KHAMOSHIYAN - Silences have Secrets:UNCENSORED Trailer | Ali Fazal, Gurmeet Choudhary,Sapna Pabbi
Cast: Ali Fazal, Sapna Pabbi and Gurmeet Choudhury
Director: Karan Darra
Rating: *
There’s very little to say about ‘Khamoshiyan’ – it has silenced me into a kind of horrific disbelief that its makers would have found entirely unintended. How long before we are able to even attempt a reworking of our horror flicks?
This, ostensibly, is an “erotic thriller”. The erotica and thrills, however, are sorely missing. Most saas-bahu serials on the telly these days have racier content.
To say nothing of the absurdities provided by way of purported thrills. No degree of suspension of disbelief would make the audience buy what’s on offer here: sketchy blood-drinking villains, vile possessed hounds, and zombies that look less scary than most mothers-in-law on TV.
It is also baffling to see the one-book wonder protagonist continue to inhabit a dwelling place that is a source of such terror and anguish to him. I mean, consider this, would you carry on living in a setting with such massive antecedents of evil when the easier, and the most logical, option is to get the hell out of there?
It’s at times like these that I miss the hold that Ram Gopal Verma displayed over his craft - the spine-tingling restraint of ‘Raat’ (1992), the sinister unraveling of Urmila’s character in ‘Kaun’ (1999) ,or even the direct menace of ‘Bhoot’ (2003). Varma evokes more with eerie silences and dark corners than Darra manages with CGI and an all-out blast of what he considers are essential elements of horror.There is really no point discussing the acting – the actors are saddled with a flimsy script. It’s good boy Ali Fazal’s first attempt at horrex (horror + sex) and while he approaches his role in all sincerity, it is obvious that he is well out of his comfort zone.
Ali Fazal kind of holds the first half together, simply because we are still confused about the dead husband. But post interval it all collapses into a heap of inanity. Frankly speaking, there is just too much noise in ‘Khamoshiyan’.