Nazar

It took Sony Razdan all of three months to prepare for Nazar - and it shows. The film encompasses a range of emotions including pained grimaces, wooden looks and taxed IQs. After directing a short film on child labor called Girvhi, Sony decided to try her hand at other, smaller labors, like making a half-baked film which tethers on the border of being a horror or a thriller, and falls in neither category.

At best, Nazar is an unhinged and hasty remake of Mahesh Manjrekar's Rakht, which had some solid performances by Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu to add concrete to the realm of ES....