Sssshhh Review

Sssshhh... Don't tell anyone that the film is a take on Scream. Why not? Because they could still manage to generate interest in that film after the first ten minutes, i.e. after Drew Barrymore is killed.

Anyway, the film is a murder mystery and you have to give the makers credit for keeping the identity of the killer under wraps till the very end - mostly because you kind of stop thinking midway through it. And, for once, it is not entirely Dino Morea's doing. So, does that mean he has become a better actor? Dunno, but there were also Karan Nath and Tanisha...

Like Scream, this film also has a multitude of characters - all friends of Mahek (Tanisha), who is still not able to come to terms with the murder of her older sister Malini (Maheep). The killer is that same masked guy we were first introduced to in Scream. Six months later, Mahek receives a call where she is told that she is next. Why? Because she was also wearing white like her sister was when she was killed.

So when her bachpan ka dost, Rocky (Dino Morea), throws a party, we all know that Mahek is going to come dressed in another white dress. She does not disappoint and neither does our mask. But if she died now where would the director get stuff from for the next two hours? She is rescued, but becomes a nervous wreck. To cheer her up, Rocky suggests they take a holiday to Bangkok. Suraj (Karan Nath), the group's newest member and Mahek's to be flame, tags along.

Their group of seven members gets thrown out of their hotel. So, they choose to make a deserted island their hangout for the days left of their vacation. Then people start dropping dead like cherries from trees. Two member of the Indian police force come to their rescue. Wow - the hands of the law are really long! After a few clichéd sequences, the killer is revealed, but the reason for the spree is not even remotely laughable.

The actors... well, you can't really blame them. They have done the best they could - another reason why I believe that Dino Morea is in the wrong profession. Karan Nath started college in Yeh Dil Aashiqaana, and in this movie, too, could not succeed in graduating. The music by Anu Mallik is mediocre, to put it politely.

In all fairness, the film does have a few scenes that take you off guard - none better than those in which Tanisha is trying to emote. She shows us that great lineage (she is Tanuja's daughter, BTW) is not all it takes to make the grade.

Just one of those films that you would watch if you had about three hours to kill.