Phoonk (2008)

Powerful

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Its not so scary. A lot of hype was given to this movie because of the contest in which the participant had to view the movie alone in the theater. A strictly one time watch on a DVD.I'm not going to go much into the story as it is simply about a non- believer being haunted by the supernatural and his family.Performances are good. Background Score, Visuals, camera angles etc were supposed to play a major role in a movie which was made to scare the audience. However, all of these were strictly OK.Some Facts Related to the Movie: There was even another contest where participants were supposed to submit their real life experience horror story. This was all on the Phoonk website www.phoonk.in which is now non-existent. However the sad thing about the second contest was that the winners were intimidated over the email but never announced on the website and were also officially never given the price money. I'm one of them.All in all a one time watch movie which doesn't completely fail to impress as a horror movie.

I don't know whether it is actually directed by RGV. It lacks the power of a RGV movie.Event though it is not a complete copy of any other movie, some scenes will remind you the Hollywood movies 'The Exorcist' and 'The Fourth kind'. The emotional scenes are a little boring. The basic story idea is good but, they failed in elaborating it properly.Thank God, there is no ghosts in funny make ups like in typical Indian horror movies. It follows the path of J/K horror movies and the appreciation goes to the director. We must also appreciate for selecting a plot like 'black magic' which can be rarely seen in contemporary horror movies . And he also won in telling it in a purely Indian way.

RGV and producer Azam Khan had promised a reward of 5 lacs to anyone who sees the movie alone in the theater. I wonder how can someone live in such a big misconception. Did they not watch the movie themselves? It is a below average movie where you feel like laughing in the first half at the strange camera angles and sounds and ear-piercing laughter Ramu used in a failed attempt to induce horror. And I had thought this is not from the factory, therefore RGV would have directed it well.The clichéd demonic possession, exorcism, and black magic remind you of Bhoot and Exorcist. The only good part was the kid Ahsaas Chhanna's acting.

I think Ramu has lost his charm now. I don't remember when he delivered his last good film. After SarkarRaj and Contract , I was under the impression that he will learn from his mistakes but this film disappointed me badly.The film is based on Black magic unlike Bhoot which revolved around spirit possessing main protagonist's body. Turn offs: 1) Weired Camera angles 2) Overacting by some of the actors (specially Aswin Kalsker and Zakir Hussien) 3) No concrete storyline 4) poor background scoreAll in all , The film fails in creating the atmosphere required for such a genre.However there are some good acting also by main protagonist(Sudeep). One question is still bothering me about the movie. What was the role of that Crow which is shown in movie from time to time?