Ragini MMS - 2 Review

One Line Review: A bone chillingly scary horror flick mashed with sensuous erotic masala that you won't forget any sooner!

Positive Points: Impressive and praiseworthy use of horror concepts and techniques; those goose bump giving thrills you have been looking for; that much expected dose of erotica; sexual jokes and adult-comic sequences that will make you laugh out loud.

Negative Points: Absence of the old real time shooting as in part one; a couple of unnecessary and foolish sequences are a bit of a turn off; insertion of Bollywood-ish sound effects and dialogues keep the film from reaching its top potential.

Plot: Rocks (Parvin Dabas) is a Bollywood filmmaker, who intends to make a horror-erotica what he calls as the 'horrex' genre film on the Ragini MMS scandal, which spread like wild fire and became popular in no time. For his ambitious project, he ropes in Sunny (Sunny Leone), a popular porn star to do the lead porn role in the movie and Satya (Saahil Prem) a failed book writer to write script for his film.

However, the real Ragini, who had faced the horrors of the paranormal entity a couple of years earlier, is in a mental asylum, still harassed by a vicious spirit. Sunny, who wants to study her role, interviews Ragini, which turns out to be a horrific and scary event, ultimately resulting in Ragini's death.

In no time, Rocks, Sunny and Satya move to the same old haunted mansion which has been chosen as the location for the film's shoot, where they find other actors and crew which includes Monali (Sandhya Mridul), Gina (Anita Hassanandani) and small time TV actor Karan (Karan Mehra).

However, as soon as they begin to get acquainted and working for the film, a couple of members start experiencing the hair raising paranormal hell that the mansion encloses within itself.

It is not much longer than they have to face the resident ghost who tormented Ragini, now it is Sunny who is the target. Now a popular doctor (Divya Dutta) from New York, who has a knack of taking up cases that cannot be explained by medical science, comes into the picture who has also been investigating Ragini's 'mental illness'.

It seems that she is the only hope of the crew trapped in the murderous mansion. The further tale unwinds the blood-curdling happenings.

Direction And Other Technical Aspects: 'Ragini MMS - 2' takes away that feel of reality and 'this worldliness' presented by its predecessor by making it a conventionally shot film. However, this loss doesn't really take away much since the director has successfully been able to keep that spine chilling horror alive and in fact make it even better.

The direction has indeed succeeded in helping the sequel live up to the expectations of the audiences who had watched part one. The sound effects and adjoining scenes fit like the right peg in the right hole and surely make you skip a beat out of uncertainty brought by the unknown beings that lurk in the dark.

The film has also its share of significant erotica, which is one more thing that people have been waiting so badly for this film. Erotic sequences have been shot so damn well, that you finally get that 'paisa vasool' feel coupled with the 'excitement'.

Performances: Let us do some justice and begin this one with Sunny Leone. Given that the film is co-defined by sex, Sunny Leone is the one who calls the shots in the other half of what is good about this film. In one scene, Sunny Leone fakes an orgasm, so damn impressively and convincingly, you may just forget that they whole film is all about paranormal. It's not only about exposure but putting in the right expression and emotion in the scenes to sizzle the screen and shoot up the temperature of the hall, which Sunny pulls off successfully.

Parvin Dabas has impressively carried forward the role of an arrogant, cocky and obnoxious filmmaker who is blinded by his self perception and wants to get things done at any cost. Parvin surely deserves applause for his role.

Saahil Prem's character is all about an introverted, quite and detached writer, who doesn't take much interest neither in the film nor in the lead actress, which he performs with perfection.

Karan Mehra performs the role of an unintentionally comic small time TV actor who is the joker in the overall film.

Perhaps Divya Dutta could have been more impressive, if she had put more spirit into her character of a doctor looking to solve mysterious cases.

Music: Though music is not much part of the film, the song 'Baby Doll' is the grooviest and also a bit teasingly sexy number in the film, which actually carries the mark of the film's identity.

'Maine Khud Ko' and 'Char Bottle Vodka' are just cursory songs in the film but still do well, but definitely not as much as 'Baby Doll'.

Final verdict: 'Ragini MMS - 2' is all about combining horror and sex into an ultimate package that evokes emotions of excitement, both erotic and that of horror. The scenes are so well planned, conceived and executed that this film indeed becomes worth a watch, along with its characteristic erotica, which is one more reason why you may love to watch it so badly. Performances by lead roles are impressive which certainly prove as an inseparable asset for the film. If the director would have kept some unwanted 'Bollywood-ish' stuff and trite jokes away from the film, it would have been much better.