EK THI DAAYAN :REVIEW

                         EK THI DAAYAN: REVIEW

Ek Thi Daayan is a Bollywood horror film directed by Kannan Iyer. The film features Emraan Hashmi,Konkona Sen Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Kalki Koechlin. The film is co-produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Vishal Bhardwaj andRekha Bhardwaj.

A good scary story can give you a thrill and send chills down your spine. The good news is that Ek Thi Daayan manages that. The bad news is that the film only manages that in the first half

The hero in this film, played by Emraan Hashmi, is called Bobo. He’s a magician. Bobo starts to suffer from hallucinations. He undergoes hypnosis and discovers that in his childhood, he was terrorised by a woman named Diana, played by Konkona Sen Sharma, who may or may not have been a Daayan. The building lift becomes a passage to hell. Young Bobo, played by Vishesh Tiwari, is absolutely brilliant. There are moments here that made me jump. Konkona is deliciously wicked and at one point, I got so spooked that I closed my eyes.

And then, movie's second half was somewhat disappiointing. Kalki Koechlin, playing Lisa Dutt, makes an entry. She’s an interesting actor but the film doesn’t know what to do with her. By the climax, the plot doesn’t stay true even to its own logic. It’s cheesy and simply too silly to scare. Which is a real disappointment because until then, I was having a lot of fun?

However, I would love to see Diana get her own film and I’m very curious about what Kannan will do next.