The protagonist is obsessed with eating ice cream and suffers from a nightmare disorder.
Ram Gopal Verma! What a fall! Film is a Hindi dubbed release version of 2014 Telugu film Ice Cream! Dubbed in Hindi as Yeh Kaisi Anhonee! Supposedly based on a true story. A film that is proof a Film maker loses it in his self grandeur delusions completely and indulges self.Sometimes you see a film and feel Deja Vu - you have seen it before. RGV takes Deja Vu to a whole new level. The film replays itself over and over in a loop. The first 5 minutes is the whole film repeated ad nausea like a stuck Gramophone record like 10 times before a rushed climax! A self indulgent, sexy, confident Urmila in prime could have pulled it off maybe. Alas Tejaswi is no actress nor sexy despite best attempt of the director to show her as one! Hutiya banaya, Hutiya banaya, Hutiya banaya aapne!
Sample this:
Rich family that moved into a new palatial bungalow are away at a wedding. Girl is alone in a huge Bungalow studying for exams. Boyfriend comes who keeps joking. Some random huge knocking on door where no one knocked. She wants to study so pushes him out of house. She calls him to share her loneliness asking him back. He comes back. She throws him out again! Goes to take a shower where camera shows her legs as she removes her clothes undergarments and strips. She wears fresh pair of short sexy clothes. She feels someone is there. Sees an old witch like creepy lady. Wakes up screaming on bed. A dripping bathroom tap noise always creeps her! Calmly starts studying. Eats a bowl of ice cream. She suffers from a compulsive Ice Cream eating disorder. Boy always tells her eating too much can cause nightmares. Thats the point of the film. is it horror or ice cream eating and nightmare disorder?
Repeat these events randomly in a loop again and again. The first 5 minutes or so go one repeating endlessly for most of the film making you wish you were sleeping and seeing a horror dream instead. That would be more exciting! Randomly someone comes in house and vanishes mysteriously or re-appears mysteriously without coming through the door spooking her - A pizza guy, a maid and her spooky son, a plumber whose legs seem to turn 360 degrees when he limps..All are ghosts. Or not? The girl finds it harder to figure out whats real, whats imagination, whats a dream.
Director tries a real world thing in mind. So when she sees adoringly self into a mirror 4/5 times initially and leaves, you expect her reflection to stay in it smiling in an evil grin. But it doesn't. The mirror acts normally. Well lit frames just indulge tracking the protagonist - hanging empty devoid of any development throughout. The hand held camera tracks, reveals of someone behind off focus etc are too outdated in today's times. The Amar Mohile brand jump scare loud background music out of times. The creepy looking characters no longer feel creepy but boring cliched. Revisiting Kaun with 2 characters in a worse way! The film relies too heavily on background score shrieking at supposed jumpscare moments and fails. Neither the cinematography nor editing or director's touch, nor actors do anything to add that mood such a thriller needs. They all look bored and inept! Camera even is placed under her bedsheet as she tries to sleep and wakes up uneasily! Alas wasted effort at bizarre camera angles failed by the pretty looking actress Tejaswi!
Supposedly first Indian movie to be filmed with Flowcam System Technology Camera & sound! I have no idea what it is frankly saw no difference despite credits announcing same proudly! maybe the background score was more louder in Dolby Cinemas. A trick cannot save a dead film.All I see is RGV making a film just to use some new technology in schoolboy excitement who sees a cartoon strip and tries to draw his own and failing! Thats RGV now. Reduced to making films just to experiment with something for the sake of it without any purpose, heart or soul. Gone is that gritty offbeat wizard we knew from Raat, Sarkaar, Pyar Tuney Kya Kiya, Satya, Company, Rangeela, Kaun, Bhoot, Shiva.
Deja Vu it is. Yeh Kaisi Zidd? Yeh Kaisi Anjhonee film financers aur multiplex paying audiences ke saath! Synopsis by Vikas Bhatt
