Saturday, November 03, 2018
Lupt
No Scares Here
A family driving down a dark winding road see a stroller with a strange looking doll in it, and are quite unperturbed by it, even though after Chucky the killer doll of the Child’s Play movies, they should have been warned of the horrors to follow. The audience, however, knows exactly how the story of Lupt will play out; to make it easier, director Prabhuraj starts leaving clues right at the start.
Harsh Tandon (Jaaved Jaafferi) is an overambitious businessman, who wants to be at the very top; so he snaps at everyone in the office, and at his unhappy-looking wife Shalini (Niki Walia) at home. But when he starts hallucinating, a friendly shrink tells him insomnia is causing his mind to see things, and suggests a vacation.
Lupt must be the mildest horror movie ever made, with flickering lights, a creaking , a spooky log cabin in the middle of nowhere and pasty-faced ghosts, meant to scare audiences, who have undoubtedly seen worse.
For some reason, Jaaferi copies Amitabh Bachchan; Vijay Raaz looks suitably blank since he doesn’t really have much to do; the other actors just carry on gamely, probably aware that like the road in the film, Lupt won’t take them anywhere.
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