Roohi movie review: The film neither scares nor tickles your funny bone
Rajkummar and Varun are the âlife-saversâ of the film, and their performances are on-point
At last, after the complete shut-down of cinema halls across the country, 2021 has seen another theatrical release â Roohi starring Janhvi Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao and Varun Sharma amongst others. You may say that itâs a time to rejoice for all cinema lovers but perhaps weâve jumped the gun a tad bit.
Slated as a horror-comedy, a new genre that mutated into being, after Stree emerged winner at the box office, Roohi is the second offering from the same production house with almost the same star cast. One did expect some fireworks or perhaps an encore of the quality of Stree. Unfortunately, forget the band-baaja, the film is a damp squib and does not live up to any lofty expectations in any way.
Roohi Review: Best To Lay The Ghost Of Janhvi Kapoor s Horror-Comedy To Rest
Roohi Review: Best To Lay The Ghost Of Janhvi Kapoor s Horror-Comedy To Rest
Roohi Review: Rajkummar Rao is funny in parts but as the absurdist plot careens out of control, he looks as lost as the feckless character he is on the screen.
Roohi Review: Janhvi Kapoor in a still from the film. (Image courtesy: YouTube )
Cast: Janhvi Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao, Varun Sharma
Director: Hardik Mehta
Rating: 2 stars (out of 5)
A wild, weird goulash of heavy-handed hinterland hocus-pocus, perplexing pop psychology and dashes of broad humour pressed into the service of a horror-comedy,
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It’s been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country. Two of the films playing in theatres at that point were ANGREZI MEDIUM, produced by Dinesh Vijan, and KAAMYAAB, directed by Hardik Mehta. In an interesting turn of events, ROOHI, the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas, is helmed by both these personalities. So does ROOHI manage to entertain and enthral the audiences? Or does it fail to entice? Let’s analyse.
ROOHI is the story of a possessed girl. Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town, Baagadpur. They also specialise in