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1920 Movie Review



Movie Details
Release Date : 12 September 2008
Genre : Thriller
Director : Vikram Bhatt
Cast : Rajneesh Duggal, Barkha Bhist, Dilip Thadeshwar, Amita Bishnoi, Vipin Sharma, Sri Vallabh Vyas, Amin Hajee, Ashish Pradhan, Rushitaa Pandya, Adah Shar





Synopsis

The year is 1920 and the house is isolated in the wilderness has a secret. It is waiting for the curse to come true. For years everyone who has bought the house and tried to pull it down has died under strange circumstances. It is like the house has a will and a life of its own. Arjun (Rajneesh Duggal) and his wife Lisa (Adah Sharma) move into the house and he has been given the task of pulling it down and making a hotel there. The haunting begins.
Strange and inexplicable events start taking place. The curse says they will not survive. The only thing they have that is true is the love they once shared, which is now under the shadow of doubt. They will have to depend on the love and faith if they are to come out of this alive






Movie Trailer

1920 - Trailer 2008 | Promo 1 (1920) | Vikram Bhatt | HQ

Movie Storyline
This is what i made of the story
The movie should be looked up as two part movie. Before the girl gets haunted and after that.
Now the story is the usual horror/thriller genre. A old haunted "Haveli" exists in pre-partition India. The owner of the Haveli is bent on creating it into a 5 star hotel so that it can be used to service the British. Only problem is that all those architects who go there end up being killed quite gorily. The "Chownkidaar" of the haveli knows its haunted but he is asked to stay quite by the owner.



Enter our hero and (very very cute Heroine )



Now the heroine is half british half Indian thanks to her fathers shady history(some crap) and this hero of ours has fallen for her and while eloping he meets his parents who happen to be the nawabs of the place. they take offence to our hero wanting to marry a low moral birth lady and some fighting happens. In all this the very pious staunch Hindu hero of ours renounces his religion and beats up his own family and goes to Bombay to start life afresh.



In Bombay he comes a successful architect only to get the same work to revamp the Haveli.

So they come to the Haveli where as soon as they land up the girl starts seeing the ghost(voices, tables, sounds and the crap) The hero thinks its her imagination. Meanwhile the girl goes to the church and asks the father to take a look. the father blesses the Haveli only to have the ghost visit the father at night and threaten him to keep away
Anyway so after this the hero has to go out and the girl is left alone and after the usual and expected scary scenes, the girl is captured by the ghost(As in he enters her body)lost.

Part 1 over

Now the second part is utter crap The haunted lady starts behaving the same manner vidya balan of "Bhool Bulaiya" acted after the ghost had entered her body. Wild gesticulations and the manly voice of the ghost takes over the cute Adah She is not looking beautiful at all

Anyway now the priest comes and says he can help but the hero and the doctor who thinks its multiple personality disorder tell him to get out. Only they regret the move as ghost gets more violent and tells that she will kill her in 4 days(the ghost is already in her body remember)


Anyway the movie is about to end now and it follows predictable line. See spoiler




Ok the movie is not scary. Its ok'ish and in good scotlandish settings. The first half is good, the second is not.
Adah Sharma and Rajneesh Duggal are both good. Adah is very very pretty and she has a nice soothing voice, just right for the role and the film. Its a ok movie, ok for time pass otherwise.

If you loved Adah (here: 1920 Music Launch Photos) then you have to watch the movie