August 07, 2009 Y. Sunita Chowdary
Cast: Nitin, Priyanka Kothari, Gautam Rode, Rasika Duggal, Ishteyak Khan, Ishrat Ali, Ravi Kale, Howard Rosemeyer, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Joy Fernandes and others.
Action: Javed Eijaz.
Banner: UTV Motion Pictures.
Background Music: Amar Mohile.
Choreography: Jani Basha & Howard Rosemeyer.
Cinematography: Surjodeep Ghosh.
Costume: Vyoma Kavdikar.
Editing: Nipun Gupta.
Music: Imran, Bapi & Tutul.
Sound: Dwarak Warrier & Leslie Fernandes.
Story: Nilesh Girkar & Puneet Gandhi.
Producer(s): Ram Gopal Varma & Ronnie Screwvala
Director: Ram Gopal Varma.
Release Date: August 07, 2009
A master at recycling films Ram Gopal Varma must be appreciated for making a film exclusively for the kids. For dishing out picturesque locations that look just straight out of a discovery or a national geographic channel, a few reptiles, an elephant, half a dozen leeches, a baboon thrown in here and there to give it an authentic feel. The waterfall from the gorge, the rain, the heightened sound, the background music all look so spectacular.
We must also thank him for substracting Priyanka Kothari's bikini song or else it would have been embarrassing for parents to watch it with the kids. But if this is the plot, and if this is the rate at which he keeps making thrillers and says Darna Zaroori Hai, even the kids will stop fearing the genre.
A film crew is shooting in the forest, the camera doesn't work and while they wait for a new one to step in, a man called Setu suggest they embark on a forest seeing trip. A sudden strange sound compels Setu to find out what it is all about and he never returns. Without a guide, directions they go all around, sometimes landing at the same place and in the process each one of them start getting killed, mauled by an unknown, inanimate object. With only the lead pair remaining, the assistant director and the heroine, the travails of the trapped couple increase in intensity.
Everytime the camera focuses on a member of the unit, you know it's their turn to disappear. Instead of instilling fear, the film makes you laugh and makes you wonder as to what is there in the subject that he had to direct, even a JD could have made Agyaat.
Finally the film ends without giving away the reason responsible for the deaths and asks you to wait for the sequel. RGV probably couldn't find one. If the film works he might actually start thinking.
Meanwhile, the dances..we have seen Nitin's skill long before, even before he came up with his eight packs. It's time to collect compliments from the Mumbaiwallas. He is just another character in the film and sinks into his role.
Priyanka vascillates, she has a puffed face in some shots. Agyaat is a film that will not make you want to know who or what the stuff is that makes people disappear. In short it is an aberration.
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