Alone Review

One-line Review: Deceased conjoined twin returns to haunt her surviving sister

Positive Points: Decent use of visual effects, horrific location, Bipasha's spooky avatar

Negative Points: Excessive use of creepy background score which sounds irritating after a point, Karan Singh Grover's raw acting skill

Plot: Sanjana (Bipasha Basu) returns to her hometown in Kerala along with her husband Kabir (Karan Singh Grover), to assist her ailing mother. It is the same place which holds some bitter memories and haunting secrets from her past.

Going by the flashback, Sanjana and Anjana (Bipasha Basu) were conjoined twins who shared bitter-sweet relationship with each other. In their childhood they had committed to stay together forever, but then things changed when Kabir came in their life and both the sisters got attracted towards him. However he responded to Sanjana, who eventually survived in the surgery of separation while Anjana died.

Now Anjana is back to take the revenge of her death and snatch her lost love from Sanjana.

Direction and other technical aspects: 'Alone' is the remake of 2007 Thai film of the similar name. Director Bhushan Patel has given it a bit of Indian touch by introducing "Tantriks" and "Vashikaran Mantra", other than this, the film is the carbon-copy of its original. He might have pulled the masses towards the theatres by highlighting passionate scenes in the promo; still he wins the like for remaining true to the horror genre.

Using visual effect has to be the right choice in the scene like 'Rotating Bed'. Plus, choosing Kerala backwaters to unfold the spooky moves has given a beautiful dimension to the film's cinematography.

Performances: Bipasha Basu has given a justified performance which has made her rightly adorn the "Horror Queen" tag. Besides revealing her hot body being victimized Sanjana, she looks dangerously stunning being in creepy Anjana's role.

Karan Singh Grover has marked his film debut with 'Alone', but still his act is like that of a Television serial drama. All what he does the best is the flaunting of his chiseled body.

Music: Being a horror film, 'Alone' has explored the music department in minimal with just four songs composed by Ankit Tiwari and Mithoon. Out of those handful tracks, sensuously shot "Awaara" and "Katra Katra" win the likes.

Final Verdict: 'Alone' is not the best in horror genre of Bollywood, but is slightly above those mindless spooky films coming these days. The film has enough potential to give you the minor jerks on your seat.