Ragini MMS 2
Since her ghostly encounter, Ragini is now locked up in an asylum, yet her MMS has gone viral, prompting a film director to make a film based on her using the same haunted house.
Director: Bhushan Patel
Writers: Tanveer Bookwala (story), Ishita Moitra (dialogue)
Stars: Sunny Leone, Saahil Prem, Parvin Dabas
Director: Bhushan Patel
Writers: Tanveer Bookwala (story), Ishita Moitra (dialogue)
Stars: Sunny Leone, Saahil Prem, Parvin Dabas
Storyline
The film revolves around a haunted house where an infamous MMS is shot on a girl called Ragini which goes viral. the girl kills her boyfriend and claims that a witch had killed him. She ends up in a mental asylum. Later a film is planned based on the story, the same haunted house being the location of the film. Sunny Leone is cast to play the role or Ragini. Sunny goes to meet Ragini to understand her role better. But the meeting turns out violent. On one hand Ragini's doctor tries to solve the mystery and on the other hand shooting starts with unexplainable events. Junior artists get killed one by one. At last the scriptwriter Satya and Dr. Dutta have to fight the ghost to stay alive and save Sunny.
Details
Country: India
Language: Hindi | Marathi
Release Date: 21 March 2014 (India)
Country: India
Language: Hindi | Marathi
Release Date: 21 March 2014 (India)
Technical Specs
Runtime: 119 min
Color: Color
Making a good horror movie is a tough job. Modern day digitally connected, and increasingly rational audience is notoriously demanding fresh takes at traditional horror concepts. This is also leading to fusion of genres. Ragini MMS2 is one such genre mix- horror and sex.
I know Balaji Telefilms has taken it upon them to be "bold" but a movie such as this starring a porn star in and as a porn star is questionable. The original Ragini MMS had some amount of originality- a couple unknowingly going to a haunted house to shoot a MMS and becoming the target of an evil spirit.
In a recent interview, Sunny is quoted to have said that directors approach her with scripts just to find a reason to meet her. Parvin Dabas plays one such sleazy director, who comes up with this brilliant idea of shooting a movie based on the plot of the first movie, at the same spooky house. He also wants real actors, not big stars and strangely so, he selects the one actor who has made a career out of faking it, as the lead. Rest of the plot is a lift from the recently released The Conjuring- creaky house, an angry poltergeist, possession, levitating chairs, missing children, human sacrifice, a tree hanging, the spirit embodied in an object from the past- all is been there done that category.
It is a known fact that clothes and Sunny do not like each other. So much to the satisfaction of front row whistle blowers, all throughout the movie, she features in various stages of undress. At one point, Sunny says that she wants to research for her role. To which the director pulls out an epic quote- "Porno se Rituporno kab ban gayi". In many ways, this statement sums up Sunny's real life quest for respect in the acting world. But can the audience ever stop objectifying her? Surely, not when she is thrusting out her assets at the slightest instance, and indulging in sex in the lake, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, and in the rain.
And surprisingly though, she acts pretty well, especially considering how insipidly written the other characters are. Director Bhushan Patel ensures that decent actors like Sandhya Mridul, Dabas, and Divya Dutta come out unintentionally funny. Divya Dutta is an incredible character in herself- she is a psychiatrist who moonlights as an exorcist! The crazy cinematography has ghosts appearing in almost every alternate frame, but with no sense of drama and hence leaves little impact. Even her porn movies have seen better direction. So ultimately you only get to do the guy thing and admire Leone's body.
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