Film: Click
Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Sada, Sneha Ullal
Genre: Horror
Direction: Sangeeth Sivan
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes
Release Date: 19 Feb 2010
Genre: Horror
Language: Hindi
Story: Shreyas Talpade, a fashion photographer, suddenly finds a strange apparition in the photographs clicked by him. Turns out, the spirit is a visitor from his forgotten past who has an unfinished story to tell. Will his current girl friend stand by him in this ordeal?
Movie Review: She comes back from his past to haunt his present. But does she really create a scare, this crestfallen, sad little spirit who suddenly begins to peer at him from behind mirrors, under beds, inside closets and sobs tears of blood, wherever she goes? Not really. After a few initial jumps here and there in the beginning, you don't get the heebie-jeebies, simply because the director reveals too much, too fast. Also, the special effects are not quite state-of-the-art and images of the ghost walking upside down on the ceiling or clambering, head downwards, from a ladder, are actually cheesy. They don't chill your bones, as all horror films must do.
The story essentially focuses on a college romance gone awry and the aftermath that follows when spurned Sneha Ullal seeks her pound of flesh from Shreyas Talpade who refuses to get serious after a one-night stand. The chapter summarily ends on a bad note and is re-opened again in the picture-perfect present, when Shreyas has graduated into a hotshot photographer who lives with his model girlfriend, Sada. Driving home on a foggy night, the couple hit a mysterious girl and run. But there ain't no running away from a sordid past: that's the bitter truth that gradually dawns on the twosome who soon begin to find an intruder in their candle-lit dinners. Got to trek back to the past and ferret out unsavoury secrets....
The film works only in fits and starts. Shreyas does try hard to keep the momentum going, but the campy special effects leave a lot to be desired. Watch it for the twist in the tale in the end and some goosebumps in the beginning.
