404 (2011) *LQ*
Posted by Babu Rao on 23 May 2011 | Tagged as: Thriller, Horror, 2011
404 is a title aimed at today’s internet junkies and youngsters. It’s intriguing enough to find out why a film is titled so. It’s a smart move by the makers of this psychological thriller. Speaking of psychological thrillers, we haven’t seen one in Bollywood since a long time. So it’s a welcome change amidst the rom-coms and love stories.
Cast: Rajvvir Aroraa, Imaad Shah, Satish Kaushik
A young broker (Mahaakshay) has the arduous job of selling off a haunted house in the hills. But before he can do that, he chooses to exorcise the house of its shrieking ghosts. More interestingly, it means travelling back in time to re-align an unsavoury incident that occurred 80 years ago. Can the broker seal his deal?
A ghost torments the family and friends of Anita(archana puran singh) in order to take revenge on his death caused by her police-officer father played by Kharbanda. Rest of the movie is on how Anita tackles the ghost with the help of her boyfriend played by Karan Shah. 
Certain stories that the Ramsay Brothers attempted a few decades ago are being rehashed and packaged in new avtaars to this date. The revenge of the restless soul, the reincarnation bit, the spate of murders, the decomposed dead body coming to life… haven’t we watched it all in the past? MALLIKA is hackneyed, uninspired and clichéd from start to end. Also, there’s nothing in the film that would make you jump out of your seat or give you sleepless nights at home. On the contrary, the film is unintentionally funny and also makes you chuckle at the absurdities at several points in the story.
Vic (Bobby Deol), a film maker who specialises in horror films, enters a rough patch in his marital life with Pia (Mugdha Godse). Horror seems to enter their domestic life when a pregnant Pia suddenly becomes possessed with ghosts from her troubled past. Can Vic exorcise the past demons with the help of psychic Shreyas Talpade?
A phoonk that mere nips at you, gives you goose pimples now and then but never blows you away.In Phoonk 2, Ram Gopal Varma recedes into the shadows and lets writer Milind Gadagkar (who penned Phoonk) step forth and wield the director’s reins. But there’s a great deal of Ramu’s stamp to be seen in the debutant director’s work.It’s as if Ramu turned a ghost director (pun unintended) for this horror film and called the shots from afar.
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