Phoonk 2 Movie Review

Movie Review Phoonk 2 ( 2010 )

Director: Milind GadagkarStar
Cast: Neeru Bajwa, Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Rishabh Jain, Anu Ansari, Ashwini Kalsekar, Amit Sadh, Ganesh Yadav, Zakir Hussain, Vikas Srivastav, Rakesh Raj, Chyan Trivedi, Jeeva

?Phoonk 2? is the sequel of the flick ?Phoonk? by Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) which got released in 2008. Though, ?Phoonk? was a total failure in the box office and failed to give even the slightest panic to the audience. Now, RGV?s all hopes are set to ?Phoonk 2?.

?Phoonk? was all about black magic done by a female Madhu to traumatize the family of Rajiv (Sudeep), a businessman. The movie ended with the death of Madhu. The sequel ?Phoonk2? tells the story of Madhu?s evil spirit returning back to haunt the family and take her revenge from Rajiv.

In ?Phoonk 2?, Rajiv (Sudeep) shifts to a new place and is immersed in his construction business and his kids Raksha (Ahsaas Channa) and Rohan (Rishabh Jain) are also happy with the new place which is surrounded with beach and woods. The horror in their life starts when the kids find a doll in the woods which they carry back home. Thus, the evil spirit of Madhu returns into the doll to haunt and torment Rajiv (Sudeep),his wife Arati (Amruta Khanvilkar) and his beloved children Raksha and Rohan.


Rajiv could not stand the torture that his family gets to face because of Madhu. Madhu?s evil spirit leaves no stones unturned to smite Rajiv?s family to take its revenge. Manja (Zakir Hussain), was the only man who could have helped Rajiv but Madhu?s spook didn?t spare him either. The family suffers in a gruesome and cruel way in the hands of the evil. The spirit of Madhu is shown far more dangerous than she was before when alive. She became more rebellious and filled with animalism. She is brutal, dangerous and cruel and unforgiving. The family got trapped in the evil spirit?s woven trap and the movie shows how a living evil person can be more rebellious and powerful in evil manners after death. The spirit becomes invincible which the family fails to overcome. The evil spirit brings Rajiv to the verge where he has to choose to save a loved one by sacrificing the other.

Let the climax of the movie be a secret which will give answers to as to how do Rajiv cope with the situation, did his family members survived? This can be found out only in the theatres.

The story of the movie has been penned down and directed by Milind Gadagkar who is a debutant. The movie has been produced by P. Chandrashekhar and Prashant Burra. The flick is presented by Zed Pictures and Sarthak Movies. The flick?s music is by Dharam and Sandeep.

The movie has a lot of scenes which has shown sheer violence, bloodshed and horror. Disfigured bodies have been shown to produce the scare and disturbing sequences of death. People who have heart ailments can stay away from the theatres as there are a lot of disturbing scenes and sequences in the movie.

Horror genre is a chancy venture. However, it cannot be denied that there are many Horror genre hits in both Bollywood and Hollywood. Indian horror movies like 'Bees Sal Baad' and 'Raaz'(Part 1) with a solid script, good cinematography and direction have successfully given goose bumps to the audiences. The fate of ?Phoonk 2? depends on the audience now.

Paathshala 2010

Movie Review Paathshala
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Nana Pateka, Saurabh Shukla, Sushant Singh, Swini Khara, Dwij Yadav, Avika Gor, Anjan Srivastava

Director: Milind Ukey

Rating: **

There are few films, a star does for friendship and some with the lure of working under a big banner, irrespective of their content.

An extremely choosy actor Shahid Kapoor after giving big hits like Vivaah, Jab We Met and Kaminey has been giving duds like Dil Bole Hadippa (Yash Raj Films), Chance Pe Dance (UTV) and an equally bad follow up with Paathshaala.

Shahid?s friendship with producer of the film, ace choreographer Ahmed Khan is well known. But still we wish, he should have not blindly trusted his buddy when it came to a film!




















Shahid plays Rahul Prakash Udyawar the new English teacher joining Saraswati Vidya Mandir, a school established in 1941. Since the school doesn?t have a music teacher, he ends up being one as well.

He gets help in this from the school's nutritionist-cum-admin girl, Anjali Mathur (Ayesha Takia). School principal Aditya Sahay (Nana Patekar).

Anjali ends up falling for Rahul during this process. Sahay who has nurtured the school for 32 years, cannot see it going down financially. So, he gives in to the management's demands of generating more revenue by commercialising the operations of the school.

This is met with intense opposition from the teachers, but they eventually have to comply to save their respective jobs. The school management even decides t hired PR experts to change its image.

Thus began, film and ad shoots happen on campus wherein students are used as extras. And before they know it, all kids have to now keep aside studies for 10 days and prepare for a reality show audition.

The rest of the film is about how the reality show thing tortures the students and how Rahul stands against it.

Director Milind Ukey who gave us the very lovable animated film Hanuman has got a good topical subject on hand but falters big time in the script written by producer Ahmed Khan himself.

While it identifies the problems perfectly, a proper solution is not offered in the end. Also what happens to the school finally is also not made clear.
Bad dialogues are made only worse by loud acting by most of the cast. Certain emotional scenes leave you either bored or end up making you laugh. Hanif Sheikh?s music barring the Lucky Ali number Aye Khuda is nothing much to praise about.

In an attempt to showcase how education goes for a toss in private schools as the managements aims to earn the extra buck the makers also don?t lose out a chance to make a satire out of the media, shifting focus from his original aim.

The pathetic climax is unintentionally hilarious with no conclusion to what happened to the villains of commercialization and all suddenly become well!

Shahid Kapoor and Nana Patekar are the only saving graces of the film with their well nuanced performances. The rest including Ayesha Takia don?t really make a difference. The child stars are just about okay.

Avoid this Paathshaala if you are in no mood for a badly written gyan giving film.