DARNA ZAROORI HAI

Well, well, well... writing reviews for Factory films has always been tough, and it cannot get tougher than this. DZH is definitely different... but does it really work? Well... read on to find out.

Well DZH is a sequel to a-not-so-successful Darna Mana Hai. It follows the same path and takes 7 different stories and ties them together using one main story. In the case of Darna Mana Hai, it was 6 friends telling each other Ghost stories, here its an old lady who tells 5 kids ghost stories when they enter her mansion because of rains.

DZH has 6 stories ranging from awesome to aweful. Well, to make life simpler for all of us, lets just take each story one by one.

1> Sajid Khan writes and directs the first story that has an amazing Manoj Pahwa taking a potshot on every possible horror cliche including Chudails, Kabristans, Amavas raats n what not. Shifting regularly between scary and Hilarious this story is one of the best enterprises. Manoj Pahwa rocks in a role tailormade for him, eating and laughing his heart out and Sajid Khan proves that he can make a promising director.

2>Ramu himself weilds the megaphone for this story starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ritesh Deshmukh. It is about a professor who thinks that someone is staying in his house. Ritesh and Amitabh excel in thier respective roles, Ramu directs well, but the story does not scare you and is culminated into a childish looking climax.

3>Prawaal Raman, the guy who had directed DARNA MANA HAI, comes up with the third story starring an stunning looking Bipasha, and a wooden Arjun Rampal. The story is decent in parts but thanks to Arjun Rampal's pathetic acting skills, it loses interest midway. Makrand Deshpande is brilliant in a role that seems to be tailormade for him.

4> New comer Vivek directs the fourth story starring Sonali Kulkarni, Rajpal Yadav and Suneil Shetty (yawn!). After u watch this story u will actually wonder if this is a horror story. Pathetic to the T, it falls flat on its face right from the first frame. Rajpal gives a spirited performance, Sonali is Ok but Suneil Shetty takes the cake by coming up with what could be called the worst performance by an actor in a decade. This story is so bad that you can actually go out of the theatre and come back after 15 boring minutes.

5> Anil Kapoor and Mallika Sherawat act with amazing ease in the fifth story directed by Jijy Philip of My Wife's Murder. Taking a dig at Karan Johar this is a highly predictable story and hardly evokes any scare. Its a very average story. Can be called as the second worst of the film... after Suniel's Sucker Story of course.

6> Now this one is the true shocker. Directed by Chakraverty and starring Randeep Hooda and Rasika Joshi, this story is easily the best of the enterprise. Written by Manish Gupta, it is a truely shocking story and is worth ever penny u spend on the ticket of DZH. Simply Spellbinding is the only phrase i can use to describe this story. Both Randeep and Rasika act brilliantly. Its the best of the lot.

Now coming to the connecting story; that of an old lady and a bunch of kids is also Ok in parts but becomes very predictable towards the end. Manish Gupta shows spark as a director.

All in all DZH is a decent attempt. You wont get bored. Worth a ticket's price.

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My Rating: * * *