So, how many more times exactly you want to see a possessed body [quite
inviting in this case] tied in wooden chair-hanged in air, making screechy
deafening sounds and one good Samaritan soul helping the needy with his/her own
set of sacred chants tries to persuade the evil with, “Isse chhod do! Tum chali
jao” (Leave her alone! Go away!!)? That too when we already have impactful
exorcism scenes in numerous horror classics! With such plenty of ripped-off references
from the past formulaic horror flicks; defined deliciously as ‘horrex’, RAGINI
MMS 2 fails big time to chill your bones and ends up tickling your funny bones
unintentionally with stupidity scattered allover and boredom that comes from
the lack of originality in plot.
Taking clues from its previous part, RAGINI MMS 2 takes you back at the
same haunted house where Uday [the Rajkumar Rao of now] has lost his life while
implementing his sleazy idea to shoot his personal moments with his girlfriend
Ragini [Kainaz]. Ragini is now in a mental asylum and an irritatingly
over-excited filmmaker [Parvin Dabas hams like anything] wants to make a film
on the same. In his explanation, this would be a well-balanced mishmash of
horror and sex that will leave you in your best of confusion to either go to
your mother in holy-scare or to your girlfriend to satisfy your urge for dirty
pleasures. This is probably the most honest announcement for all the viewers as
what to expect from it. Get confused and return unfulfilled with neither being
a solid punch in the name of entertainment!
Film also has been written, as to rationalize and defend its main lead
Sunny Leone’s past line of work and her way in to Bollywood. She interestingly plays
herself in the film. And where everyone else in the cast & crew make
comments on her real life (In one scene, the director of the film in the film
reacts on her instinct to have some research before playing the character, “Research?
Yeh Porno se Rituporno kabse bann gayi?”), she takes on everyone with an
enactment of a fake-orgasm scene to make her point of it being all a part of
one’s profession. For the rest, either she’s roaming around in her skimpy
pieces of silken lingerie or being extremely physical with most (She was even
made to kiss Sandhya Mridul for literally no reason to have enough
justification). At best, it is a 2-hour long Sunny Leone showreel!
Talking about performances in such mediocre film would be wasting one’s
time and effort but if anyone could really manage to pull it till the status of
‘likeability’, it is Sandhya Mridul. Cast as an animated starlet who adds an
extra ‘s’ in each word she bound to speak, Mridul responsibly slips into the
character and provides a couple of genuine laughs with her contagious flare
of immense energy. Sunny looks astoundingly hot and does precisely what most
would love to see her doing!
Overall, it is a bad
follow-up to an impressively performed & directed first part which was
again a rip-off from ‘THE BLAIR WITCH REPORT’ and ‘PARANORMAL ACTIVITY’. This
one pays its tribute to ‘EXORCIST’ & ‘THE SHINING’ and many others in the
most forgettable manner. Only for people with weak hearts and even weaker sense
of entertainment! [2/5]
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