‘EK thi   DAAYAN’ Movie Review- Tanmay Dubey

Starring :-  Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechin, Huma Qureshi

Director:- Kannan Iyer

A witch’s Power lies in her braid (Choti ), and a Devil’s power in his neck, what if the two powers lock horns ? As a result you get a film which is as tightly woven as a Witch’s braid and screenplay as strong as a Devil’s neck. The movie watching experience then becomes like a juggler’s walk in a tight rope.

Bobo (Hashmi) is a famed magician (Shooting most of the performances in ‘Kingdom of Dreams’ Read: Gurgaon…but shot as Mumbai in the film), the ghosts (quite literally) of his troubled past returns and he fights to find the truth behind them. The movie thankfully does not uses the clichés of ‘kill bhoot with the help of God’ stuff and scores over other films of the same genre by its unique concept, nice music, and tight thriller like execution. (Kudos to the Director for that !)  

All the lead actors perform very well. Emraan Hashmi convinces you with his vulnerable expressions,(he is increasingly becoming the poster boy of Indian Horror films) Huma Qureshi is very beautiful , I am sure if she sheds couple of kilos from the right places her screen presence will get enhanced multifold. She is quite shabbily dressed in the film devouring the audience of any chance to see any extra flesh, despite her covered up sex appeal she gets a chance to kiss Hashmi ! Konkana is simply brilliant. Her eyes act more than her voice in this film. The child actors too are good.  

The horror quotient in this film comes more from sudden shocks than ugly faces. Vishaal Bhardwaj apart being the co-producer of the film has written Dialogues and Music for the film which are very good considering this being a horror film. Songs like Yaaram and Tote ud gaye has a distinct Vishaal Bhardwaj- Gulzar's sweet touch. Debutant Director Kannan Iyer does an impressive job putting up this film. His earlier works include assisting Shekhar Kapoor in ‘Bandit Queen’. A word of appreciation for Ekta Kapoor, who has an eye and an ear for such smart scripts. No wonder Balaji is one of the top (money making) production houses in Indian Film Industry.

The climax is little over the top, and the suspense has some loose ends but that’s what cinematic liberty is all about. Isn’t it ?

Score Stack Up:-

+ ive:-  Good Horror, suspense and thrill with nice music and good dialogues.

-  ive:-  not recommended for children !

Box Office, Paisa Vasool Rating:- 3. 25 out of 5

Tanmay's Rating : 3.25 out of 5



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Scores Classifications- 

(5)  Very Good, Must Watch 

(4)   Good, Should Watch 

(3)   Not Bad;

(2)  One Time Watch; 

(1)  On your own risk;