Double Trouble
Film: Alone
Cast: Bipasha Basu, Karan Singh Grover
Directed by: Bhushan Patel
Duration: 2 hrs 20 mins
Rating: * 1 / 2
A remake of the Thai film of the same name, Alone directed
by Bhushan Patel stars Bipasha Basu in a double role as conjoined twins.
Excruciatingly painful and frustrating this horror film scares you with boredom
rather than fright. Pity you can’t even take a peaceful nap while watching it
because someone or the other keeps screaming ever so often minutes.
When she is forced to go back to her Kerala home, Sanjana
(Bipasha) is haunted by her sisters spirit Anjana (Bips again). They used to be
conjoined twins till the surgery went wrong. Now Sanjana is with her muscular
boyfriend (Karan Singh Grover) in the haunted house because her mother is being
treated in the hospital. That gives the ghoul a free hand to traumatize her
sister and the audience alike. Except that the sibling is scared and you are frustrated
watching all the standard usual tropes.
A doctor (Zakir Hussain) investigates the matter with
alarming idiocy and when his limited skills fail, a priest is summoned to do
the trick. “Just how there are two types of human beings, there are two types
of ghosts as well” he enlightens you.
Bipasha Basu just goes through the motions and the I.Q of
Karan Singh Grover’s character is the same as his waist line.
Horror films are usually palatable but rarely has a ghost
been so annoying.
Published in The Navhind Times on 18th January 2015
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