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‘Ghost Stories’ Review: Bollywood Aims for Frights

With this Netflix anthology, four directors from Indian cinema draw horror from a country’s lived reality.

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By Bilal Qureshi

“Ghost Stories” is a new Netflix anthology of four horror films made by some of Bollywood’s leading filmmakers. To those unaware that Indian cinema has long surpassed the clichés of MGM-style musicals and Technicolor kitsch, this movie introduces the talents — and the shortcomings — of the current tastemakers of Hindi film.

Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar direct vastly different shorts about contemporary Indian characters pushed to various stages of madness. There are terrifying in-laws, unexplained sounds in the hallway, violent miscarriages, gruesome revelations and one particularly frightening mob of village cannibals. Bollywood’s usual focus on romance and family melodrama hasn’t allowed for a thriving horror genre, but with this anthology, each of these filmmakers tries their hand at local screams and moody creeps. The films are at their most unsettling when they draw their supernatural fears from India’s lived reality — mob violence, intergenerational conflicts and women’s suffering.

In promotional interviews for “Ghost Stories,” all four directors have discussed the artistic freedom of creating content for the global streaming giant, freed from the country’s cutthroat theatrical business model and the censors at the Central Board of Film Certification . For audiences, however, the results are a mixed bag.

Kashyap transforms the trauma of a miscarriage into a stylized psychological thriller in which a jealous nephew uses his malicious supernatural powers to inflict pain on his pregnant aunt. Akhtar, whose masterful film “Gully Boy” was India’s official Oscar submission for international feature this season, tells the story of a young nurse caring for a senile woman who may not be as ill as she seems. With exquisite production values — dramatic apartments and severe color palettes — these two segments showcase the technical prowess of contemporary Indian cinema and the acting talents of a new wave of performers.

The least successful episode comes from Johar, the most commercial of the filmmaking foursome. In line with his existing oeuvre of glossy Bollywood extravaganzas like “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham …” (2001) and “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” (2016), Johar’s ghost story stars a preternaturally attractive married couple and a palatial estate. The couple is haunted by the groom’s deceased grandmother who even interrupts a sex scene with her not-so-subtle entrance. It’s mostly ridiculous and an embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt to infuse psychological horror with Bollywood’s typical mix of melodrama and flashy masala.

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A thoroughly mixed Indian horror anthology which combines the efforts of four Hindi tastemakers.

Released on New Year’s Day,  Ghost Stories  (Netflix) combines the efforts of four of Bollywood’s leading filmmakers into a two-and-a-half-hour horror anthology, one divorced from India’s theatrical model and musical, melodramatic expectations. You’d expect, then, that the opportunity to embrace full creative freedom would have been grasped a bit more enthusiastically than it is here;  Ghost Stories  boasts only one stand-out short — a political analogy wrapped up in rural cannibalism focusing on two young children (Aditya Shetty and Eva Ameet Pardeshi) by Dibakar Banerjee — and several middling entries that don’t suggest a great future for India’s burgeoning scare scene.

Joining Banerjee are Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, and Karan Johar, who all contribute radically different shorts running the entire gamut of universally scary elements and culturally-specific embellishments. Banerjee’s is the best of them, and Johar’s glossy haunting is the worst. The other two are fine, lavishly produced and acted well, but a little thematically thin. How these stories fuse the supernatural and the corporeal doesn’t always work, and when it does it could often stand to work better, but using horror as a means by which to address the nation’s real cultural foibles — as the Oscar-winning short documentary Period. End of Sentence, about the stigma of menstruation in rural India, capably proved there’s a way to go in some respects — is a smart use of a neglected genre.

The presence of  Ghost Stories  on Netflix will help its reach and, hopefully, encourage a freer creative climate, which is yet another upside of the streaming giant’s international influence that its detractors reliably ignore. This isn’t the best example of what India can do in the field, but it’s a start.

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'Ghost Stories' review: This horror anthology doesn’t frighten you as much as it should

The screeching violins and the graphic 2D visuals in the title credits of Ghost Stories set the stage. The visuals in the credits are made of elements from each of the four films. You see the lopped arm and the classroom from Dibakar Banerjee’s Monster, the crow motif from Anurag’s Bird, the wheelchair woman from Zoya Akhtar’s Nurse, the loony husband from Karan Johar’s Granny. What are these stories? How inventive are they, how frightening? These directors have previously worked on two reasonably efficient anthologies—Bombay Talkies and Lust Stories. Ahead of the release, you wondered: Would the ‘ghost’ idea liberate or shackle these filmmakers? Would these stories add a bit more fright to the night, a bit more dread of the unknown?

The first of the four films, Nurse, is by Zoya Akhtar, who likely isn’t the first filmmaker you associate with dark stories. It’s of a nurse, Sameera (Jahnvi Kapoor), forced to spend a night at the residence of a bedridden old woman in need of caretaking. Zoya doesn’t flinch from showing you the unglamorous details of caretaking: the urine bags, the stench, the rinsing, the feeding, the healing waft of an incense stick in a place of rot and stench… I liked how quite a few shots are framed—the symmetry of one shot of Sameera in the bedroom is particularly beautiful. But the creepy old woman isn’t the most novel idea in the horror universe, and for lack of particularly inventive surprises or scares in this story, the story sputters to an end like an incense stick doused in water. The movement of a strange shadow outside the bedroom, inexplicable noises… you don’t get as much a sense of the fear Sameera feels as you should. It’s a fairly interesting idea for a short film, mind you, but I’m not sure it translates into a particularly efficient ghost story.

The second film is Bird, by Anurag Kashyap, a filmmaker who’s not new to the world of darkness, even if the sort he has dealt with in his films aren’t exactly supernatural. The desaturated look of the film is quite striking, and seemingly symbolises the bleakness of the life of its protagonist, Neha (Sobhita Dhulipala). The motif of the bird gets worked into the story quite well too. You see this in the hint of a flashback, the horror writer’s favourite place, the attic, and why even Sobhita’s bulging eyes, soft face, and wiry frame somehow lends itself to the bird imagery. While on it, there’s quite a bit of unsettling imagery, but I will desist from spoiling you the details. I liked Neha’s descent in this short film that attempts to interpret a ghost in a not-so-literal manner. The seeming obscurity could be a dampener for some but I didn’t quite mind that. There’s just a bit too much than the film is able to handle, I think, given its limited duration and its limiting brief. A frightful boy, a frustrated father, the bird-woman parallels… It would be fair to say that much like Neha does literally in this film, Bird bites a bit more than it’s able to chew.

The third film, Monster, by Dibakar Banerjee, is my most favourite of this anthology. Superficially looked at, it’s a zombie story, and works just fine as one—thank god for that. Peel the layers though, and you get themes like oppression, and observations like solidarity among the oppressors, the robbing of the right to expression of the oppressed… While the other films may have subtext too, Monster works both with and without. I liked that it’s a film unflinching in its depiction of gore, like a girl’s intestines being clawed at, a boy chewing into a severed arm. I also totally bought Gulshan Devaiah as the monster, with his eyes communicating menace beautifully. Watch the film and discuss for hours. Who does the monster represent? What do big town and small town stand for? Why does the monster kill those who walk and talk? What does the last phrase, “We’ll become great again”, stand for?

The fourth film, by Karan Johar, is called Granny. It’s also a word that feels overused in conversation in this film. In classic K Jo style, the film is set around a marriage. Here, there’s an arranged marriage looming between English-speaking, wealthy parties living in a mansion. They are the sort of rich whose quick response to discomfort in their house is to say, “Can we purchase another mansion and move in please?” The biggest disappointment about Granny is how it seems to be checking through some really familiar horror tropes without getting fussed over any attempt to reinvent them. A horror house with doors closing and opening, a woman who stands with a torch pointed at her face, a grim maid standing guard for a spirit… It’s all the usual. For a while, I found this idea of an imaginary matriarch quite fascinating. I also quite believed in the plight of Ira (Mrunal Thakur). Ultimately though, it all fizzles out into an underwhelming end that fails to shock or surprise, despite a few peaks of intrigue. Perhaps it’s the stifling effect of the horror genre, perhaps it’s the limited run time, but this is a criticism, I think, that can be largely cast on the anthology as a whole.

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Ghost Stories Review: Misfires And Meaning In Netflix’s Rooted Horror Anthology

Directors: Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar

Cast: Janhvi Kapoor, Vijay Varma, Sobhita Dhulipala, Mrunal Thakur, Avinash Tiwary, Surekha Sikri, Sukant Goel, Aditya Shetty, Gulshan Devaiah

The stories in Netflix’s horror anthology, Ghost Stories , are rooted and the problems seemingly arise from the horrors of life as we know it already — geriatric loneliness, abandonment, majoritarianism, lynching, death of a child and the stigma, and finally the unknowable in an arranged marriage.

Zoya Akhtar manages to infuse the air in her short with the kind of stillness that can suffocate even the young. Her film opens with cliches that say, ‘look, a horror film’ — an overcast day, a lone woman, a dead crow. Once the setting changes, indoor, Akhtar uses every frame, every movement of the camera with precision. Guiding us, telling us what to feel, every step of the way. Surekha Sikri as the senile Mrs Malik is beguiling. Jahnvi Kapoor who comes as a replacement nurse Sameera shows promise. The idea of an old woman who’s half paralysed alone in an apartment, during Mumbai’s terrifying monsoons is horrific enough. The thought of a ‘presence’ in this eerie, smelly home does give you chills, initially. The fact that the young nurse continues to remain in the house even after she sees something questionable the first night, speaks of the kind of things resilient young women will put themselves through to make it in life. There’s much in common between the two women who find themselves alone in this short. The older woman tells the younger one, she would not wait if she had a life… Perhaps this is why Sameera had to be there. To hear these words.  All said and done though, the thrills are far and few and the actual horror of it does not really hit you (long) enough. The slow-mo walking and the camera following gets a bit tiring after a point.

The symbolism of the crow spills over from one film to another in an interesting manner in Ghost Stories . Sobhita Dhulipala’s deadpan face in Anurag Kashyap’s short, while initially serving the intrigue, later on, makes her seem too distant to access. In fact, you feel absolutely no connection to any of the characters in the film. That’s also because of how disorienting the script is. You don’t know which of them is supposed to horrify the others. And so it becomes exhausting. A young mother who loses a child bears the guilt of childhood, when she was prone to accidentally dropping birds’ eggs. As an adult feeds birds in her attic, dreams of losing the baby in her womb (and there are some particularly disturbing scenes in the bathroom), has a young nephew with an almost oedipal obsession, who wants her to love him as much even after she has her baby… and he can draw and inflict pain on her… In the end though the Black Swan-esque film fails in capturing the journey of the mother who’s consumed by the idea that she’s being… or will be punished.

In Dibakar Banerjee’s film, it’s a man eat man world (and there’s a scarecrow). There’s a big town and a small town. And a government official who comes to find out just why the school in the small town isn’t good. The unnamed Visitor undergoes the horrors of the small town’s inhabitants (two kids) at the hands of the big town’s people. Through stray conversations (fights between the kids), he pieces together the kind of animosity the people of big town harbour towards the small. It’s a very effective short, in that there is the immediate physical danger that the main characters must protect themselves from, as well as the implied danger of majoritarianism and mob lynching… In one scene, the Visitor falls into a pit and everyone just looks at him. And then he folds both his hands and pleads, at which point the animal-like head of the big town pounces on him… The casting is superb and the setting eerily real. It’s a superb subversion of the zombie horror genre, without the cinematic desi verve.

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Karan Johar’s final short is more a wink at the horror genre, and less a serious attempt. There’s a Sabyasachi-like wedding ad, hiding as an arranged marriage scene in there as well. Rich people meet to, maybe, have an arranged marriage; boy seems to be still talking to his dead grandmother; girl goes ahead and marries him despite the red flag and then like a detective walks around the uber-rich house (with superb wallpapers by the way), trying to ‘find’ the ghost. There’s a ‘creepy’ cook, the crow-shaped head of a walking stick, and a sleepwalking mother-in-law… The only upside though is, everyone looks polished and buff all the time, and the swearing from victim and ghost alike.

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According to Ghost Stories on Netflix, “your fears will find you.” It’s an encouraging promise. After all, that’s why we watch horror. Scary stuff is our thing. And the great thing about horror is that there are subcategories within the genre. You can describe yourself as a fan of monsters, slashers, classics, ghost stories, psychological thrillers, and so many more you’re probably offended I didn’t list it. The new anthology collection on Netflix, Ghost Stories , tries to be all those things, and stumbles; causing it to be none of those things for half of the four stories. Two of the stories are so magnificent, they should be watched over and over. They’re masterpieces of cinema that raise the bar so high the other two can’t possibly compete. All four are designed and filmed beautifully.

The first story, “Nurse,” directed by Zoya Akhtar, warms you up for high expectations because it’s really good. It has everything that’s necessary for a short film to fill you in on what you’re watching. The characters are developed quickly enough for you to understand who they are, but they are left with a few surprises that make “Nurse” a quality ghost story. My favorite Easter egg is in the naming of the protagonist’s lover. He’s a married man who’s having an affair with her, and his name is Guddu. He’s clearly never going to leave his family. He’s stringing her along, and he’s never going to actually be there. Like, Waiting For Godot . There’s more to the waiting theme. All the characters are waiting for something, the best of which turned this one into a classic.

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There were immediate high expectations with the second story, directed by Anurag Kashyap. It felt like a different kind of story. The body of work began to spread its wings. In “Bird,” we’re looking for the same kind of creepy, but it gets a little Birdman with Michael Keaton . Could that be a mistake? I wasn’t sure if this one was gorgeous or gaudy, though. When visions of The Dark Crystal danced through my mind watching this one, I couldn’t help but think of puppets and Muppets, and then Sesame Street . It was a pretty decent story I’d love to read, but something went wrong in the execution. If I watch any of these again, I may try watching “Bird” to see if it deserved a second look. It’s one of those. I won’t call it bad, and I may realize it’s the gem of the group.

By the third story, directed by Dibakar Banerjee, expectations have quavered. We’re rooting for it. The last one has to be amazing, but the penultimate should be the armature to the whole body. Not so here. And just like “Bird,”, “Monster” makes me wonder if “Nurse” is an anomaly among them. Unless I missed something, neither “Bird” or “Monster” are actual ghost stories. “Monster” is a straight up “humans turned monster thru infection” movie, but there’s more: It’s actually humorous. When you’re laughing during a ghost story, you’re expecting to be taken by surprise by some horrifying reveal. The Island of Dr. Moreau makeup was something that’s easily appreciated under the right circumstances, but it wasn’t convincing enough in dreary daylight. The protagonist plays his role like Don Knotts. That is not an insult by any means. It’s just that slapstick has never been invited to the ghost story party before.

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Your reward for checking out Ghost Stories has finally arrived. “Granny” (directed by Karan Johar) is telling ghost stories at its finest. If you’ve ever read a collection of strange tales or ghost stories, this is the one you always go back to when you only have time for one good hair-raising tale. There is just enough telegraphing to make you feel like, “yeah, I thought that might be where it was going, but man, did they ever do it right?” Yes. “Granny” was done right. Get to know a young couple in an arranged marriage, and find out all the secrets that should have come out in courtship. Comeuppance is always the winner when you tangle with the other side.

As a whole, I was leaning on disappointed until I went over the stories in my head. Ghost Stories will probably be on my list of things to watch when the leaves start turning red, but I’d likely only watch them one at a time, as time permits. Netflix’s Ghost Stories is worth a look-see if you want to enrich your diet of horror. If it was cake, it’s the one you finish, but wonder if it was worth the calories after every bite.

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Ghost Stories Movie Review: An Insipid Anthology Lifted Solely By Dibakar Banerjee’s Bold Voice

Directors: Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar Cast: Jahnvi Kapoor, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sukant Goel, Gulshan Devaiah, Avinash Tiwary, Mrunal Thakur

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Ghost Stories , the third installment of the four-director anthology after Bombay Talkies (2013) and Lust Stories (2018) , is arguably the least impressive 'whole' of them all. One might argue that the theme (horror) evokes a distinct language of storytelling – a vivid, visible genre that requires a specific skill-set and slant of sensibilities – and is therefore harder to crack in comparison to thematic sub-genres like cinema ( Bombay Talkies ) and sex ( Lust Stories ). One might also argue that only one of the four directors has shown the slightest inclination towards genre filmmaking in the past: Even Anurag Kashyap's "normal" filmography ( Paanch, Black Friday, Gulaal, Ugly, No Smoking, Raman Raghav 2.0 ) is ripe with undercurrents of cultural, psychological and political horror.

Which is why – given the palpable ghosts in the air of today's India – it's strange to see him experiment with a tone of geeky socio-visual horror (pregnant woman, creepy nephew, dolls) instead. Sobhita Dhulipala uninhibitedly occupies a physically sinister role, some of the desaturated imagery is striking and almost fable-like in its mental portraiture, but you can sense the overexcitement of a creator left alone in a room with his shiny new toys. Horror is the one genre in which indulgence is already deep-rooted – an extra dose only makes it more explicit and overbearing, giving the impression of an artist trying too hard to be artful.  

On the other hand, it's disappointing to see Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar interpret the title, Ghost Stories , in the most literal way possible – through ghosts , old ladies, haunted houses and terrified female protagonists. Johar's tale of a newly-wed girl (Mrunal Thakur) whose wealthy husband (Avinash Tiwary) speaks to his dead grandmother is particularly jarring and juvenile, reminiscent of the Vikram Bhatt brand of Bollywood horror most of us have (not) grown up on. Akhtar's narrative – of a young house-nurse caring for a mysterious old woman (Surekha Sikri) during a Mumbai deluge – lacks the kind of naked ambition that we've come to expect from her out-of-comfort-zone outings. This is unoriginal, and serves as little other than a platform for Janhvi Kapoor to shed her star-kid rawness. That's not to say atmospheric horror and jump scares are outdated. They can be silly-smart at times. But I believe that spookfests cannot simply afford to be sensory spookfests anymore, especially in this age of heightened human conflict and advanced digital effects.

Context is the clincher. One doesn't even need to search so hard anymore: Just look around, fear is everywhere. Something like Ashwin Saravanan's Game Over (2019) , a feminist slasher flick that doubles up as a tragic advertisment of our times, would fit right in. For instance, Dibakar Banerjee's short – which in my opinion is the best of the twelve segments so far – does a wicked Jordan Peele ( Get Out, Us ) in terms of meta commentary. It wears the guise and drastic mood of a gory zombie movie to express the modern machinery of this government's Hindutva model. It captures the history of everyman fear through the genre's most audacious form. The messaging isn't in your face either; it takes its time to emerge out of the cleverly designed apocalyptic mask. It begins with an education officer (Sukant Goel) walking into a deserted rural district ("The rickshaw dropped me 4 kilometres away," he complains on his phone, before the reception disappears) to address the underperformance of its schools. There is nobody he can call anymore. A communications blackout. Two traumatized kids – one from "bigtown" and another from "smalltown" – take him into their hideout and explain the situation: Flesh-eating zombies from one district are preying on humans of the other. "They don't eat those who eat like them," he is told, a piece of information that sets the stage for a Shaun of the dead -level satire of reluctant cannibalism down the line.

For those willing to look, there are thinly veiled allegories of Kashmir and its internet lockdown, lynching, religious fundamentalism, rabble-rousing, cow/beef politics and recession (survivors must eat raw onions to avoid being eaten by the zombies) weaved into the texture of this seemingly straightforward survival thriller. For those willing to look closer, Gulshan Devaiah is a big part of this film – and he is unrecognizable until the final moments. His is a difficult performance, and an eye-catching one that cannot be analyzed without exposing the core of the story. Banerjee makes a strong statement by using our perception of primal horror as a narrative device. The devil is in his details. And it's this sort of daring, provocative voice that reiterates the entire point of a diverse anthology. Unlike the other segments of Ghost Stories , it injects a largely misused genre with a rare sense of intellectual awareness that goes beyond the trends and norms of contemporary storytelling. It's not a one-off. Across the three anthologies, Banerjee's shorts have been consistently humane and intriguing. His characters, too, have been the most effective – we remember them, their settings and the smell of their conflicts far more than the others.

Maybe it's no surprise that a specialist director whose last feature-length release was over four years ago ( Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! ) appears to be the only one keen to be heard. The investment feels fiercer; there's nothing quick and easy about the films. The others, however, seem to be alternatively out of breath and breadth. Perhaps it's time to reinvent the line-up going forward. A new-old suspect can't hurt. Imagine someone like Sriram Raghavan in this Bollywood quartet. Imagine Vishal Bhardwaj. Imagine any filmmaker who doesn't need to imagine too loudly in order to own a theme.

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Ghost Stories movie review: Janhvi Kapoor and Sobhita Dhulipala impress, Netflix’s lacklustre Lust Stories follow-up doesn’t

Ghost stories movie review: directors anurag kashyap, zoya akhtar, dibarkar banerjee and karan johar reunite for netflix’s unnerving anthology follow-up to the acclaimed lust stories..

Ghost Stories Directors - Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibarkar Banerjee, Karan Johar Cast - Janhvi Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, Sobhita Dhulipala, Gulshan Devaiah, Surekha Sikri, Vijay Varma

Like your neighbourhood aunty, Hindi cinema doesn’t do horror. So it’s rather interesting to see four filmmakers who represent the broad spectrum of Hindi moviemaking, come together to experiment with a genre that the industry believes is best avoided.

But unlike 2018’s Lust Stories , and indeed, the filmmakers’ first anthology film together, 2013’s Bombay Talkies, Netflix’s Ghost Stories is an uneven and ultimately impotent affair. There are occasional moments of magic, especially in a couple of segments, but they’re inconsistent. It should be noted that none of the four filmmakers — Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar — has made a horror movie before. God knows Johar has scared audiences, but this time, he’s expected to.

Ghost Stories begins rather promisingly, though, with Akhtar’s technically impeccable short. Janhvi Kapoor plays Sameera, a nurse who’s assigned to look after a senile old woman, played by Surekha Sikri. For a filmmaker who’s expressed her apathy for horror, Akhtar does a splendid job of appropriating some of the genre’s most recognisable tropes — visually and tonally. Think of her film as an elaborate Halloween costume; you can’t deny the effort and skill that must have gone into making it, but in the end, it can’t help but feel slightly superficial.

The film is wonderful to look at — the creaky old Mumbai apartment, set against the backdrop of incessant rains, is intricately designed — and Akhtar does an excellent job of laying out the geography of the place. So when a noise wakes Sameera up in the middle of the night, we’re subconsciously aware of where it might have come from. Akhtar puts us in her protagonist’s shoes, allowing us to feel what she’s feeling, successfully sustaining dread in this age of jump-scare filmmaking .

It’s a fun tweak on that old babysitter-in-peril premise, but Sameera most certainly isn’t a vapid, virginal victim. Janhvi instils in her an instant warmth, and even though her accent might not be as consistent as her performance, there’s an effortless charm about her. Surekha Sikri, meanwhile, knows exactly the sort of film she’s in, effectively alternating between her character’s many moods with precision and restraint. But I struggled to understand the larger point Akhtar was trying to make, or if there even was any. This is unfortunate, especially if you remember the muffled voices she handed a megaphone to in Gully Boy, and also in her Lust Stories short.

Like the first segment, the second, directed by Anurag Kashyap, is also a twist on familiar horror movie tropes. Featuring yet another largely solitary performance at its centre, Kashyap’s short is a wildly ambitious mashup of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Richard Donner’s The Omen, with a bit of Cronenbergian body horror thrown in for good measure. Unlike Akhtar’s film, this one has anxieties to address — about motherhood and mania, loss and loneliness.

As always, Sobhita Dhulipala proves that she can be an astonishingly reliable actor, regardless of what she’s given to work with. She’s able to add more dimensions to her character in 30-odd minutes here than she was in seven episodes of the shoddy Bard of Blood . But once again, the film is more impressive technically — the deathly desaturated colour palette, the sneaky visual foreshadowing, the impressive practical effects — than on a narrative level. Kashyap has never been one to pull punches, but he seems to lack the courage of his convictions here, especially towards the end, when he chooses to spell out certain details that he’d already effectively communicated through his filmmaking.

Banerjee, in his segment, also seems to be conflicted. Should he make the most of the creative freedom that has been given to him, or should he keep one foot in the realm of the mainstream and not risk alienating the majority of the audience that is likely to watch his film? In the end, he gets spliced, clearly struggling with the exposition that is necessary to build the fictional fantasy world that he has created, and to deliver the thrills that are expected of him.

Surprisingly, Banerjee is the only one who decided to go political with his short. In all honesty, I was expecting at least two others to also use the creative liberties at their disposal, and the opportunities that genre filmmaking affords writers, to make some sort of statement about the world. Banerjee’s film is sort of like a Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, combined with the post-apocalyptic aesthetic of a modern zombie movie and the absurdity of a propaganda pamphlet. It would be unfair to reveal more details about the film, especially because this segment, for good reason, has the potential to be the most divisive. But there are interesting ideas in there, about our place in the world, and how precarious it really is.

In a shocking turn of events, I suspect that Johar’s short might be the most palatable of the lot, especially to audiences who are, rightly so, caught unawares by the sheer abstractness of some of the previous segments. This one, despite featuring the thinnest characters and absolutely no perspective to speak of, is a more traditional haunted house story. To be clear, Johar isn’t communicating his own personal fears through his film, but appears to have based his ideas on what someone else has told him horror should be. And so there are scenes in which poor Mrunal Thakur, skimpily dressed, is sent on midnight walks around a house she should have checked out of ages ago. There is also a sleep-walking mother-in-law and a creepy Catholic maid. But whatever momentum Johar is inadvertently able to build is tossed out of a Spanish window when he cuts to Kusha Kapila, as our heroine’s BFF, popping in to make a smutty joke or two.

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The result is a tonally inconsistent but visually refined film that throws in random Christian symbolism with desi scare tactics, and ends up resembling one of those Ekta Kapoor serials about naagins and whatnot. It’s a mess, but it’s also the only segment that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Perhaps reshuffling the lineup might have helped, but this is assuming you watch the entire thing in one sitting. Ideally, Ghost Stories, for its own sake, must not be seen as a whole. It’s fearless, but frustrating; ambitious, but not ambitious enough.

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Netflix Ghost Stories Review (2.5/5): Janhvi Kapoor's Film Is More Cringy Than Creepy

Netflix's horror anthology, starring janhvi kapoor, mrunal thakur and shobita dhulipala fails to keep it fresh. ghost stories instead takes on a groggy approach to the horror genre..

Available On: Netflix Language: Hindi Duration: 144 minutes

Story: The film presents four segments, each consists of a horrifying tale directed by Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar. All stories are set in different time and places without a connection to each other. While some express the trauma of past experiences, others are a take on something completely new.

Review: Ghost Stories is said to express each directors viewpoint on life, but as an extremely literal and visual film, the short stories have a hard time expressing anything more than the characters. Four stories of the anthology are based in a different time and places, while Anurag Kashyap's is set in a bit older times, rest three are set in around 2019 and talk about incidents that could happen to anyone at any time. It is the one thing that adds to the negligible level of scary that the film is.

Starting with Janhvi Kapoor's story directed by Zoya Akhtar, we are introduced to a nurse who is dating a married man but is finding it hard to quit the toxic relationship. She meets her new patient suffering from numerous disease, living alone in a creepy house. Janhvi comes off as a more experienced actress, with almost no information on Samira and little material to work with, she still makes you root for her. While it is not scary, the short story does have a beautiful message.

Another directed by Anurag Kashyap is the story about a lady trying to conceive after suffering from a miscarriage. More then horror this one takes a turn towards a psychological thriller. This short story is the only one that made me want to look away, but not because it was scary. More so because it was hard to watch. Vulnerable characters having to deal with loss is not easy and Anurag takes full advantage of it in this film.

Dibakar Banerjee's directorial is the most bizarre one, in a good way. While the story is not scary again, it raises many questions about perspective and society. We meet a zombie-like vampire species that feeds on each other humans based on their hatred. But it takes a funny tone since it comes off as a knock off, of 'how to survive a zombie apocalypse' movie.

Karan Johar's segment is the most lavish, if half of its budget was used on other segments it would have been easier to accept the Dibakar Banerjee's story. In this one, we meet Mrunal Thakur as Ira, who is marrying into a family where everyone talks about the dead granny as if she is alive. The story takes a turn when she refuses to accept it and starts making changes. All the segments have a rudimentary script. Some feel rushed or have missed the essence of the story. There aren't any moments when you will feel sacred or feel the urgency for survival.

Overall the runtime of 144 minutes feels even longer due to the slow stories and relaxed presence of the ghosts, which weren't actually there, except in the last story. But that wasn't scary either. Cartoon Network's Courage The Cowardly Dog, has felt scarier than this.

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Ghost Stories: Release Date, Trailer, Songs, Cast

• Release Date 1 January 2020
• Language Hindi
• Genre Horror, Thriller
• Duration 2h 24min
• Cast Sobhita Dhulipala, Mrunal Thakur, Avinash Tiwary, Janhvi Kapoor, Surekha Sikri, Raghuvir Yadav, Gulshan Devaiah, Anish Bamne, Pavail Gulati
• Director Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap
• Writer Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Isha Luthra, Avinash Sampath
• Cinematography Sylvester Fonseca, Tanay Satam, Mitesh Mirchandani, Ranjan Palit
• Music Dibakar Banerjee, Sid Shirodkar, Ketan Sodha, Benedict Taylor
• Producer Ronnie Screwvala, Ashi Dua
• Production Netflix
• Certificate 16+

About Ghost Stories Movie (2020)

Four renowned directors, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar, join hands for this quartet of thrillers.

In the first flick, Sameera (Janhvi Kapoor), a young nurse, is assigned the duty to take care of an ailing bedridden elderly lady, Mrs. Malik (Surekha Sikri), who has dementia in a desolate house.

The second tale has a paranoid, pregnant woman Neha (Sobhita Dhulipala) who affectionately babysits her late sister's kid, Ansh (Zachary Braz), in the absence of his father. Neha soon begins to lose sight of what is real and what is her nightmare.

In the third one, a middle-class man (Sukant Goel) gets relocated to a newly-posted location in a bizarre small town, Bees-ghara. He sees that the entire Bees-ghara town is cannibalised by the big town 'Sau-Ghara', where the village inhabitants get eaten by the cannibals of Sau-ghara.

And in the fourth and final story, Ira (Mrunal Thakur) ties the knot with the handsome and wealthy Dhruv (Avinash Tiwary) who blathers about his dead granny who visits him every night to bid him good night.

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In the last decade, Netflix went from being a nobody to one of the biggest players in Hollywood. That strength is visible from the money it's now spending on movies — over $500 million (about Rs. 3,570 crores) put together on Martin Scorsese, Michael Bay, and Dwayne Johnson's ventures — and how it's rivalling other studios at awards. It has the most nominations at the 2020 Golden Globes, to take place this Sunday. But here in India, Netflix simply isn't at a stage where it can get big-time Bollywood directors to make feature-length films for its platform. What it can offer them though is an outflow of their creative juices, since there are no box office concerns to begin with.

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