Hawa is a 2003 Bollywood movie that has plenty of influences - well, outright things to steal - and got a review that said, "Self-respecting moviegoers looking for quality film rather than shameful sexual exploitation should steer far clear of this compost."
I mean, a movie with shots cribbed from Poltergeist and a plot so close to The Entity that it even copies its sound design? Was this made for me?
Sanjana (Tabu) is a divorcee who can't afford to live in the city any longer - to be fair, the hillside house she has is absolutely huge and gorgeous, so I don't know how poor she is - that runs an antique shop. When a Tibetan woman gives her a locket, she soon sells it to be able to make her mortgage. On the way home, she finds that old woman dead and the couple brings back the locket because they keep seeing the woman.
Directed by Guddu Dhanoa and written by Sutanu Gupta and Sanjay Masoomm, Hawa starts slowly and you may think that it's going to be classy, as Tabu is a major actress. Just hold on, because this movie suddenly remembers that it's trying to be The Entity soon enough, giving you numerous scenes of human and sex couplings. And because the well on her property is filled with dead souls - not unlike the burial ground in Poltergeist - Sanjana is dealing with more than one ghost. She even enjoys the demonic sex once, which upsets her so much that she nearly loses her kids to the demons.
There are even hints of Cujo, as the demons possess the family dog.
Unlike many of the Bollywood remakes that you may watch, there are no songs in this movie. I have no idea how that happened, to be honest, and wish that it did have something catchy. It does, however, take a lot of Charles Bernstein's ideas from the score to the movie it's stealing from.
Well, I mean, The Entity. Because just as I typed that, there's a dimension that opens up and takes Sanjana's daughter as if she were the Bollywood Carol Anne and a scene in the bedroom with winds and toys blasting around that my way walked into, looked at the screen and said, "Is this Poltergeist now?" There's also an exorcist, a demon in the well and the kind of open door ending that would make Hollywood producers happy.
I'm easy, but I thought this was great. I say that because it's the first Bollywood movie I've seen that felt and looked like it could have been made by Filmirage.
How about those Commando and Michael Jackson posters?
I mean, a movie with shots cribbed from Poltergeist and a plot so close to The Entity that it even copies its sound design? Was this made for me?
Sanjana (Tabu) is a divorcee who can't afford to live in the city any longer - to be fair, the hillside house she has is absolutely huge and gorgeous, so I don't know how poor she is - that runs an antique shop. When a Tibetan woman gives her a locket, she soon sells it to be able to make her mortgage. On the way home, she finds that old woman dead and the couple brings back the locket because they keep seeing the woman.
Directed by Guddu Dhanoa and written by Sutanu Gupta and Sanjay Masoomm, Hawa starts slowly and you may think that it's going to be classy, as Tabu is a major actress. Just hold on, because this movie suddenly remembers that it's trying to be The Entity soon enough, giving you numerous scenes of human and sex couplings. And because the well on her property is filled with dead souls - not unlike the burial ground in Poltergeist - Sanjana is dealing with more than one ghost. She even enjoys the demonic sex once, which upsets her so much that she nearly loses her kids to the demons.
There are even hints of Cujo, as the demons possess the family dog.
Unlike many of the Bollywood remakes that you may watch, there are no songs in this movie. I have no idea how that happened, to be honest, and wish that it did have something catchy. It does, however, take a lot of Charles Bernstein's ideas from the score to the movie it's stealing from.
Well, I mean, The Entity. Because just as I typed that, there's a dimension that opens up and takes Sanjana's daughter as if she were the Bollywood Carol Anne and a scene in the bedroom with winds and toys blasting around that my way walked into, looked at the screen and said, "Is this Poltergeist now?" There's also an exorcist, a demon in the well and the kind of open door ending that would make Hollywood producers happy.
I'm easy, but I thought this was great. I say that because it's the first Bollywood movie I've seen that felt and looked like it could have been made by Filmirage.
How about those Commando and Michael Jackson posters?