Raaz 3

Genre : Horror
Director : Vikram Bhatt

Plot

Bipasha Basu (Shanaya) is a successful actress but her dream to be the best actress of the year is shattered by an upcoming actress Sanjana (Esha Gupta). To take revenge from her, she seeks help from a black magic specialist.

Review

Many of you might have heard several black magic stories and to be truthful, it is not at all different from those you might have already heard or watched. The concept is stale now and Vikram Bhatt has done nothing to revive that. ‘Raaz 3: The Third Dimension’ is actually on third dimension just with the stereoscopic 3D effects and not some concept.

Fore mostly I haven’t watched any of the Esha Gupta movies and I am also not a big fan of Emraan Hashmi movies and the feeling is more intense over his last watch Shanghai. Is Esha Gupta hot? Well yes she looks stunning in the movie. But does Esha Gupta know how to act? I’ll give a big no to it. She basically irritates with her acting most of the time. Any other character has not done any better wonders as well. The dialog delivery is pathetic too. Moreover the dialogs themselves are poorly written.There are certain things which were really good and could have been much effective if had directed nicely. The chills of the movies are good and look effective in 3D. That’s where the movie is particularly fine. It manages to make you stir in some scenes. The sound effects I would say were impressive and commendable. Many a things looks like copied from the Hollywood movies. A lot of scenes are what we have already seen somewhere. 

Please see to it that the film is not a sequel to ‘Raaz: the mystery continues” and neither was that a sequel to ‘Raaz’. They are just trying to earn on the brand name. Raaz 3 songs are nice but have no place in the movie and are stuffed in forcefully. Display of sex is how Vikram tends to attract viewers these days. Esha Gupta has gone all nude for a scene which is one of the scenes that could have been more effective. But with all the funny looking dialogs and characters it became a bit dull. The concept of black magic spells could have been made so much better for sure.

Lastly, if you have seen a raaz 3 trailer than you already know what to expect.  With zero expectations you might think it’s a nice one time watch. Though it doesn’t stand anywhere on the critical standards with poor script and poor acts and poor direction, it is definitely a onetime average watch with some decent scares, pretty nice sound effects and cool 3D effects considering Indian cinema. Horror watchers can definitely watch it as it is actually better than what we have seen in recent years (especially by Ram Gopal Verma).

An average horror fare

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