Oberoi is a successful businessman - and a devout follower of religious
leader Gurudev, whom he thinks he owes all of his success. Gurudev though
is pretty much a fraud, living off rich but gullible people, but he has
the ability to set up deals between his sect members that they are just
too blind to set up without his help, and then take the praise for it. Then
though, one of Oberoi's businesspartners dies, which could put Oberoi's
entire operations into jeopardy, and Gurudev knows it has something to do
with Oberoi's mansion that seems to be haunted - so he calls upon his
teacher for help. But while Gurudev is an essentially benevolent fraud
(after all, he does set up business deals), his teacher is pure evil: He
sees to it that Gurudev dies in an accident, and when that causes Oberoi
to have a heart attack, he refuses to let him have heart surgery ... Good
thing that Oberoi has a son, Raj, though, who doesn't at all believe in
Gurudev's teachings and much less in his teacher's, and who sees to it that
Oberoi is treated to a round of life-saving surgery after all, then he
researches what's wrong with the family mansion, learning that three girls
have committed suicide here decades back and are now haunting the place.
Only, there is no indication the girls are evil spirits ... Outside of
the mansion, Raj has his final showdown with the teacher, which ends with the teacher
preparing to take Raj's life - when the spirits of the three
girls intervene, saving Raj and seeing to it that the teacher gets his
just desserts ... This film starts on a humourous note,
portraying Gurudev as the (admittedly likeable) fraud he is whose outfit works mafia-like rather than anything else. Unfortunately, it's
downhill from there, as the haunted house story all characters are thown
into doesn't only not make too much sense, the entire cast of characters
doesn't fit into it too well either. And speaking of characters,
especially the teacher is so boringly one-dimensional that his run
as the villain of the piece doesn't work at all beyond his admittedly mean
looks. Add narrative inconsistencies and a lack of tension and suspense to
all of this, and you are left with pretty little. Not worth a look,
definitely.
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