Cast: Kajol, Ronit Roy, Indraneil Sengupta, Kherin Sharma, Jitin Gulati, Gopal Singh, Surjyasikha Das, Dibyndu Bhattacarya, Aashit Chatterjee
Crew:
Part of Shaitaan Horror Universe
Keean Khan,
Music by Harsh Upadhyay, Shiv Malhotra, Rocky Khanna
Edited by Sandeep Francis
Cinematography by Pushkar Singh
Directed by Vishal Furia
Produced by Ajay Devgn, Jyoti Deshpande, Kumar Mangat Pathak
Kajol is one of the most beloved actresses of Indian Cinema. Her husband Ajay Devgn has decided to start an horror universe after Shaitaan success. As Shaitaan 2 is in plans, he launched Kajol’s MAA as part of it. The movie released worldwide on 27th June and Let’s discuss about it in detail.
Plot:
Shubankar (Indraneil Sengupta) shifts to Kolkata far away from his ancestral village, Chandrapur, West Bengal. He shifted his life away from his village due to a supersition and a long time belief that a demon, whose lineage belongs to Rakhtabeez. And this demon demands a human sacrifice from families belonging to a certain lineage. Shubankar’s wife Ambika (Kajol) is not aware of this issue.
Shubankar’s father dies in the village and he needs to visit his ancestral home. He vists along with his wife and daughter Shwetha (Kerin Sharma) to the village. Shwetha is chosen for sacrifice to the demon as Ambika gets increasingly paranoid with this development, she has to fight this demon like Durga to end his terror. Can she do so? How will this be connected to Shaitaan Universe? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis:
Shaitaan worked big time because of Madhavan’s spell binding performance and Janki Bodiwala. Now, MAA has performers like Kajol and Ronit Roy. While they did their best, the writing for the film did not really create the similar exhillarating experience for viewers in theatres. While the movie did try to connect with mythological stories of Goddess Durga. But the connections did not really land organically.
While the VFX portions of Rakthabeej’s history and lineage work with AI’s assistance, they do look flat and not so interesting. Ajay Devgn’s action sequence for the film is exciting but it does not really change the overall impact. MAA fails to really create a great platform for all the connections to work big time. On the other hand, even Shaitaan connection did not really work for the film, too.
Vishal Furia tried hard to find a screenplay to showcase his old ideas in this movie, too. The writing needed to take the characters more seriously and the sequences needed to have more engaging quality. The dragged narrative and unimaginative horror portions make it another ambitious project that doesn’t really material as anticipated.
Bottomline:
MAA tries hard but looses the way after initial moments.
Rating: 1.5/5
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