Rating: 2.5/5
Caption: Horror for horror sake
Banner: Verma Corporation Ltd.
Cast: J.D.Chakravarthi, Susmitha Sen, Sayaji Shinde, MasterEhasas, Rajpal Yadav, Rasika and others.
Dialogue: Charu Dutt Acharya
Editor: Arif Shaik,
Photography: Sachin K.Kishen
Design And Graphics: Amir
Art Director: Sunil Nigvekar
Action: Sham Kaushal
Sound Designer: Kumal Mehta
Visual Effects: Oveja
Mixing: Ajay Kumar
Backgroung: Amar Mohile
Music: Rohitraj
Producer: Ramgopal Verma
Direction: Saurabh Usha Narang


Story:
A creative writer Sriram (J.D.Chakravarthi) and his wife Sindhu (Susmitha Sen), a medical doctor working in a hospital and their five-year-old young son Rohan (Master Ehsas) child, hire a house in a remote area. The camera then focuses at a tennis ball. This inanimate object is soon converted into animate and only Rohan could see its movements. He also says that he is seeing quite a number of persons in the house – not visible to the rest. A boy’s chuckle accompanies the ball movement. The boy’s parents never believe the boy and think it’s the child’s aberrations, whenever he conveys to them about the ball’s its movements or about people around him. The maidservant Ramulamma appointed to take care of the boy behaves wild with him and even enacts as if she is pushing him under a truck. The parents again ignore the complaint made by the boy. This time the tennis ball takes initiative to punish the woman with death. Police arrive to complicate the issue further. Slowly the screenplay introduces the activity of ghosts in the house, which made a ‘Marri Chettu’ opposite the house as their habitat. I between the love story between Renu (Sindhu’s younger sister) and one Murali also finds place. They are also added up to the list of those victims of the ghosts, Slowly those fall prey for the ghosts mount up and each one of them who died invariably turn into an active ghost. This list includes Sriram, Renu and others. Thus it is an unending story of the killings and the dead changing into ghosts, till the huge tree is bunt along with the ghosts.



Analysis:
Though the film appears to be a bit brighter than the films of Ramu released recently, the story line is not specific as to why every body is behaving for what, especially ghosts. The first half is simply dragging. It was bit an engaging because of audience reaction, with their own mimicking of sounds emanating from the track. There is a gun shot sound every time an scène changes. What for. It is disturbing more than adding to the thrill. Sound and photography contribute more to the cinema, of course editing too, than the drama itself. But for the technical contribution, the drama part is more like that happens in drawing room. Thus it is sure a low budget movie but is don in more number of languages. Te role of ‘Marrichettu’ is not explained well. We lurch in dark as to why these ghosts are behaving so and taking lives and adding them to their own list of strength. The film is technically OK, but not thematically.

Performances:
It is a drama of no particular line of action. For Chakravarthi and Susmitha their roles are more a normal characters one sitting pretty at home writing stories and the attending hospital duties. But their concern for the boy thrust these characters into play only after they discover they are in danger and was surrounded by Ghosts. They try to behave like the characters but never to act. That is Ramagopal Verma's school. The who played their son contributes well to the histrionics of the drama. Ghosts also cut the romantic part between Renu and Murali. Almost all the other roles (of ghosts) are filled by x, y, z, having nothing to act. The film has greater contribution from music composer and sound recordist and planner. Photography too is brilliant.

Movie reviewed by Sriram