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Starring: Carlucci Weyant, Alma Saraci, Vijayendra
Ghatge, Claudia Siesla
Direction: MR Shahjahan
Vikram (Carlucci Weyant) and
his bride Anna (Alma Saraci) are residing in New York
for the past thirty years. Vikram is estranged and
separated from his father Ranvir (Vijayendra Ghatge). On
Anna’s insistence, Vikram decides to visit his father in
Ooty with his bride Anna and thus they land from New
York to Ooty in South India.
The couple is comfortable in Ooty, but only for a day or
two, since the moment Anna alights from the train that
brings them to the small town, she unwittingly becomes
the medium of events including visions of a murder that
took place in the woods surrounding Vikram's father's
home thirty years ago.
With little love by Vik for his father, it is Anna, who
is an orphan and wants to rebuild the frayed family
relationships. The dad and daughter-in-law bond
instantly hits off. The palatial mansion suddenly perks
up with the new arrivals, even as Anna alongwith her
father-in-law strives to change Vik's mind about staying
longer and taking over his father's business, while Vic
is still sceptical of his father.
Suddenly, Anna 's being troubled with her visions which
see her remembering people and places she's never seen
before. Anna sees the ghost of Linda (Claudia Siesla),
an Austrian woman who died in strange circumstances in
the near-by forest, almost twenty years ago.
It is only until Vik digs up old newspaper clippings
from the internet which talk about the mysterious
disappearance of an Austrian tourist in Ooty. And then
when strange inexplicable events happen to Vir himself,
he apologizes to Anna. Vik resolves to help Anna and
when it is discovered that a murder had indeed taken
place thirty years ago, together they try to solve the
mystery.
The spirit of Linda, raped and murdered thirty years ago
reincarnated as Anna, leads Anna and Vik to the
discovery of the identity of the murderer.
The story is a bit old fashioned, but the film carries
you along with its thriller pacewith its tight editing
and the background score adds to the mesmerizing mood of
the moments as the film progresses. Performances too are
fine and there is visual delight all throughout as
cinematographer Lucio Cremonese craftily excels in
capturing the eerie happenings with twists in the tale
and then there is the visual splendour of splendid hill
station Ooty and its picturesque hills and the lush
green tea plantations.
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Shaami M. Irfan
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The hauntings now become more
frequent and intense, making Anna sick to the point that
her mental health is being questioned. Even though Anna
had never set foot in Ooty, leave alone India before, she
seems very familiar with the surroundings and even some
people. Anna begins to question some people who then see
her as a threat.
The nightmares occur more frequently and with more
specificity. At first Vik accuses Anna of having some
ingrained psychological problems, which hurts Anna deeply.
Cast:
Anna - Alma Saraci
Vik - Carlucci Weyant
Linda - Claudia Ciesla
Ranvir - Vijayendra Ghatge
Khushroo - DJ Perry
Elizabeth - Shanda Renee
Reshma Bai - Smita Hai
Rocky - Sehban Azim
Tikku - Farzil Pardiwalla
Shankar - Raja Kapssey
Shankar Jr - Nirav Soni
Credits & Crew:
Producers - Vivek Singhania, Sanjiv Potnis, Dhiraj Kotkar
Director - M.R. Shahjahan
Writers - Amit Mehra, Vivek Singhania
Director of Photography - Lucio Cremonese
Film Editor - Alexandra Wedenig
Executive Producers - Marcy Levitas Hamilton, Strathford
Hamilton, Ami Artzi
Production Design - Priten Patil
Background Score - Sunna Wehrmeijer
Sound Design - Dara Singh, Ramesh Birajdar
Costumes - Naida Tarakcija
Assistant Directors - Stephen Mathias, Kiran Magham
Make up and Hair Styling - Elizabegh Chare Hart, Melissa
Cunningham
Location Sound Recordist - Julia Thompson
Film Mix Engineer - Anup Dev
Boom Operator - Paul Edmund Williams
Digital Intermediate - Pixion
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