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Raaz (Thriller Movie ,)  Starring
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Synopsis
The story of Raaz is a thriller-haunting stuff. Aditya Dhandraj (Dino Morea) and his wife Sanjana Dhanraj (Bipasha Basu) are a
young couple whose marriage is in trouble.
Due to various reasons, the two find themselves on the brink of a divorce. In a bid to give their marriage one last chance, they
decide to get to Ooty, the place where they fell in love, for a break.
Ooty experience, however, turns out to be an absolute nightmare. Their house in Ooty turns out to be haunted and that too by someone
whom only Sanjana can see. While this drives a further wedge into their already deteriorating relationship, the fact remains that
there is a spirit that haunts the house. Rest of the movie revolves around this.
Review
“Raaz” director Vikram Bhatt has dared to be different and made a middle-of-the-road film with strong supernatural overtones. He,
however, seems to have taken some inspiration from Hitchcock’s eerie style. The film is full of long shot horror sequences marked by
over-stretched silences that are broken with spine-chilling sound-effects—the hallmark of Hitchcock.
So it turns out that the spirit of a girl named Malini (played by Malini herself) haunts Sanjana (Bipasha). Who is Malini? She is
Aditya’s (Dino Morea) ex-lover. And there is a gory secret to her death.
Troubled by Malini’s apparition following her like a shadow, Sanjana approaches professor Agni (Ashutosh Rana) who is a half-way
shaman with his own idiosyncratic opinions about the dark world.
Armed with Prof. Agni’s admonitions Sanjana swallows the anger at her husband’s infidelity (in keeping Malini a secret) and gears to
take on the wandering spirit. The end, of course, sees the triumph of good over the evil.
Mahesh Bhatt has convincingly spun a spooky yarn and Vikram Bhatt has further lent it a sinister edge with his directorial finesse.
Rather than straightaway hopping onto the horror-filled chills and sequences, Vikram gradually builds up the suspense and uses special
effects deftly to give the viewer the creeps.
After a glamorous debut in “Ajnabee”, Bipasha Basu delivers a serious performance of a frightened girl chased by a wandering ghost.
She uses her eyes beautifully, and swings from one emotion to another adroitly. Only she needs to get a command over her dialogue
delivery and voice modulation.
Dino Morea, on the other hand, often resorts to hamming and needs to portray his emotions convincingly.
The film’s songs, composed by Nadeem-Shravan, are not in consonance with its spooky theme.