“Main yahaan baithkar chamatkar ka intezaar nahi kar sakti,” said Kajol toward the climax, as her daughter is abducted by supernatural pressure. Fair enough because, frankly, neither are we able to. We’ve already spent hours anticipating any sign of horror in this horror-mythological movie. If something doesn’t starts spooking us soon, we would call the monster ourselves.
Plot and story of Kajol’s film
Maa, directed by Vishal Furia of Chhorii body starts with a woman child’s sacrifice in Chandrapur. Ambika (Kajol) is mainly a happy life with her husband Shubhankar (Indraneil Sengupta) and daughter Shweta (Kherin Sharma). For a few reasons, they do not want to visit Chandrapur, Shubhankar’s ancestral village. But his father’s death forces him to move and visit, and he dies. Ambika and Shweta, grieving, deliver it as a go-to after three months at the insistence of Joydev (Ronit Roy) as they plan on selling their ancestral residence. But Ambika is not ready for it.
The movie pins its story of Goddess Kali and Raktabija, an epic premise no doubt. One drop of the demon’s blood, which fell to the Earth, creates a monster that terrorises the village for many years. Sounds good on paper. But the film takes ages to set the mood in the first half of. You are neither scared nor sucked into this world.
The verdict
There’s a social statement consists somewhere in the ritualistic blood, VFX smoke, and characters speaking Bengali intentionally in this type of heavy accent of Kajol movie as though their life depended upon it- coupled with a feminist undertone. It slightly lands. The reason is in location, though: the concept of a desperate mother becoming Maa in the climax is carried out well and is frankly the only component where you are hooked.
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