Roohi movie review: Janhvi Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao’s horror comedy is plain horrible
Roohi commented: What is missing is a coherent plot and writing. What we get is a daunting sequence.
Roohi movie cast: Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Sharma, Manav Vij, Alexx O’Nell, Sarita Joshi
Roohi movie director: Hardik Mehta
Roohi movie rating: One star
Story: Two small town boys, Bhaura Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma), in a strange situation with Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) together. She seemed to be a simple, indecent girl, but they soon realized that she had another side to her-her "ghost" personality, Afza. Bhaura has a feeling for Ruhi, and Catani falls in love with Afza. With a strange romance brewing between the three, Bhaura wants to get rid of Afza, and Qatani wants to make sure that she continues to live so that he can fall in love with her. They are frantically trying to find a solution to the problem, which puts them in a strange but funny situation, where they encounter strange characters. What happened next constitutes the crux of the story.
Comment: For many years, Bollywood has not given a shot to the horror-comedy genre. But recently it seems that it has indeed attracted the attention of filmmakers. Director Hadik Mehta tried to mix the two genres in Luxi and succeeded to a large extent. In the film, the three actors at the center of the story—Rajkumaru, Waren, and Jankhvi—are in good shape and cooperate with each other. Raj Kumaru, once again opened another part, let him play a small town guy with colored hair and a silly smile. Although his character may have similarities with his role in Sterry, he made sure that the character stands out with different manners and body language. But people do want to know if this is his role too many times. Warren shines with his great comic timing and perfect expression on the court. The actor easily took off the comics part, where he once again showed off his comedy talent. Whether it is Rushi or Afza, Yankhvi will not miss any opportunity. While playing Afza, she passed the chill as easily as the cowardly Rush.
This movie has its share of laughter with references from iconic movie moments-for example, Rose "Let" Jack die on the iconic Titanic and unforgettable "Palat" moments in Dir Valle du Chania Rajayange. The film was created by Mr. Singh Ramba Gautam Mehra, and it is full of well-written one-way lines, and it landed smoothly on most occasions.
What this film lacks is a deeper narrative. By the way, how does the protagonist deal with a back story, but rarely stick to it in your mind. After more than two hours, this movie can definitely be edited more closely. In addition to all entertainment, the film promotes the concept of self-love and self-confidence, which works to a certain extent, but the ending seems a bit convenient, casual, and lacks the fist that one can feed from the beginning. As for music, the two main tracks played at the opening and closing seasons-Nadiyon Paar (the renamed version of "Let the Music Play") and "Panhart"-are the highlights of the soundtrack composed mainly by Sachin Jigal , Even after the movie is over, stay in your mind.
The horror comedy "Roohi" directed by Hardik Mehta is a movie whose ambitions far exceed his work. This is not to say that the script is completely uninspired, but these highlights are not strong enough to withstand the excess of self-indulgent genres.
In many ways, Roohi is reminiscent of Stree, not only because both of them are from Maddock film stable and feature Rajkumar Rao as the protagonist. The actor used the tools of a seamstress-this is him in Steri-in exchange for a crime reporter's camera, and he made an inconspicuous piece called "Muzirabad Zarzala" Rag work, and in manners borrowed from his roles in Ludo and Barrely Key Balfi.
He is definitely the funny part, but as the ridiculous plot care gets out of control and becomes more and more clumsy, the actor seems to have lost his incompetent character on stage. When faced with a twist that made him lose his wisdom, he was a trembling wreck-the girl he loved was not as achievable as he thought, because she might not be a member of this world at all.
Rao made these scenes little, but inconsistent scripts-the screenwriters Mr. Singelamba and Gautam Mehra are difficult to give the flying plot premise a smooth and stable path-let him down at critical moments. The simple language, willful words and eccentric behavior make his role with co-actor Valen Sharma a harmless and indifferent temperament, which is one of the more effective elements that Rush managed to come up with.
Although Stree is about the wandering spirit of an aggrieved woman who goes to kidnap a man at a certain time of the year at night, this woman goes deeper into the space of insanity and unconcernedly explains the anger of a schizophrenic girl ( (Or pain), as we vaguely guessed, she got the wrong ending from her family and the misogynistic society she participated in. The flashback of the wedding was stained by the blood on the feet.
Janvi Kapoor has to jump out of his skin—or rather, disappear behind a heavy layer of prosthetics—to play the character of this split woman. However, she seems to be facing more than just a changeable mental state. She was also a muddy pair, literally a Chula, with his feet pointing backwards. When her husband dozed off on the night of the wedding, she took a new bride away, which made her feel her presence Between the groping and rants of this troublesome Damsel, she pulled two childhood friends, Bolapandi (Rajkumar Rao) and Catani Qureshi (Valenciar) Horse), in different directions. The boys fell in love with her—one was the docile Rush, and the other was her terrifying, destructive portrait.
In the "Stree" in 2018, Bollywood gave us a ghost who walked, her twisted'last' feet left a joyous subversion track, she haunted the town. Despite some minor issues, "Stree" is a sharp feminist commentary, an ancient fear of strong, eager women. The same producer and actor are playing "Lush" in theaters this week. I hope there is an encore. Sadly, the horror comedy of Dinesh Vijan-Rajkumar Rao is so terrible that there is no laughter.
"Pikeday Shadi" is nothing funny, young women are kidnapped and forced to have unwanted marriages. Every time a movie decides to mention it, it will make you cringe. Why do movies of the current era leave room for this "tradition"? "Rush" spent too much open time to establish such a "kidnapping", for a naive, open-mouthed "Alexx O'Nell" (Alexx O'Nell), which brought together laymen from several small towns, Baola (Rajkumar Rao) and Qatani (Valen Sharma), and a shy young woman Ruhi (Janhevi Kapoor), and stored them in the jungle for no good reason. The muscle-bound hood (Manav Vijay) occasionally appears. why? We never got it completely. The character muttered to himself, groping, all this is a mess.
There was an accident in Roohi. The two researchers soon discovered that she was a shapeshifter, and whenever she liked it, she would change from whispering to ranting. This idea has potential: women are never just one thing, or another. She has the same right to be many entities like everyone else. But this movie wasted its great determination, and tasteless jokes.
What is missing is coherent plot and writing. What we get is after a timid sequence, the next ('jhaad-phoonk', exorcism, women's chain), where we are treated with questionable lines: when and when will mainstream movies stop calling wives "Churdale"? No, it was never funny: the current usage just arouses anger. Merely treating movies as a disclaimer against superstition is not a buyout. The existence of a reliable Rao is also not a guarantee of quality. Sharma’s dialogue delivery brand is already tired. Kapoor tried the game, but never got the right to break through until the end.
Orgasm is a real cookie. Finally, you understand why this movie was made. What a waste of an ending
Luxi has two competing forces. One is a traditional and clumsy horror show, where superstition is embraced, witches abound, fear is accompanied by loud sound effects.
The other is a wild and unorthodox story with metaphorical possibilities, in which an unusual love triangle unfolds between a pair of friends and an owned woman.
But like its title character, Luxi is neither this nor that in the end.
Rush is directed by Hadik Mehta, directed by Mr. Singh Lamba and Mr. Gautam Mehra, and is set in a fictional corner of Uttar Pradesh. Here, Baura (Rajkumar Rao) and Qatani (Valen Sharma) explain that the gangster Shaker (Manaf Vijay) runs a lucrative bride kidnapping racket. The woman was dug up and taken directly to Mandap to marry Shaker's client.
Fuyu (if you can call it that way) appears in the form of Rush (Janvi Kapoor). Without the knowledge of Bavara and Katani, she was possessed by Afza, a witch obsessed with marriage. Bhawra was frightened by Ruhi's sudden transformation, the veins covering her entire skin, her restless cat eyes, and her upside-down feet.
Qatani, who is the more determined thing, is the boldest soul in the story, fascinated by this new creature.
Two men in love with two halves of the same woman – it’s about the strongest idea in the horror-comedy. Rather than sticking with this bizarre predicament, which yields the best scenes, Roohi thrashes about in search of coherence over its 134-minute duration.
Named after a female character but incurious about her condition or needs, the movie comes alive only in the wacky repartee between its male leads. Rajkummar Rao and Varun Sharma are perfectly matched in their bromance and shared ardour for Roohi/Afza. Despite being saddled with strained dialogue that revolves around the mispronunciation of English words and is delivered in near-incomprehensible accents, Rao and Sharma compensate by offering physical comedy and unwavering enthusiasm.
Janhvi Kapoor, who is well cast as the tremulous Roohi, has a tougher time. Chained and submissive for half the narrative, Kapoor is poorly served even by her ghoulish side. Apart from a changed appearance and a deep voice, the all-talk-no-action Afza scares only the easily frightened Bhawra.
Rajkummar Rao has been over similar territory in the 2018 movie Stree. Directed by Amar Kaushik and written by Raj & DK, Stree dished out ample servings of humour in the course of a story of yet another woman who wasn’t who she claimed to be.
Apart from its leading man, Roohi shares with Stree a producer (Dinesh Vijan) and a similar conceit of exploring female empowerment through the prism of comedy-laced horror. But the spirit is less willing this time. Bhawra’s creepy moves on the abducted Roohi get a fitting reply from Afza, but like other ideas in the movie, this one too makes little progress.
Rather than Stree, a better exemplar for Roohi’s failed genre-bending experiments is Anvita Dutt’s Bubbul, a beguiling tale of righteous revenge carried out by a woman with inverted feet and a clear sense of identity and purpose. Without the entertainment offered by Stree or the conviction of Bulbbul, Roohi is neither here nor there, like its dual-sided heroine.
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