Ek Thi Daayan
Direction: Kannan Iyer
Actors: Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin
Rating: **1/2 stars
Ek Thi Daayan
he good news is that Ek Thi Daayan, co-produced by Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj, manages that. The bad news is that the film only manages that in the first half.
Until the interval, debutant director Kannan Iyer had me pinned to my seat. Of course, first I had to get over the fact that the hero in this film, played by Emraan Hashmi, is called Bobo. He’s a magician, so people refer to him as Bobo the Baffler. Bobo starts to suffer from hallucinations. He undergoes hypnosis and discovers that in his childhood, he was terrorised by a woman named Diana, played by Konkona Sen Sharma, who may or may not have been a Daayan – that’s Hindi for witch. Kannan seamlessly transposes a rural old wives’ tale into an urban setting. The building lift becomes a passage to hell. But the screenplay by Mukul Sharma and Bhardwaj maintains an eerie ambiguity. Is the young Bobo, played very well by Vishesh Tiwari, simply over-reacting to the new woman in his widower father’s life or is she actually a murderous witch? There are moments here that made me jump. Konkona is deliciously wicked and at one point, I got so spooked that I closed my eyes.
Direction: Kannan Iyer
Actors: Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin
Rating: **1/2 stars
Ek
Thi Daayan releases today. The film features Huma Qureshi, Kalki
Koechlin, Konkona Sen and Emraan Hashmi. Take tour through these stills
from the movie.
he good news is that Ek Thi Daayan, co-produced by Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj, manages that. The bad news is that the film only manages that in the first half.
Until the interval, debutant director Kannan Iyer had me pinned to my seat. Of course, first I had to get over the fact that the hero in this film, played by Emraan Hashmi, is called Bobo. He’s a magician, so people refer to him as Bobo the Baffler. Bobo starts to suffer from hallucinations. He undergoes hypnosis and discovers that in his childhood, he was terrorised by a woman named Diana, played by Konkona Sen Sharma, who may or may not have been a Daayan – that’s Hindi for witch. Kannan seamlessly transposes a rural old wives’ tale into an urban setting. The building lift becomes a passage to hell. But the screenplay by Mukul Sharma and Bhardwaj maintains an eerie ambiguity. Is the young Bobo, played very well by Vishesh Tiwari, simply over-reacting to the new woman in his widower father’s life or is she actually a murderous witch? There are moments here that made me jump. Konkona is deliciously wicked and at one point, I got so spooked that I closed my eyes.
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