A punctured film!! CHAL PHOONK . Review on Phoonk

Saturday evening and old buddies dropped in my office. The underwear pals who know me inside out! Since this was a reunion after long so we planned to extend it as much as possible. And after much quibbling and brain storming, as a toast to all the horrendous moments we have lived together we ultimately settled for watching a horror movie together.

And as the destiny had it, we were finally at one of our laptops looking for a ticket. Now before I proceed further let me remind you of one thing. Do you remember how we use to haggle at college canteen to make each one of us pay for a bloody 3 Rs. Samosa?  Quite shamelessly we use to pounce upon one another with- “I did pay yesterday it’s your turn now!!” “Bullshit sle tu kabhi nahi deta hai aaj tu pay karega!!” “Oye mere khaate mein jod le* next time I will pay”. “

Main kahaa se doon mere paas paise hi nahi hai”. And moreover friends when no female company around we men folk certainly stop to behave like gentlemen (which I accept I am not) and behave like rookies, bumchums, cheapsters of first order. But believe me it’s a delight to shamelessly haggle with old pals after so long. We felt like we are in college again and we are reliving the past of who is going to pay this time. After a dozen of abbey tabey sle ktte, it was decided that one of us will be using his credit card and the rest would pay him in cash. Mind-blowing!! We could not stoop any lower than this.

But while all these confusion and dirty(men) talks were going in my office the seats of PVRs, Adlabs and EDMs were getting filled. So our last booking option saw us sitting at Satyam Nehru Place in the front row at 6:30. We visualized us in the first row with head perched high trying hard to see the whole screen turning heads left and then right! Scary!! My office peon came to be of help and we rushed him to book the tickets for next show that was on 11 O’ Clock. And the rest 3-4 ours were spent on booze and remembering all the stupid things which we did in college campus and on our excursion trips. Which now make us laugh on ourselves and leave a smile on our face.

Now about Ramu’s Phoonk!! This is one man who loves living in the past. Recreating, re- structuring, remodeling what we have already lived so far. The edgy first few reels made us remind of RAAT. Remember how anxious we were to tumble upon a living bhoot and all we did find were sounds, sounds and more sounds. Sounds those made you shudder in your red all plush comfy seats and were sometimes irritating. We looked everywhere on the screen to find the living ghost. At the center, at the corners, under the sofa on the screen, behind the pillar, around the car, atop the tree but all we found was a stupid crow and abrupt sounds to make you shudder first than drowse you in sheer frustration of not catching the ghost again.

But this one movie has a crazy angle too!! It very well showcases the cause behind Ramu’s turning into a BINGO Mad Angle director. The screen- was flooded with crazy toys, artifacts playing with which, Ramu has grown up to be Ram Gopal Verma. You must see these to believe. All crazy, stupid and queer ones which you normally don’t find in normal homes! So now we know whom to blame for our only only 10000080 Ramu Paagal Baba. Beware parents if you gift any of those toys to your kids you are making one more Ramu in your Home.

The movie is about a vengeful couple resorting to black magic to find their means. Or vice-versa, it is about a troubled couple whose cute little daughter has been set upon to take revenge.

Could be one time watch if you are hell bent upon living those sounds and shudders, for us it was sheer nostalgic pleasure as we were having all the fun at the cost of audiences seated next to us with our crazy comments like- seeing a close up of a crazy toy one of my friends quipped “dekho ramu baitha hai”, or when we saw three crazy toys together we could not help exclaiming “ramu, ramu ki maa ramu ka puuppaa” or when a song ended up with the words “come on boy” I replied “I am coming”.

My reco- 3 out of 5 for all those restructuring, remodelling and recreating!! Thank you Ramu for making me live RAAT again!!