Vaastu Shastra: Promo Watch

By Gaurav Malani (IndiaFM News Bureau), August 02nd, 2004 - 1300 hrs IST


Cast: Sushmita Sen, Chakravarthy, Sayaji Shinde, Purab Kohli, Peeya Rai Chaudhary, Rajpal Yadav, Yashpal Sharma and Zakir Hussain

Trailer duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds


Another horror-thriller product from RGV's Factory comes in the form of Vaastu Shastra . The trailer opens with a legal notice that states ‘The producers are not responsible for any consequences of watching this film'. Whether used as a fear-inducing note or a precautionary message (since a person died in India last year while watching RGV's Bhoot in a cinema hall); for lovers of Varma style thrillers, this remark is just as ineffectual as the statutory warning on cigarette packs.

The promo displays the movie title in Hindi script throughout perhaps to add to the rustic feel. Vaastu Shastra – ‘It won't help you' reads the tagline of the film. Ironically the film seems to work against one fallacy – that of Vaastu Shastra, while promoting another superstition – that of the supernatural. That makes us more inquisitive towards the theme and treatment of the film.
The trailer opens on a haunting background score with a car shown moving towards Saswade, a village 30 kms on the outskirts of Pune city. With more one-liners, the trailer makes its point clear. ‘ If Bhoot scared you, this will kill you '. Now if this is not an overstatement, there's something real exciting in store for horror flick fans. However this film directed by RGV Protégé – Sourabh Usha Narang isn't a sequel of Bhoot , though in the same league. Infact it reminds more of RGV's Raat because of it's rural setup.

Exclusive Promo

45 80 150 Download (Real Player)

56 128 300 (Windows Media)


With this film Chakravarthy of Satya fame returns to Varma camp while Sushmita Sen makes her entry too. Chakravarthy plays a writer who lands up at a secluded mansion in Saswade with his doctor wife (Sushmita) and four year old son; to let his creative juices flow and complete his writing assignments. But the mysterious mansion doesn't live up to its name – Shanti Kutir (which was also the film's earlier title). “ Yaha bhoot bhi rehte hai ” says the pokerfaced kiddo in one of his lines who gets the maximum footage in the trailer.

From building basements, feline faces, candlelit rooms, sneaking eyes, following hands to vanishing lights, the promo shows everything habitually related to horror flicks. Infact even some bleached ghostly faces are revealed in the promo clip. The trailer ends on a chilling note with crackling sound and thumping beats showing the façade of a 10-year old girl (seemingly the spirit) in the mandatory white frock associated with ghosts.

The last line goes ‘This September you will die'. Indeed horror flick aficionados will be dying for this film.


Send us your feedback on this feature



http://indiafm.com/feature/04/aug/0208v ... ndex.shtml


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Didn't RGV make a film with the similar setup of a writer in a house in Telugu?

sounds like JOHNY DEP film SECRET WINDOW!

Secret Window had Johnny Depp as a writer who is one day visited by a stranger who says Depp plagiarized one of his stories. This doesn't sound like that, though I expect it to be remade in Hindi someday...

http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullst ... d=13534811

Illayaraja in Verma's next film
Monday, 02 August , 2004, 10:07

Mumbai: Ram Gopal Verma is planning to sign up South Indian music veteran Illayaraja for his next flick Vaastu Shastra.

A.R.Rahman was earlier approached for the music of the film, but when he refused, Verma personally headed down south to woo the southern legend.

Vaastu Shastra is being directed by Saurabh Narang, produced by K. Sera Sera & Ram Gopal Verma and stars Sushmita Sen, Chakravarthy, Piya Rai Chaudhary and Purab Kohli. ANI

PREVIEW looks pretty chilling!! Kinda reminded me of SHINING with JACK NICHOLAS! though!

BACK GROUND sounds like SALIM SULEMAN work and is pretty chilling too!!
What have ILAYA RAJA done?

RGV/ILAYA RAJA is GOOD NEWS!! ILAYA RAJA is INDEED a CLASS in HIM SELF!

SHINING is CLASSIC!! and FOR SURE TO CHILL!! MAN!!

This first promo looked absolutely horrible

Half the scenes seem taken from "Sixth Sense".. the kid being able to see and talk to the ghosts among other things

Didn't anyone else notice this?

The score also seems familiar and uninteresting

Whatever happened to Sandeep Chowta? And why the hell doesn't RGV use him anymore?

After all, Sandeep has given us some of the best Indian film scores ever - "Satya", "Jungle", "Asoka", "Company"..

After Sandeep, RGV's recent film scores just seem plain mediocre

RGV should have just completely quit with horror/supernatural films after "Bhoot", "DMH", "Gayab" - which were all horrible

It seems like RGV always manages to balance his films out - after giving us 2 great films this year - EHT, AT56 - he now releases two crap films - Gayab, and now most likely VS

Fortunately we have "Naach" to look forward to - which after the first promo last week looks very impressive

"Didn't RGV make a film with the similar setup of a writer in a house in Telugu?"

- "Deyyam"

sO, IT IS shining, sIXTH sENSE AND ? sECRET WINDOW???ALL BITS AND PIECES!

Come on guys this is RGV we are talking about. He hasn't done anything original for a couple of years now!!! What makes you think this film will be different.

does he ever go to vacation

Nothing SUNNY!! IT will be for sure inspired from one or all 3!!

"Come on guys this is RGV we are talking about. He hasn't done anything original for a couple of years now!!! "

That is not always a bad thing... it is true that much of his stuff over the last few years has been inspired from his past works or works of others, but nonetheless he has made many of his best films in those last few years

It is BASICALLY!! SHINING!

This is not really related, but has Nicolas Roeg's film Don't Look Now ever been remade?

Anyone know anything about RGV's Telugu production Madhyanapu Hatya? Looks like a horror or thriller movie.