Chanthupottu (2005) : A Controversy

                            Chanthupottu is a Malayalam movie directed by Lal Jose and released in 2005 . It tells the story of Radhakrishn...

Jan 18, 2015

Alone Hindi Movie Review

It is quite easy to write a viewpoint on the desi horror movies especially the ones coming from the Bhatt camp these days. Almost similar with the cliched elements and flavours added by the makers, they follow a similar pattern and the only change will be the actors and backdrop of these projects. Other than these, there is nothing exciting in these B-grade horror flicks. The producers of these flicks might be earning a return on their investment or else how come we get to see such stuffs getting repeated. May be its time for the Bhatt camp and others in Bollywood to take a cue from director Mysskin in how the horror genre can be reinvented.

ALONE the latest movie from Bhushan Patel doesn't have any Bhatt connection but is a horror flick with Bipasha Basu (who is now called the Queen of Horror) doing a dual role; a pair of conjoined twins.

The story revolves around Sanjana (Bipasha) and her husband Kabir (Karan Singh). They come to Kerala from Mumbai after her mother (Neena Gupta) met with a serious accident. But the return is not on expected lines as Sanjana's conjoined twin Anjana's soul starts haunting her and creates problems for the couple to move forward. The prime focus of the movie is Sanjana's effort to know why the spirit of her sister is following her. The problem for her is only she is able to see the spirit and no one else.

Except for a couple of occasions, there is nothing in here as such to scare you and the narrative becomes a case for a laugh after some time. The film begins from the same old territory of a house that gave the feel of a haunted one. Based on a Thail film, ALONE could have been a better movie had the execution been done with a different approach and for that the screenplay needed a fine tuning. Bhushan Patel after Ragini MMS 2 and 1920: Evil Returns was on a familiar territory to him but sadly that experience have not been reflected in Alone.

Bipasha Basu makes a decent effort with her scary as well as ghostly expressions with ease and Karan Singh Grover makes a reasonably good debut as Kabir. Only very few actors are part of this movie as supporting casts and none stood out for making a mention here.

Not an impressive work by Bhushan Patel, ALONE is a disappointing film that fails to scare you. If you are looking for scarier stuff better go for the DVD's of some other films from the same genre. I go with one and a half out of five as my personal rating for this flick.

Rating - 1.5 / 5

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