Vikram Bhatt’s Haunted was a hollow 3D experience. On Wahiyat Wednesday
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Vikram Bhatt’s 2011 film Haunted came with the tagline, ‘India's first stereoscopic 3D film’. Starring Mahaakshay Chakraborty and Tia Bajpai, here’s why the new visual effects couldn’t save the done-to-death story of the film.
If you like Bollywood and horror - not necessarily a combination of the two - you must know what Vikram Bhatt’s haunted universe looks like. There’s a house with a troubled past, creaking doors, a woman’s shrill screams, chandeliers crashing down, strumming of a wicked tune on the piano, etc. You get the picture, even if you can’t get the storyline. In 2011, Vikram Bhatt packaged all these stereotypes in India’s first stereoscopic film, Haunted. While he gets the credit of bringing new 3D technology to Bollywood, his film fell prey to all the tricks in the horror book. As Haunted completes 10 years of its release on May 6, we tell you why the Mahaakshay Chakraborty and Tia Bajpai-starrer was more of a spoof rather than a good spook.More Related News