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Directed By: Shyam Ramsay & Tulsi Ramsay

Top 8 Cast: Jasmin Dhunna, Satish Shah, Gulshan Grover, Hemant Birje, Rajesh Vivek, Kulbhashan Kharbanda, Sahila Chadha, Kama Roy

Plot: When monster-hunting brothers, Mahindra and Sameer Pratap, slay the local blood-sucking-witch, Nikita, they don’t contend with evil warlock, Baba, who uses black magick to allow Nikita’s ghost to demonically possess the fair Jasmin.

Response: Monster gals sing their hearts out in the surf. Getting son-zoned quick by the sawmill magnate. The joke is the fat guy has IBS, is ineffectual and gay. Will the sisterhood of witchcraft win out? Monsters growl in smokey lumber mills after sawing dudes in half. Each labored creature breath and rattle an appreciation for the spilt blood.

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Rapid Thoughts: This is the monster mash you’ve been waiting for. Four Bollywood numbers but only two songs (one is reprised three times). A cult classic in India and now the world. Partially an Exorcist rip with some vampire stuff thrown in. Super elegant Mario Bava-esque lighting, as much skin and violence as 1980’s India could get away with, and some of that folkloric, anything-goes, gonzo spirit of a The Boxer’s Omen or Mystics in Bali. The lowbrow humor can be cringey, homo-phobic and ableist, but this is party film through-and-through.

Second Opinions:

“If you dig lurid lighting, dramatic eye-region zooms, groovy witch-cults, horned deities and can tolerate attempts at off-color broad humor, song/dance numbers that seem redolent both of the early 60's and the 1980's, you will more than likely enjoy this movie. I certainly did.” - nathaxane [goodbye <3] on Letterboxed

“..the director brothers…seem not to have been moved to look for anything new in this small area they inhabit. They keep using the same formulae of haunted stories, the same tricks for creating fear (a black cat, a beautiful girl on the road asking for a lift, the car losing control). They are not successful with creating fear through these fantastic means, so they end up using crude masks as well and end up failing in their attempt.” - Ashok Rane, Mumbai Sakal

“Their (the Ramsays) films were never blockbusters but they were trendsetters for sure.” -Abhimanyu Mathur, Hindustan Times

“This film is incredible.
I couldn't even begin to guess what would happen next when I was watching it and I loved that.
The comedy was on point, the action was awesome, the dance sequences are always a weird highlight of Bollywood films.
It's some of the most fun I've had watching a film in a while.” - Clearwing64 on Letterboxed

“This has to be my favorite Ramsay monster yet every time she transformed I was like "yaassss queen go get that d" plus it has a bunch of random kitty cat attacks which is my most favoritest thing ever…!” Hobbit Reefer Madness on Letterboxed