Movie Review : Raaz - The Mystery Continues

The team behind Razz - The Mystery Continues have often clarified that it is not a sequel to Raaz, one of the most interesting cinematic experiences, besides being the biggest Hit of that year. Yet, you can not but draw parallels with the first movie of the franchise.

 

MOVIENAME
Raaz - The Mystery Continues
Director
Mohit Suri
Producer
Mukesh Bhatt
Star Cast
Emraan Hashmi
Adhyayan Suman
Kangana Ranaut
Releasing Date
23 January 2009

Horror as a genre has not been tapped to the optimum in India. We have witnessed spooky fares in the past and some of them have succeeded in making you break in to a cold sweat (Bhoot stands tall in this list). Last year’s Phoonk and 1920 were scary films as well.
There is tremendous curiosity to watch Raaz - The Mystery Continues, but does it scare the living daylights out of you? Fortunately, yes!


The story (Mohit Suri) is absorbing and Mohit treats the subject like a veteran, as if he knows the genre very well. There are moments that make your heart beat faster, you watch the events with eyes and jaws wide open. Sure, there are blemishes as well, but they do not overpower the plusses or make you change your opinion about the movie.While the beginning and the middle of the movie is engrossing, it is the end that could have been better thought of.
Wanna get scared? Wanna get goose pimples? Buy the ticket for Raaz - The Mystery Continues pronto. It lives up to the hype and expectations completely.
A brooding artist Prithvi (Emraan Hashmi) experiences mysterious and distressing visions about Nandita (Kangana Ranaut), a woman he has never met, while he paints on canvas. Intrigued by these visions, Prithvi tracks her down and warns her that these are not merely paintings of her, but accidents that are waiting to happen.

At first, Nandita refuses to believe him and dismisses him as an eccentric stalker. However, the striking resemblance between Prithvi’s paintings and the near death incidents in her life is hard to ignore.
Now, one of Prithvi’s paintings has revealed her as dead. The only way she can change her fate is to unravel this mystery with his help, at the risk of alienating herself from her boyfriend, Yash (Adhyayan Suman). But he refuses to believe in Prithvi’s premonitions. Will Nandita risk her love and her life to unravel this mystery?
Most of us have heard, witnessed or perhaps had a first hand experience of supernatural. The present day generation may, perhaps, term it as wild imagination or hallucination, while the believers may have their point of view. Mohit and screenplay writer Shagufta Rafique’s characters in Raaz - The Mystery Continues are believers and non believers, both.
ohit smartly builds up the atmosphere. Sample these: Emraan and Kangana’s first encounter at a mall and minutes later, inside an elevator; the New Year bash when Kangana is ‘attacked’ by spirits; Kangana’s experience in her bathtub and also when she looks at the mirror, Kangana almost jumping off a cliff; the highpoint sequence, when angry bulls attack Emraan and Kangana. Incredible sequences all! Mohit has handled the most difficult portions with panache.
However, the entire flashback part, towards the pre-climax, is not as convincing. The ending too could have been better in terms of writing, although Mohit has filmed it exceptionally well.
Mohit’s choice of the subject as also the actors is right. This is, without doubt, his finest effort to date. Shagufta’s screenplay is watertight at most times. Like always, the Bhatts come up with a lilting musical score and at least two songs — ‘Soniyo (Raju Singh) and ‘Maahi’ (Sharib-Toshi) — are first rate compositions. Ravi Walia’s cinematography is up to the mark. The effects are impressive.