The wife : Zee 5
*ing: Gurmeet Choudhary, Sayani Datta
This movie should not be confused with the 2017 film directed by Björn L Runge where a wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
This one, written and directed by Sarmad Khan, set in a metro, talks about how a witch changes the life of a young boy forever and takes him on a path from where there is no coming back. This is not a spoiler alert. As the opening credits rolls, one knows how this one is going to end. The tag: The Wife: Till Death Do Us Part is a dead give away.
There are a few let downs here. The pace and how the story is told and unfolds is rather slow. This takes away the scare element. The acting is stilted as well taking away from the jump moments.
Gurmeet Choudhary is not new to this genre; he has done Khamoshiyan (2015). His expressions and disinterest in what is happening in his house is rather strange given that he is aware of the reason of the spookiness in his house.
Still this makes for an interesting watch. It is rare for Bollywood to make films that will spook you with things that go bump but The Wife does manage to give a few fright moments. But given what the story is here, the scare quotient could have been a notch more to give one the heebie-jeebies.
Sunday, 21 March 2021 | Shalini Saksena
