Phoonk

After Darna Zaroori Hai, Ram Gopal Varma once again came out with the horror movie Phoonk. This time he used black magic as the main theme. Varma knows how to scare people with sounds and lonely places and silent scenes. But he kept away from all those things in this movie.

He concentrated on two things. One is black magic and the second about the people who don't believe in black magic, which was refelcted by the two leads in the movie.


Rajiv (Sudeep) is a successful contractor and an atheist with a good family, a beautiful wife, a daughter and a son. He never believes in God, ghosts and evil. But later struggles with the evil and depends on God and magicians. With this character the director justifies his tag line Its a Superstition Until It Happens To You.

One of Rajiv's business rival Anshuman (Kenny Desai seen in Black) and his wife Madhu (Ashwini Kalsekar) wants to destroy Rajiv's family. Madhu applies black magic on Rajiv's daughter. Rajiv thinks that it is a disease but later realises it is not and tries to protect his daughter.


Ram Gopal Varma failed to handle this horror flick. He took a wrong step in the story line and could not connect the two aspects of the story. No one expects this type of movie from Varma in the horror genre. Music director Amar Mohile tried his best to give life to movie. Camera work by Savita Singh in the movie is incredible.

Kannada Chocolate Boy Sudeep played a lead role as Rajiv and was impressive. Ahsaas Channa as daughter of Rajiv gave a good performance for her age. All the remaining characters are okay. But Ashwini Kalsekar fame of Aashiq Banaya Aapne is very bad with most of the people finding her annoying.