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Raaz Reboot A: Horror-thriller Director: Vikram Bhatt Cast: Gaurav Arora, Kriti Kharbanda, Emraan Hashmi Rating: <img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/jan/1-half-stars.gif" alt="" width="59" height="11" />&nbsp;
The mangalsutra in this movie, if you may, is the Hindu equivalent of Hollywood&rsquo;s holy-cross that usually stands between mere mortals, and the evil spirit. This particular mangalsutra is also doubly blessed, as the mother-in-law puts it. Because, you know, it was taken to the &lsquo;Jai Mata Di Vaishno Devi&rsquo; temple for an added layer of protective cover.
Well. Now, this mangalsutra is broken. Damn. And then it goes missing altogether. Which is simply catastrophic. A newbie (Kriti Kharbanda) &mdash; fairly pleasant face for the screen if you ask me &mdash; plays the wife, who&rsquo;s possessed.
But who&rsquo;s the husband? Fans of this franchise, and Emraan Hashmi in general, ought to be warned. This isn&rsquo;t by any stretch a Hashmi picture. He&rsquo;s hardly there. And whether he kisses or not is just so pass&eacute; to make mention of anymore. The hero (Gaurav Arora; again a debutant, I presume) looks like a cross between a pauper&rsquo;s version of Prince (the singer), and Karan Singh Grover (Bipasha&rsquo;s husband).
There is much English-speaking going on in here. This is slightly odd since the main target audience for &ldquo;supernaturals&rdquo; is quite often the Hindi hinterland. The film is set in pristine, sanitised Romania. The married couple lives in a haunted mansion that could ideally house a hundred-odd Romanians.
The wife&rsquo;s already attacked the husband with a kitchen knife. But the husband, like all disbelieving candidates in a horror show, can&rsquo;t see how his wife could be under the influence of a foreign body living within. &ldquo;Do you still love her,&rdquo; his friends ask him. &ldquo;More than ever,&rdquo; he tells them.
In a fine statement on inclusive secularism, the characters employ Christian exorcism, Hindu sacred text, clairvoyant, tarot-card reader, and one &ldquo;psychometry&rdquo; specialist to get rid of the ghost, encompassing alongside a whole bunch of bread-and-butter horror pictures you may have seen in the past. Most of them quite often owe their origins to the good old, unholy trinity: Omen, Exorcist and Poltergeist series.
This one, of course, is the fourth installment of Raaz. It&rsquo;s called Reboot, I&rsquo;m told, because of some copyright issues.
Besides a couple of &lsquo;Raazes&rsquo;, one loses count of how many such pictures Vikram Bhatt has filmed in the past &mdash; Intehaa, Aetbaar, 1920, Shapit, Haunted etc. etc. Sure, it&rsquo;s predictable stuff. But that&rsquo;s to do with the genre, which like mindless comedy, is fairly easy to judge or appreciate.
There is a meter ticking inside your head that registers how many times you&rsquo;ve felt fear inside the dark hall. That&rsquo;s pretty much it. And I&rsquo;m sorry, I felt nothing. To be fair (up until a fine climax), they don&rsquo;t try too hard to scare us much either.

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Fans of this franchise, and Emraan Hashmi in general, ought to be warned. This isn't by any stretch a Hashmi picture. He&rsquo;s hardly there. And whether he kisses or not is just so unnecessary to make mention of anymore

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