: Back in 2002, Vikram Bhatt ripped off to make , a horror movie starring Bipasha Basu and Dino Morea. The film hasn't aged well, but as a teenager, I was spooked by that opening scene and those whispers of 'Sanjana'. Twenty-two years have passed now.
I have grown up, Bollywood cinema had grown up and then went sideways. spawned a franchise that lost its way even with a 'Reboot', but Vikram Bhatt hasn't grown up as a horror filmmaker, as evidenced in his new horror film, – a rip-off of his own . In fact, I could say that the director has regressed when it comes to revelling in his once-hit 'sex and horror' formula.
The movie begins with its protagonist, Neha ( ), drowning in a lake, with her voiceover claiming 'Bloody Ishq' is responsible for her situation. When a film has such an awkward way of making a title drop, you know that's a cue that it's going to be a bad one. Neha gets rescued and admitted to a hospital, but she loses her memory in the accident.
Instead of finding a residence near the hospital for her recovery, her husband Rohan (Vardhaan Puri) takes her to their castle-like home on an island in the middle of the ocean. Memory loss or not, that should have been Neha's cue that she had married the biggest red flag of a husband. Imagine your wife nearly drowned in a lake, and you take her exactly there, trauma be damned.
Neha, while remembering nothing of her past, including her marriage and her husband, experiences spooky occurrences at her home. Even spookier are.