Movie Review: Rokkk

The moment you start rubbing two brain cells together, you might find that 'Rokkk' could be the last step of Tanushree Dutta's career. Unless you don't have air conditioning, live above a Chinese restaurant, and are suffering from a 107-degree fever, I can't think of a single reason to sit through the mess that is 'Rokkk'.

Artistically, 'Rokkk' is an embarrassment. Technically, it's an abomination. Spiritually, it's a void. Commercially, it will bomb. The film is propelled by too many whoppers to create a believable, and therefore legitimately terrifying, universe. Director Rajesh Ranshinge resorts to a ceaseless stream of fake scares, dream sequences, and shrieking ladies. As Sumeet Sehgal's script careens from hackneyed endangered-woman situations to laughable implausibility and Ransinghe piles up the scary movie cliches, you will be driven back to therapy.

The plot constantly bounces from derivative to ridiculous and back to derivative again - Anushka (Tanushree Dutta) marries a widower named Ravi (Sachin Khedekar). A little girl's ghost begins terrorising Anushka, and Ravi is killed. Tantrik hag baba (Arif Zakaria) surmises that the ghost is somehow connected to Ravi's first wife. Anushka is thrown into a mental asylum, her sister Ahana (Udita Goswami) and inspector saab (Shaad Randhawa) join forces to uncover the mystery and save Anushka from the malevolent spirit. Of course director Ranshinghe seems totally oblivious to how silly and clichéd this all gets.

Prior to the film's release, the producers of 'Rokkk' had promised that there would be ambulances outside theaters playing this film, and Tanushree Dutta's performance certainly necessitates for the same. Udita Goswami and Shaad Randhawa's expressions range from discomfiture to mortification while Arif Zakaria's Tantrik hag baba will evoke raucous laughter.

Final verdict? 'Rokkk' is a misleadingly foreboding, cheaply scary and remarkably stupid thriller. It's all cheese, and for the most part it stinks.