AGYAAT REVIEW

Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Cast: Nitin Reddy, Priyanka Kothari, Gautam Rode, Joy Fernandes, Rasika Duggal, Ishteyak Khan, Ishrat Ali, Ravi Kale, Howard Rosemeyer and Kali Prasad Mukerjee
Release Date: 2009-08-07 08:00:00
Quick Take: Agyaat is eminently forgettable, pointless nonsense


Ten people of a film unit land themselves in Sigiriya Forest in Sri Lanka and eight of them get killed by something unknown. It would have been unfair to tell the story in one line had this been a horror film. But Agyaat is an insult to all those who enjoy getting spooked at movies. Let's not even dignify the film by comparing it to The Predator or The Blair Witch Project. Let‘s just look at what the film is: a two hour long unashamed trailer for Agyaat part 2.

Why each of the ten people have to be strange we do not know, but they are. That‘s the reason why we don‘t care when they die. One has an unlit cigarette dangling from his lips at all times, another chews on a pencil. The heroine goes traipsing in the jungle wearing a tennis skirt, and jogs in white boots. Her workout routine is the funniest thing one has seen in cinema. Not one but two guys make strange guttural sounds. Yes, they all pass the grade when it comes to the saucer-eyed scared look, but when they are all goggle-eyed in one frame, it is not horror, it is unintentionally comical. Let's not get into logic at all and ask how and where the cine equipment and all those dancers showed up in the remote jungle. Let‘s not ask why nobody bothered to find out how one removes leaches from the body. Just pray that they did not leave the beautiful Sri Lankan forest in shambles.