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In a nutshell, the movie was ultra disappointing and should not disturb the box office for a long while. Read the complete review here:
Horror movies are making sort of a comeback, with many producers putting up their monies for this concept. This week, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Sonal Chauhan make an appearance with 3G, a psycho horror movie that takes a new, modern take on the old school possess and haunt storyline.
Sam and Sheena is an urban couple who decide to have a small getaway in picturesque Fiji. Just as Sam reaches Fiji, he loses his phone, and he buys a second hand mobile from a thrift shop. This is where his problems begin. The phone begins acting up, with him getting phone calls – video phone calls – showing a woman being killed – in the middle of the night. Sam and Sheena try to decipher the mystery behind these phone calls and the woman, but instead their relationship undergoes a rough-and-tumble because of the dark secrets that they have kept from each other. Whether this couple can survive that one phone call forms the rest of the movie.
Like most movies, 3G has a very interesting concept. People who have followed Bollywood horror movies right from the seventies might even term it revolutionary and path breaking. The concept is a fresh breath from the countless havelis and randy Thakurs that we were given in the name of horror in the seventies, eighties, nineties, and even in the early 2000s. Where the movie fails is the screenplay, and the fleshing out of the script. The screenplay meanders about and by the time the interval hits you, you no longer bother about who is haunting whom and who is dying. Yes, spoiler alert, there are more than two ghosts in the movie.
There are so many things happening in 3G that the average viewer fails to keep afoot. The screenplay is a confusing web that comprises of an escort service, an escort, a madam, a gothic, ancient tattoo, a website that deals with soft ****, a sensitive researcher, and gobbledegook about technology being used to contact dead people. Oh, and add in a Priest who has a nightlife he wouldn’t be proud of.
3G is one of those movies that would have looked so good on paper that the producers just couldn’t rest until the movie was made. The main culprit is the screenplay and the direction. For the twisted, complicated concepts that 3G is supposed to tackle, one would need a crackling screenplay and direction that is simply out of this world. And the misconception that a character becomes all twisted and dark if you take their shots from forehead down is creeping slowly into Bollywood, blaming Nolan for that would be equivalent to blaming milk for milkshake.
In the acting department, Neil Nitin Mukesh hams it up when it comes to the haunting scenes, but is decent during the other parts of his performance. To be fair, he starts off pretty believable, but the moment he crosses that sequence where he wears the leather jacket, he suddenly begins doing his best impression of The Joker. Out of it all, there is just one sequence that would kind of stands off, but if we say more about it, it will be kind of a overkill.Sonal Chauhan has the necessary oomph and she does make those swimsuit sequences interesting. She has a decent chunk of a role too, and is passable as a woman whose boyfriend is slowly being possessed by a power that she cannot understand.
On the technical front, the movie is shot beautifully, and there is nary a moment where they let you forget that you are in picturesque Fiji. The song sequences shot between Neil and Sonal are quite artistic actually, and might be a lesson in framing and image capturing. The songs themselves are not too bad. They are actually quite hummable.
In a nutshell, 3G loses the plot post the interval. It is the movie that begins with a note about how technology is connected to the supernatural, and ends with a note about how technology plays a role in breaking relationships.
