Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
ChicRawIdol
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Cissy Évelyne
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Allissa
.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Varun Chaudhary
Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, 1920 London is the third supernatural drama produced by Vikram Bhatt set in that year. The fascination began in 2008 with 1920, which was centred around a ghostly stately manor and an exorcism.In 2012's 1920: The Evil Returns, the director, cast and locations were new, but the story revisited the themes of possession and evil spirits idea. Desai's 2016 film is set between in 1920s London and Rajasthan.However period correctness is clearly not a priority with the filmmaker as we see Shivangi, a royal married woman with her head uncovered in a Rajput court, and gliding around her manor in the UK with her knees and arms exposed.This is a fashion forward Victorian era! If one were to dwell on authenticity, it would be hard to get past the changing length of Sharman Joshi's beard and hair.So let's cut to the plot instead. The life of a happily married young couple in London changes horrifyingly after the arrival of a surprise gift from India. A spirit seeps out and possesses the husband. Shivangi (Meera Chopra) returns to India to seek help as she sees her husband Veer Singh's (Vishal Karwal) health decline dramatically.Fearing that a dangerous spirit has possessed him, she approaches a renowned exorcist. He turns out to be none other than her former lover, Jai (Sharman Joshi). In spite of having been dumped and served jail term because of Shivangi's betrayal, Jai travels to London to save Veer.The story relies on pulling off one major twist, but it's a rather obvious one and once you figure it out the sporadic and half-hearted attempts at grisly, jumpy scares ebb away. A jilted lover with black magic expertise is hardly likely to be a saint.Sharman Joshi tries hard to play menacing, mysterious and repentant but he's just out of step in the part of an exorcist. Meera Chopra is unimpressive as the helpless wife while Karwal spends most of the film lying in a bed being eaten away by the evil spirit.Besides one extended exorcism scene, and the painstaking make-up that shows Veer's gradual degradation by the spirit, this is a drab effort with hardly a shock sandwiched between all the frills, frocks and Rajput finery.Perhaps all the horror there was, has been sucked out of 1920.
sanjubhat
I read a couple of reviews written by some of the respected critics on Friday. All of them had trashed the movie, calling it one of the funniest films of the year. So what did I do
. Went and checked it out on Saturday morning dragging my ever faithful, lovable but very reluctant wife with me.This is my honest opinion about the film and what I actually felt after watching it.Plot: A Royal couple - Veer Singh ( Vishal Karwal) and his wife Shivangi ( Meera Chopra ) from Rajasthan are happily settled in London. One day they receive a locket as a gift from one of the Subhedars from their hometown. This is when things start to go wrong . The locket is cursed and Veer gets possessed by a "Daayan" released from it . The evil one seems to be slowly sucking the life from Veer and hence a distraught Shivangi rushes to Rajasthan to find a cure for her husband. She is asked to meet " Mewar wale Baba", Jai Singh Gujjar (Sharman Joshi) who is an expert in dealing with spirits and cases of demonic possession . There is a parallel track here. Jai (Sharman) is also the ex-lover of Shivangi who had been sent to prison by Shivangi's parents. His only crime being that of falling in love with a princess while he is a person from the lower caste (how very original ??). Initially reluctant , he agrees to come to London and help her deal with the Daayan who has possessed her beloved husband. Rest of the film is about how they get about it and finally accomplish their goal.Wait
there is also a twist in the film which signals the intermission. Wont reveal it as it will act as a spoiler to the pitiful few who might be actually contemplating watching it in the theaters , especially after reading the reviews written by our esteemed critics !! What a travesty of justice indeed !! This is perhaps ,the only wow moment in the film , something different attempted finally.What I felt about the film: Hey
not a bad film at all . Compared to the first two films i.e 1920 and 1920 – Evil Returns , this is far less scarier ( my wife will vouch for it
. she actually sat through the whole movie without running away !!) . The makers of the film time and again stop short of going all out , especially after building the base for really scary scenes .This makes the scenes look ordinary rather than coming out as really scary ones . This aspect could have been covered better. Intentional or not
only they will be able to answer . This may be a let-down for the die-hard horror film buffs who had enjoyed the first two movies of the franchise. Sharman Joshi has acted decently , so have the rest of the cast . The film comes out as an Horror / Adventure film ( like Shaapit – yoo hoo
. Anyone seen the film ??) , not too scary yet having its moments. Special Effects are good but nothing new has been tried out. This is definitely not a funny film
.. gives you the scares but not to a great degree. Final Verdict : It is a good attempt but somewhat falls short of expectations. Watch the film in theaters or otherwise without paying much attention to reviews. " Dikhave Pe Na Jao , Apni Akal Lagao".
Abhishek Mishra
Watched This movie today because of my friend insisted too much.Bad Things of movie -> Ghost is great to play hide and seek and funny more then scary. -> One of the worst direction I've ever seen in my life. -> Bad story line -> Very immature movie mistakes, example, when sharman joshi throws wood block to mirror and it cracks but the locket he threw got passed, but how? -> Bad casting -> Actors didn't know what the acting actually is. -> bad CGI effects. -> sharman joshi doesn't look like mewad wale baba, LOL, c'mon he just look like a young man who can do good comedy but not horror.One more funny moment, when a person (baba) want to control evil spirit, the spirit takes him in the mirror and beats the hell out of him and throws back outside of mirror, Its funny and i liked that scene because of that comedy which was actually should be horror.-> Ghost just fly around. Why ghost took sharman's soul at the end but not anyone else? Hell, sharman could offer anyone else's soul to ghost, This is one more stupid mistake.-> How ghost have the locket back if it was threw in the Thames river? is the ghost scuba diver?-> At first ghost took control of the body of veer singh but later on the ghost was fighting with sharman joshi, basically director thinks that we are stupid, and yes that ghost has a body, lol a soul has a body (in mirror world though) then can we can call her a human?Good Things of movie -> Found none.So in the end watch something else like Tom & Jerry at youtube instead of this shitty movie.
Mann Sarbhoy
This movie represents Indian Film Industry as immature and imperfect. The starting storyline of the movie is not descriptive enough and you ask yourself 'Why should i watch the movie further, if i don't feel connected to the main characters?'My another astonishment - Jai (Sherman Joshi) lives in a worn out hut but wears the latest updated fashion of 21st century! I wanna ask, where in India, the 1920's, did he get his coat dry cleaned? And how did he pay for the dry cleaning service?? (He never took any money from his clients calling it social service)Let's come to the branding. The movie is a mixture of scenes and ideas copied from Hollywood movies such as, 'The Exorcist', 'The exorcism of emily rose', 'The Conjuring', 'The Ring' and maybe more i don't recall all of 'em......which goes bad on the image of Indian Film Industry.....being released in foreign countries like U.S.A etc.The only thing I can remember original to this movie is bad animation. Example, the whole scene with ship to London, turns out to be more close to Cartoon Animation films we've watched as kids on Cartoon Network and all. So, I doubt they've even been to London and actually, shot out the sets on hill stations.Meera Chopra's Acting is monotonous. Every time she gets scared, the intensity of expressions on her face is the same.Expecting box office collections due to the previous image(of 1st part) of '1920 series' is foolery. Deception to public's trust.The final impression this movie had on my mind,'Jab jab bhoot hasaa, tab mai bhi hasaa' i.e. every time the ghost laughed, i laughed as well. :D