Phoonk - To Each His Own
27th August 2008 | posted in External Reviews, Hindi Movies, meetu |Looks like youre new here. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Meetu’s Review: RGV dons new avatar. He’s now moved on to comedies. Ok, not 100% comedies because there are 2 strong serious scenes which put a plug on the most natural sounding laughter track playing in the audience
Rating: Watch if you have nothing better to do
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Here is what 24 other reviewers/viewers think. Average rating 1.6 / 5.0: 5 thumbs up, 5 so-so, 14 thumbs down.
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| Aparajita Ghosh, Apun Ka Choice …Ramu does manage to extract good performances from the cast ? particularly from Sudeep and Ahsaas Chana… See full review |
Baradwaj Rangan, Blogical Conclusion, The New Sunday Express …we don?t share Rajeev?s abject helplessness, because we know that his daughter?s condition isn?t due so much to a nameless horror as a shamelessly hammy actress… See full review |
| Aniruddha Basu, DearCinema …Lets just say that nearly everyone in the packed theatre were either giggling or shaking their heads in disbelief…. See full review |
Robert L Sungte, Deccan Herald …you may prefer sitting in front of a 24-hours news channel and get all the really horrific incidents to get your goose bumps…. See full review |
| Deep, Deep’s Home …But 2nd half was really impressive,everything perfect. (Leaving few things aside)… See full review |
fullhyd.com …Almost nothing happens in the first half, and the second is some of the violent scenes of The Exorcist minus the innovative parts… See full review |
| Martin D’souza, Glamsham.com … I want to know why Madhu laughs the way she does? But Rajiv is OK with her…. See full review |
Khalid Mohamed, Hindustan Times …something about ?psycho dissassociative disorder.? So much medical research, it?s touching…. See full review |
| Rajeev Masand, IBN Live …It’s the kind of film where the director will take all sorts of cheesy liberties… See full review |
Taran Adarsh, IndiaFM …Of course, you do get the jhatkas in a scene or two, but you don’t clasp your hands tightly even once, nor does your heart goes dhak-dhak at a lightening speed…. See full review |
| Gaurav Malani, indiatimes …Phoonk routes for the conventional gimmicks to induce fear by opting for creepy background score, hovering camera movements and shocking sound effects…. See full review |
Indicine …Over all the film ends with the audience thinking and wanting to know more of what follows through…. See full review |
| M TV …It’s the film’s climax that lets it down completely. For one, it’s a cop-out, a clich?, and secondly, it’s just plain irresponsible…. See full review |
Movie Talkies …he soundtrack, like in Bhoot, plays a major role in the film, only in this one, it seems to get a little more enthusiastic…. See full review |
| Anupama Chopra, NDTV …Varma doesn’t use his lead actress very efficiently either. Children can be superbly scary because that’s precisely what we least expect them to be…. See full review |
Subhash K Jha, Now Running.com …Zakir Hussain as a fakir, who is called in at the last moment to save the child from black magic, pulls out all stops…. See full review |
| Pratim D. Gupta, Passion for Cinema …And the objects which do move in Phoonk, move too much. The grandmother?s head keeps moving like nobody?s business… See full review |
Goher Iqbal Punn, Radio Sargam …With ?Phoonk?, he proves his mettle that he may hit the jackpot with his dexterous mind. Every sequence gets your eyes glued on the screen…. See full review |
| Elvis D’Silva, Rediff …Belief systems are established and when things start to go awry, tension is built up well enough so that you will definitely jump a little when things go bump at night. *… See full review |
Screen …Similar story was seen years ago in Geherayee…That one was truly eerie… See full review |
| SmasHits.com …Ashwini Kalsekar succeeds in creating the right atmosphere, and proves a top notch…. See full review |
Harshita Kohli, StarBoxOffice …from the first scene itself RGV manages to get your heart racing…. See full review |
| Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India … there’s only one `jump’ moment, when Sudeep moves but his mirror image doesn’t move… See full review |
Upper Stall …Repeating shots and sequences fails to emphasize the horror the characters are going through, and that is the result of a weak and one-dimensional script…. See full review |