CLICK
A ‘fixed’ Bollywood inspiration of a Hollywood ‘Shutter’ which was a remake of a Thai horror in the same name
by Vishal Verma

A PNC production in association with Sangeet Sangeeth Sivan Productions along with Rupali Entertainment and RNA Play Entertainment.

Producers: Sangeeth Sivan, Sanjay Ahluwalia and Vinay Chowksey
Story (for the indianisation, it means): Harish Nair
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Genre: rom hor (romantic horror)
Target Audience: General



Starring

Shreyas Talpade...... Avi
Sadaa...... Sonia
Sneha Ullal...... Aarti Kaushik
Chunky Pandey...... Manu Sharma
Avtar Gill...... Alibhai






Technical Analysis

Asian horrors are being made in Hollywood, ‘Click’ helmed by Sangeeth Sivan is a first Hollywood inspired horror which was a remake of a Thai horror flick. Honestly the inspirations had the potential for our desi junta where a black-haired, pale-faced, wraithlike ghost girl comes crawling back to terrorize the living, baring a couple of shots where the ghost walks upside down and the climax shot, otherwise it doesn't stretch the boundaries of horror cinema and turns into a yawner and sorry guys your wife won,t be scared from this and by the end of the flick she might turn out to be more scarier then before.

For those who get creepy vibes after visiting a theme park ride that scares kids, ‘Click’ can frighten only newcomers to the genre provided they have the patient to wait till post interval to get the eek kick. Sangeet Sivan’s bollywoodie singing dancing remake of a horror drops the ball in delivering what the original had to offer. This is completely odd considering that the Thai version was really creepy. So what the hell went wrong? How about almost EVERYTHING?

Spare Shreyas for his sincere effort and you have everybody to blame for this disaster.
 
On a basic level, the idea behind ‘click’ is pretty cool and it could have worked wonders. Unfortunately Sivan with his writer Harish Nair fractures the flick with its pacing and placing. The film had no traction, and the mystery behind our main characters and their ghosts didn’t feel severe enough to make us give a shiver.
People didn’t begin to die until the audience wants to leave the theater.

Starting with the cinematography. The film was too bright, not menacing and had zero suspense coming from the camera even after T Ramji tried the Ramu way. Then, there was this special FX, which look like something out of a video game. Also, it didn’t help that the girl cast as Sneha doesn,t look scary and Adda is not very hot to make a cameraman go wild. Adding further to the films misery was the score/soundtrack by Sandeep Chowta that was trying too hard and thus took away all suspense and added further to our vows.

In the end click doesn,t clicks and it only manages 1 out of five for the one creepy moment in the entire film and Shreyas performance.



The Story

CLICK is the story of a young photographer (Shreyas Talpade) and his girlfriend (Sadaa). He takes beautiful pictures and yet when they're printed they hide a secret. A secret that is so dark and menacing that he hides it from his girlfriend. A secret from his past that if revealed, threatens to ruin not only his life but that of his friends and loved ones. What happens when the spirit comes back to haunt you?



Promotion

Promotion have been decent, the posters at least gives a feel that there’s something creepy about it.



Business Analysis

It’s a non starter.



Other Credits

Cassettes and CD's on T-Series. Singers: Sunidhi Chauhan, Master Saleem, Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal, Adnan Sami, K K and Vijay Prakash. Lyricist: Shabbir Ahmed. Music Director: Shamir Tandon. Background Music: Sandeep Chowta. Cinematography: T. Ramji. Choreography: Remo D'Souza and Stanley. Action: Raam Shetty. Art: Narendra Rahurikar. Editor: Chirag Jain. Screenplay: Harish Nair. Sound: Parikshit Lalwani. Dialogue: Sameer Arora and Viveck Budakoti. Costume: Falguni Thakore and Shadab Malik. Promos: Hemal Kothari. Media Awareness: Karmic Media. Reviwed at Famous studios, Mumbai on February 18, 2010.

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