DOBAARA - Why they are so keen to serve westernized horror to the audience desperately waiting for the entertaining Indian horror? (Review by Bobby Sing)

Having seen OCULUS (2013), which is not any exceptional English horror flick, I was really in doubt when I heard that they are going for an official remake of the same as the latest Hindi horror film, making a big mistake. Still I thought that probably they would present it giving an Indian twist, focusing on the mirror as some kind of “Shaapit (Cursed)” object by an evil spirit having a past, adding the much required thrill to the project recalling the Ramsay movies made on the similar pattern.

But sadly the makers do not try anything of that sort in the entire film and strangely come up with an almost scene-to-scene representation of the original which simply remains unappealing and alien to the Indian audience right from its initial confusing sequences making a bad start. Presenting the entire story happening in the west (with no Indian connect whatsoever), DOBAARA begins with extensive use of English in its dialogues (with no Hindi subtitles) and fails to make any kind of connect with the viewers, offering a completely uninteresting and overstretched first half and that too without anything horrifying happening on the screen unexpectedly.