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Songs
1.Apnaa Mujhe Tu Lagaa
2.Uska Hi Banana
Director: Bhushan Patel
Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai and Vidya Malvade
Director Vikram Bhatt made an okay-ish horror film called 1920 in 2008. It managed to earn decent money at the box-office. Maybe someone gave him the bright idea that he should bank on the name and make a franchise. The result is a laugh-a-riot called 1920: Evil Returns. Yes, you are reading it right. The film is so unintentionally funny that we suspect that the producer actually wanted to make a comedy.
The film is supposedly set in some hill station during the ‘20s. Indians live in large villas and dress like British nobility and drive around in closed carriages drawn by gleaming English horses. Or should we say Swedish horses as the film was shot in Sweden. That’s ingenuity for you alright -- making pristine Sweden stand in for an Indian hill station. Probably Bhatt and company forgot that there might be old British era houses in places like Dehradun and Mussoorie. But that would be actually taking your subject seriously, right. Perhaps director Bhushan Patel didn’t want that. We’ll never know. So the less said about production and period details, the better.
The story (or the lack of it) revolves around, India’s best poet Jaidev Verma (Aftab Shivdasani) falling in love with a mysterious woman called Smriti (Tia Bajpai), who’s seemingly possessed by an evil spirit. How Jaidev goes out saving his beloved forms the crux of this (non) story.
We would have forgotten and forgiven the lax pace, the hotchpotch screenplay and shoddy editing if Tia Bajpai was scary and/or sexy. That she is neither is the main flaw of the film. We have the mandatory barfing scene and the body contortions galore but sadly they fail to send any chills down our spine. Another way of inducing horror is to bring about a suffocating atmosphere and the director fails to bring that about too.
No one asked it to come and let’s hope this kind of evil doesn’t return to our screens again.
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