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Director : Vikram K.Kumar
Music : Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Lyrics : Neelesh Misra
Starring : R. Madhavan, Neetu Chandra, Sachin Khadekar, Murli Sharma and Poonam Dhillon.

Rating : *** 1/2

There was a time when the horror genre monopoly was with the Ramsays who scared through shabby masks and gory facades. Ram Gopal Varma brought a change in the scene with creepy camera movements and shocking sound effects but the fear was merely a natural reflex action to stimulus. Somewhere the storyteller was camouflaged behind makeup men, cinematographers and sound designers. Debutante writer-director Vikram K Kumar succeeds in scaring you with his spooky story.

The urban story setting is similar to RGV’s Bhoot with a family shifting in to their new apartment no. 13 B in a city high-rise. The extended Barjatya -big joint family comprises of Manohar (R Madhavan), his wife (Neetu Chandra), mother (Poonam Dhillon), bhaiya, bhabhi, bachas and behan . From day one Manohar experiences strange occurrences in the building but keeps ignoring them until he happens to watch a daily afternoon soap on his TV that his family is hooked on.

Soon he realizes that the script of the serial coincides with the screenplay of his life. The characters in the soap correspond to that of his family and the events of the show run parallel to his real life. Manohar has to track down the analogy between the real and the virtual world and find the mysterious link between the physical and paranormal planet.

Writer-director Vikram K Kumar employs an innovative storytelling technique by not resorting to the antique body-possessed-by-spirit formula or exorcist emancipation approach. Rather the horror is induced through contemporary gadgetry like cellphone, television set, elevators, electric bulb and other such elements of everyday use which the viewer can easily identify with thereby relating to the protagonist’s panic. With the modern milieu, the screenplay doesn’t opt for the obvious thereby teasing your anticipation.