Nanu Ki Jaanu

All said and done, there are good films, there are bad films, there is MSG franchise and then there's this. It hurts to see talent of such superior level going down the drain. Skip this, please!

...the biggest mystery of all remains, did the person who invested in this excuse for celluloid do so out of free will? We'll never know.

Manu Rishi, who has written the film, has his heart in the right place, but seems to have misplaced his brain.

Suffice it to say, by the end of Nanu Ki Jaanu, pretty much everyone in my theatre (me included) were essentially laughing at the film, rather than with it

Is it a comedy? Is it horror? Is it social drama? Is it funny? Is it a weird love story? No one quite knows and when everything is piled on so thick, you begin to wonder as audience if you have lost your capacity to care. The background music is ideal for saturday morning cartoons and is so loud you want to order ear plugs. At 132.47 minutes, you idly wonder if they would be easily delivered before you would turn permanently deaf.

At 132 minutes, the film is 132 minutes too long and time seems to stand still as it meanders along before finally reaching its predictable ending. This is one of those remakes that should never have seen the light of day.

If all this wasn't enough there is a casual, pointless reference to beef lynchings and moral science lessons on mobiles and helmets. Forget the ghost, the film will leave you spooked with the many hairy male bodies on display; under the shower, in the bed. And that's all I am saying for ...