Pest Control
Film: Creature
Cast: Bipasha Basu, Imran Abbas, Mukul Dev
Directed by: Vikram Bhatt
Duration: 2 hrs 15 mins
Rating: * 1 / 2
If your vehicle breaks down in the jungle in the middle of
night and you hear scary sounds emanating from the forest will you, (a) Go
inside the forest to see who is making those sounds or (b) Stay put in the
vehicle and be alert.
In most horror flicks, the answer
is (a) and that is just one of the minor oddities in Creature that comes from the factory of director Vikram Bhatt’s scary
films. The premise is so silly that very often you find yourself chuckling over
the inane scenes that are meant to be scary. The only worrying factor was how
long will grate on your nerves before the creature is killed and they live
happily ever after - quite long as it turned out to be.
Literally set in a forest,
Bipasha Basu plays Ahana the owner of a new boutique hotel. She has left her
troubled past behind in Mumbai and is looking forward to this new venture.
But there is a creature lurking around
who goes around killing people for no rhyme or reason. We are told that this
Davy Jones looking cross between a dinosaur and lizard is called a Brahma rakshas
and his soul is in limbo. Only lord Brahma could have helped them but that
didn’t apply to the hapless audience.
The guests at the hotel are not
particularly pleased with the fact that their fellow residents limbs are being
chopped off by this rakshas. Very soon the bank officers comes knocking on her door to
recover the loan. With the help of a builder cum musician turned lover (Imran
Abbas), a zoologist (Mukul Dev) and a rakshas specialist who gives them
precious advice (the bullet has to be dipped in holy water), they overcome the
hurdle after a rather long drawn climax and also manages to keep her word with
the bank guys.
Having made several films of this
genre, Vikram Bhatt is very much on auto-pilot mode with all the standard
tropes. It all gets very exhausting by the end. To recover completely from it,
this is the advice I got “Poornima ki
raat, bottled water ke saath, char bottle vodka peeni padege” Teetotalers like
me have no hope in that case.
Published in The Navhind Times on 14th Sept 2014
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