Raaz 3 Review
Rating: 1 Star (One Star)
Emraan Hashmi and Bipasha Basu In Raaz 3 Movie Review (Movie Poster)
Star cast: Bipasha Basu, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta.
What’s Good: The horror in the first half.
What’s Bad: The paper-thin script; the story of convenience; the endless screaming in the second half.
Loo Break: Anytime in the second half.
Watch or Not?: Watch the first half for some scares.
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Raaz 3 is supposed to be a God vs. Bipasha Basu. Or something of that sorts. To be honest, it wasn’t a fair fight to begin with.
The headstrong, spoilt and manipulative Shanaya Shekhar (Bipasha Basu) is the reining actress in Bollywood. But Shanaya is slowly being overshadowed by a new actress Sanjana (Esha Gupta). The final blow comes when Shanaya loses the Best Actress Award to Sanjana. Even Shanaya’s director boyfriend Aditya (Emraan Hashmi) cannot calm her tempest.
The mantra-chanting-holy-thread-tying Shanaya decides that since worshipping God has done her no good, she might as well move over to the dark side. An evil spirit (Manish Choudhary) gives her some magic water that will help possess Sanjana’s spirit. Shanaya cajoles a reluctant Aditya to help her plan to make life a living hell for Sanjana, but not kill her. So Aditya ropes in Sanjana for his next film and keeps giving her doses of the evil water. Sanjana’s nights are now filled with horror as she’s haunted by scary clowns, creepy noises and more. Aditya soon falls for Sanjana but is torn between his love for the haunted actress and his indebtedness to the maverick star.
Watch the movie to find out more secrets tumble out of the closet as Sanjana spirals towards desperation.
Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta (Raaz 3 Movie Stills)
Raaz 3 Review: Script Analysis
The first half of Raaz 3 is not bad. Shagufta Rafique has the scares in the right places and you are really glued to your seat. But you’re never really shown how big a star Shanaya is to feel that she’s lost something that meant the world to her. Sanjana may be an orphan but doesn’t she have even a single friend who can help her instead of running off into Aditya’s arms? The script’s spiral towards stupidity begins in the second half. Spoiler Alert: the evil spirit brutally kills Sanjana’s maid in the first half. But when Shanaya asks him to kill Sanjana later, he gives her some lecture about God being the only one who can take lives. The movie falls flat when you realize that it’s a story of convenience. And how come the evil water doesn’t affect Shanaya at all? The part of Shanaya and Sanjana just sounds like a lame excuse to add some soggy spice to the story.
The dialogues are run of the mill but can go over the top at times by being flowery when not needed.
Raaz 3 Review: Star Performances
She’s evil, she’s manipulative, she’s power-hungry, but Bipasha Basu steals the show left, right and center as Shanaya. Emraan Hashmi has 2-3 staple expressions throughout the movie, but that’s more because of the script’s shortcoming. Esha Gupta is stiff as Sanjana but does much better towards the end (when she almost goes berserk). Manish Choudhary is good as the evil spirit.
Raaz 3 Review: Direction, Editing & Music
You would wish that Vikram Bhatt had even tried to hold the movie together but it just crumbles in the second half. Shanaya blackmailing Aditya and even the sutradhar voiceover were quite unnecessary. And why did they have to show the bottle in Emraan’s pocket in X-ray/strange visual effect? To be subtle, it’s one place you wouldn’t expect Emraan’s hand to be in, even in an Adult movie. Jeet Ganguly and Rashid Khan’s songs are not memorable. Editing is unsatisfactory.
Raaz 3 Review: The Last Word
Raaz 3 has its share of scares but it annoys you in the second half.
Raaz 3 Trailer
Raaz 3 releases on 7th September, 2012
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61 Comments
gud movie
I like you
Emran rocked…and bipasha what an acting….it was my favourite movie……esha gupta also rocked…. I will give 5 stars
Emraan you rocks in this movie. aapka act iss movie mein mind blasting h or bipasha ka act toh oh my god. it’s speech less and my favorite song in this movie khayalon mein bhi and Deewana kar raha h.
guys please watch this movie agar aap darna chahte h toh please yeh movie zarur dekhiye. Emraan you are the best.
Imraan Hashmi is my Favorite Hero
Raaz 3 bold & beutiful…EMRAN thhe rOKS…
Super movie hit acting emraan
Raaz3 movie awosme and horrar movie i like this movie
Bahut sexy rol kiya hai
This movi song very nice
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