Behind the Scenes of Raaz, the mystery continues..

Let me break the first mystery - "ki ye naya concept kanha se uthaya hai Mukesh bhai sahab ne?" The concept is shamelessly ripped off from the popular TV Series Heroes where the character of Isaac Mendez use to paint future. He was the author of a famous comic series "The 9th Wonder". And the most famous of his paintings which was his last one as well was painted on the floor. That's the mystery behind this ripped off concept. Mr. Bhatt junior might have borrowed his central character from Heroes, the zombie artist Isaac Mendez and have given him the Indian touch.

Watching Heroes might have been an 'Eureka' moment for the director. The concept was good but movie ke liye you need a full script. And there the twists and turns started. And jab koi star nahin mila to apna superstar Hashmi sahi. Still there were doubts in the mind of some people.

Producer - "Sir aab Imraan Hashmi ki picture kaun dekhta hai?, chalo phir bhi naam kya rakhenge Sir?
Director - Well, even I don't know what the movie will be like? Abhi to puri story bhi taiyaar nahin hui hai?
Producer - Kya baat kar raho ho? Story is not ready yet? Why?
Director - I don't know yaar, it's a Raaz.

Now, this was the eureka moment for another Bhatt family member. He shouted from behind Call it "Raaz part 2" only.

Director - But Papa ji! it is not at all related to Raaz.
Papa ji - Who cares, you know, I know, the crew knows it but audience doesn't know it right? Let them discover. And don't worry about the hit or flop thing. At-least we will ask one great movie reviewer to write rave reviews about it. (You all know who the famous reviewer is, who not only review the movie but also predict about it's collection)

The only original thing about this movie is the dialogue " Kutte ki maut aati hai to wo ek kona pakad ke baith jaata hai" To add weight to this dialogue, they even portray the character in a 'kona' of his house. Or may be the script writer wrote the original line about "Geedar ki maut" but "Geedar" might have been too old fashioned for the creative genius of the Bhatt parivar. "Geedar geedar sab kahe, kutta kahe naa koi" So there goes the "Kutte ki maut".

Isn't it the creative genius of the director that the whole movie is centered around one dialogue "Tum Ashudh ho, Tum Sadh Chuke Ho". This mysterious dialogue takes us on the journey of 5 lives interconnected. Anyways, during the entire duration of the film I was feeling like the producer and director wanted to send this message across to 'Ramu the great' that " Tum Ashudh ho, Sadh chuke ho, isliye apna kona pakad ke baith jao". We have given two horror hits so, please refrain from this genre now.

Okay, so now here is the story lineup. A person supposedly managing a 'NGO' is murdered and a Englishmen is involved. His last call was made to a TV reality show host who then sells the tapes to the Gora in exchange for producing his TV series. Then after the success of his TV reality show, he bought a flat from that money and then gifts that flat to his love in life. Kangna holds the flat keys in her hand and that was the moment when ghost decided to haunt her as if "he was waiting ki kab ghar kharide and kab ladki aaye and kab hum shuru ho jayein". If the show would have flopped perhaps the ghost would have never decided to haunt him thinking ki "leave it yaar, bechare ko itne paise bhi naa mile ki ghar ka EMI de sake, sharm aati hai mujhe apni maut pe. Isko haunt kar ke kya milega, let's go and haunt his girl friend instead".

Well, the bhoot might be too scared to take panga with the Junior Sekhar Suman "Kya pata Sekhar bhai sahab agli movie khud produce karein and usmein Jackie will be given a negative role and junior Sahab will do his pitai. So Jackie might have requested or Mohit might have requested him to haunt Kangna only. Waise bhi who will come to watch this son of Shaker to be haunted on screen? So there it goes.

So the bhoot decides to enjoy with the leading lady like waiting for the Kangna to enter the bath tub and then playing around with the lights. "Arre bhai bhuton ka bhi koi iman dharam hota hai yaar, thodi mood lighting ho jaye, phir enjoy karte hain". But, agar ghost is here to enjoy it alone then what is the use of our serial kisser Hashmi? So suddenly he wishes to play around and start throwing stupid visions to Imran. And poor Imran living alone, hooked on beer and might be reading a lot of stupid bollywood magazines suddenly starts painting his imagination on canvas.

All his paintings carries images of Kangna and they both discover together the mystery. Jackie da is too fat for a ghost and reminds that "upar jaa ke bhi khana badhiya milta hai bhai". Imran tries to fit into the role but Kangna's boyfriend is a total waste in the role of the reality show star. In the award function, they simple nominate this only reality show and give the award to him. No Farah Khan, No Sajid Khan, kaisa award hai bhai? No insult, no poor jokes nothing. Kaisa award hai bhai? Sajid ko naa sahi kam se kam Rakhi Sawant ya Mandira Bedi ko to bulate?

Anyways movie is a total waste of time and money. But yeah, you can take your girlfriends to this movie and to put this message across that for any of her unjust demands, it will be she who will be hunted by ghost aka jackie aka Mukesh or forget it yaar, aise bhoot se darta kaun hai? Bhoot lagta hai face painting competition se bhaag kar aaya hai.