc are hunted down by that force, although, the girl survives. What stands in the story is acting of Rajkumar Yadav, he act like natural, person being scared, when he was hunted down by someone, and well supported by background score, the screams, loud music appeared suddenly, and sudden vision of some ghosts. 2nd half get the hell out of you, when the girl is waiting for next night tied to the bed, although here scene becomes lazy , editing misses this scene (Pooja Ladha). Cinematography is on the same line of LSD, amateurish, and real shoot (Tribhuvan). Some dialogues have bad words as I mentioned earlier. Both the actor did their role well in the movie directed by Pavan Kriplani.
In the movie, which starts with the recitation of Hanuman Chalisa at the credits (it was used earlier in 1920, to scare bad spirits just like any horror english movie uses their christian sayings like in Constantine to remove devils out of bodies), you obviously get the feel, that something is there which is waiting for you, and the blacks of scenes worked for horror, killing is ruthless, crisp screenplay by Pavan and Vaspar Dandiwala, just 1.5 hrs long. No songs, obviously, but background has some songs like S.D.Burman’s "Raat Akeli Hai" and "Raagini" by Faizan Hussain and Agnel Boman. Worth mentioning scenes are-:
Entering into the woods, and the scary house
Scared hero, and paranormal happenings
The hunt started after 2nd half.
When Ragini tries to escape but climisht again by someone, after her shooting the same scene of Blair Witch style.
I am still not able to think, that how can a pair go to a lonely house in the woods, just for s*x, I mean, hotels are available, okay I can see, that the boy wants to make a bad movie out of her, but are the girls so dumb! I can never think of even visiting such places, just for taking pictures (Visited Bhangarh though!) You can watch it for sure, but just give it time to scare you, but for regular horror movie viewer, just low down your expectations. Its 3.5/5 for me.
GRuchirG.