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I have been combating a bad bout of spondylitis over the last few weeks.
Durgamati has just made it worse. Not because I stayed up late into the night watching this latest Amazon Prime Video release (well, that too), but because I haven’t seen anyone twist and contort their neck in ways this unimaginable, that is ever since Linda Blair in
The Exorcist and Jim Carrey in
The Mask. The former is a seminal horror film, the latter one of the most rib-tickling comedies of all time. Durgamati, billed as ‘horror thriller’, is no spine-chiller, but it definitely is unintentionally hilarious. It also borders on the unwatchable, more often than not.
The plot of âDurgamati,â as we come to know by the end, is quite good. The layers that unfold in the last 30 minutes of the long (for the contents) marathon of 150 minutes-plus yearned for a decent execution that precedes the revelations, twists and counter-twists. We could mention a passing but vital resemblance to two classic films, one from the pre-1960s and one from the millennium, but doing that may mean part spoilers.
Durgamati, by the way, is a wronged queen who seeks revenge on her chief of army, who betrayed her, leading to her suicide. She is said to haunt a decrepit âhaveliâ (mansion) in which no one now lives. For reasons best known to those who wrote and directed the film, everyone in the vicinity is scared of going near (or in), and yet there is electric supply, a watchman sans hands and his wife as some kind of caretakers. And the venue is selected by the CBI (!!!!) as a place to shift murder-accused IAS officer Chanchal Chauhan (Bhumi Pednekar) te
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Female-centric films get acclaim but rarely emerge as a box office success. But the scenario is changing in the last few years. The trend has also been seen down South. In 2018, BHAAGMATHIE, starring Anushka Shetty, got a brilliant response in cinemas, collecting close to Rs. 50 crore worldwide. The film was loved for Anushka’s flawless performance, script, setting and of course, the unpredictable climax. Now its remake, DURGAMATI, is ready and has released on Amazon Prime video. So does DURGAMATI manage to impress viewers as much as the original version? Or does the remake fail to impress? Let’s analyse.