Darna Zaroori hai??

After a disastrous first blog, which thankfully very few people knew of, here I am with my second attempt. Hopefully, this will last longer than the first one. For want of a better idea, I’m going to start off with a film review – Darna Zaroori Hai. This is one of those films that has been long awaited and quite surprisingly the pre-launch publicity has been very low-key. Just makes one wonder if the producers knew what was coming. Anyway, coming from the Ram Gopal Verma factory, one tends to expect a lot.

Oh btw, I hate spooky films. I have seen a total of 3 horror movies in theatres(that is if u include an animal movie with a rhino and some kids and some gangsters and some eerire music, which I saw when I was in second class. This film for some strange reason scared the shit out of me and couldn’t sleep properly for many days after). And so, full of resolve to change things I head to Satyam theatre with a friend in tow.

The movie starts with the scene of a person watching Darna Mana Hai in the theatre, cussing all along. And then after the movie, as he walks through the graveyard, he begins to get the feeling that someone is following him. Just when u think that this scene is fallig in line with the clichéd horror movie scenes(what with all those spooky sounds, and the sounds of bracelets and wind rustling), ur in for a surprise. There was quite a nice twist here. This scene would probably fit into one of those ‘Scary Movie’ sequels. Anyway this was just the intro scene. The actual story has not started yet.

The story starts with a group of 5 kids, who’ve come on a picnic, wandering into the forest. They keep wandering till its totally dark and spooky all around(Me wonders what kind of 10 yr old kids do that). Anyway, they chance upon an old bungalow(just like in those old movies) and chance upon a weird looking grandmother who challenges one of the kids that she could scare the shit out of them. And that’s where the stories begin. The first is the story of Amitabh and Ritesh Deshmukh. The scare factor in this episode is totally because of the sounds. This one is directed by RGV himself. Nothing much of a story here and the audience is left a little confused in the end. The second episode has Arjun Rampal, Bips and Makarand Deshpande(The mystic in ‘Swades’). This was among the better episodes, but its quite predictable, esp if one has seen Darna Mana Hai. If you haven’t, then its definitely worth it.

The third episode has Suniel Shetty, Sonali Kulkarni and Rajpal Yadav. This has to be the worst episode. One keeps expecting something to happen till the end, but its just in vain - a damp squib. Its supposed to be similar to the Saif episode in DMH, but is nowhere as interesting. The forth episode features Mallika and Anil Kapoor. Its sad to see Mallika all covered up for a change. Anyway, this was another interesting episode. Its one of those ending which has one of two possible conclusions. Its just a matter of guessing the right one. Nicely done. The last oe featuring Randeep Hooda(The ‘D’ guy) is a direct pick from Gothika(or so my friend says). Well, at the end of this movie, if ur expecting to get spooked out, just forget it. If I didn’t, you definitely wouldn’t. How does it compare with DMH? Not half as good as DMH. It has a good intro and 2 good episodes. But the other episodes just pull the movie down. And the ending especially was unwarranted. Not a movie for the thrill seekers. With a movie like this Darna Zaroori Nahi hai.