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Hindi Film review
Johnson Thomas
Film: Ragini MMS 2: Grunt, Scream, Grind, Strip- The
Horrex formula
Cast: Sunny Leone, Parvin Dabas, Sandhya Mridul,
Saahil Prem, Anita Hassanandani,Sonia Mehra, Karan Mehra, Kainaz Motiwala
Director: Bhushan Patel
Rating: * *
The first one was a novelty. Vast numbers of the
Indian mainstream audience had not seen it’s copycat inspiration, ‘The Blair witch Project’ so Balaji managed to
score a winner on smart timing, sheer
ingenuity and pluck. This one (Ragini MMS 2) has no such luck. It’s slimy,
sleazy and completely adulterated with formulaic elements. So what you get is a
ghastly song and dance whose plot basics closely resemble ‘The Blair Witch
Project 2.’
Fancy this: A group of
filmmakers try to recreate the events from the first movie and as expected the
ghost from the past gets resurrected. This sequel begins with a loud and insecure
director Rocks (Parvin Dabas) deciding to make a film on the two leads who were
subjected to a paranormal experience when they spent a dirty weekend in an
isolated bungalow. In this movie, Ragini has
been sent to a mental asylum and her boyfriend Uday is missing. In order to make
the film more realistic, Rocks decides
to shoot the film in the original haunted bungalow.
Rocks wants Sunny(Sunny Leone) to essay the
role of Ragini and he has his way. An
assorted bunch of other characters such as a brooding scriptwriter, an
over-enthusiastic TV actor, a psychiatrist who is also an exorcist and a
two-bit actress Monali(Sandhya Mridul)
round-up the motley crew of odd-ball characters being primed for the
scare-fest.
This time the Ghost with a scrambled voice enters
Sunny Leone’s body and everyone she comes in contact with either gets spooked
or killed. The plot twists are many, the scare thrills are screechy, the
atmosphere is less than scary and the effects look terribly shabby. It’s a kill-it-by-numbers
nihilistic assay that in experience feels thoroughly exasperating. The make-up
and CGI come unstuck big-time. Nothing looks real or believable. Especially Sunny Leone’s bump, grind, scream, strip, sway
your hips and go for the kill routine. The horror faces look funny and the
dialogues sound so hokey it’s close to ridiculous. The sharp, loud sounds, the
cheap parlor tricks, the unconvincing scare
elements, and the poorly rendered back-story makes the going very
difficult for any form of enjoyment.
This film by
Bhushan Patel would have been better off if it was a spoof of the first. A few chart-busting
numbers(baby-doll in particular) with highly suggestive choreography can do
little to energise or enthuse the by-now weary viewer. Trying to fashion a
horror flick without ingenuity and creative enterprise , based solely on a
titillating presence is totally defeatist. After all why does one need to see
Sunny Leone in a Hindi film when her past ‘s’experiences are floating around
all over the internet- and that too full-on?
