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Rakht

Watch it only if the ticket comes with free ear buds. Or better still, if the ear buds come with a free ticket.

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Rakht
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Directed by Last year Ram Gopal Verma's Bhoot opened the doors to a spiffy new-age Bollywood ghost. That spirit still lingers on. Only the modern apparitions have already started becoming as musty as the Ramsay visions. Blame the filmmakers. Manjrekar thinks that the Bhoot brand of sound effects are enough to concoct an instant supernatural thriller. In thinking so, he commits the same mistakes as did Kushan Nandy in 88 Antop Hill. So excessive is the obsession with sound that instead of going to the edge of your seat you'd want to leave the show midway with an annoying headache. Every knock at the door, every turn of the head, every footstep, everything is one big noise with no ominous atmospherics or lingering menace to justify the jarring jolts.

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It exposes a total lack of basic story-telling ability. Needless to say it's borrowed largely from The Gift, Eyes of Laura Mars and The Sixth Sense. Bipasha is a tarot card reader who also sees ghosts. Amongst her clients is Neha who regularly gets beaten by her husband Morea. Shetty is a mechanic with an abused childhood and Dutt plays a school principal with a perennially underdressed fiancee (Amrita) for arm candy. When the fiancee cops it, Bipasha steps in to trace the killer. However, there's precious little to keep you guessing about the murderer. In fact, the revelation seems to have been shoved into the plot out of sheer necessity. After all, what has been started also has to end. Somehow!

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Most of the characters are so flat that they get defined by the mere look. So, Bipasha looks perplexed, Neha looks blank, Dutt looks bored, Morea looks crooked, Shetty twitches hard. Amrita doesn't look anything considering her body, most of it bare, has to do all the talking . There's also a Yana "item" Gupta and AB "also item" Junior showing that he can pout better than Bipasha, besides the two ghosts, one of whom leaves behind a steel container full of ladoos, another a hanky, as gifts for Bipasha. Touching!

Statutory warning: Watch Rakht only if the ticket comes with free ear buds. Or better still, if the ear buds come with a free ticket.

Indian Top 5
1. Dhoom
2. Rakht
3. Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
4. Anaconda 2
5. Fida

US Top 5
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3. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
4. Paparazzi
5. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

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