RAGINI MMS: A REVIEW

What we know as a “world” is composed of so many small and varied clusters of people. These clusters exist, survive and flourish with certain peculiarities which make them unique and a world in itself. One such small world consist young, educated and extrovert people who live and work in metros, away from their parents and enjoy their life to the fullest.

                                     Like thousands of people representing this ultra-modern community, Uday and Ragini also happen to live and work in Mumbai. They are young, dreamy and ambitious. They like love, sex, money and freedom to roam about like a bird. Uday and Ragini apparently love each other. They hug, kiss and cuddle each other without inhibition, like any other modern young couples living in metros. Even the idea of weekend enjoyment is not alien to them.

                        On one such weekend once, they set out for a strange destination together with some hopes and desires. Ragini has In her mind, the jolly company of Uday and lots of enjoyment throughout the way and on reaching the destination. Uday, on the other hand, has some other sinister plan in his mind, which her girl-friend Ragini is not aware of.  Zipping past the long trail of landscape, they experience all sorts of enjoyments: Music, ice- cream and long sequel of lip-locked kisses in the car. When they reach their final destination, it already becomes dark. Uday takes Ragini to an isolated deserted house. Desperate to make love, they reach upstairs. Passionately kissing each other sleeping side-by-side on a swanky bed, they got disturbed by a loud knock at the door. Their common friend Priya and her boyfriend Vishal drops in unannounced. Uday resents their arrivals but bears their presence for some time. He gets solace when they depart following a misunderstanding between them. Left alone once again, Uday and Ragini restart making love, though this time in a very different way. High on fantasy, Uday handcuffs Ragini with bed and starts kissing all over. But, soon some weird events begin to unfold before them. As the night trickles by, they become sure of being trapped under some evil spirits. Their plan goes astray as they jostle hard to come out of that spectral doom. In the process, Ragini comes to witness some cameras kept hidden at various spots of the room where they were making love sleeping on a large bed. She comes to understand about Uday’s ulterior motives of filming her sex video.  She yells and throws abuses at him but soon calms down as she has another danger looming large before her to fight out with.

                            Welcome to the adult world of ‘RAGINI MMS’, a film inspired by a true story. Produced by Ekta Kpoor and Sobha kapoor, the film depicts a bold but sad story of a girl Ragini who gets trapped in dual difficulties. She loves a boy who courts compromises for filming her sex video and secure a place in film-industry. With this motive, he takes her to an undisclosed place where some cameras were already installed. One more invisible thing which comes to pester her is the presence of an evil spirit in the house. How Ragini fights the dual tragedy? How she survives the heartbreaks? The film captures the events very naturally. The first half an hour of the film zeroes in on lives of the ultra-modern unmarried couple living in metros.  The director of the movie, parvan kirpalani, has brilliantly documented the carefree and bindass attitudes of the x-generation. Cuss words and the gutter language used by them in the movie take it to a certain degree of realism. It also looks unorthodox in depicting the character of a modern girl who enjoys her freedom without any tinge of traditional compunction. The main characters of the movie Uday(Raj Kumar Yadav) and Ragini (Kainaz Motivala) seem real and like any other pair of lovers in our sight and knowledge. Ragini looks cute, calm and beautiful. Even though Uday bosses her round, she tolerates and trusts him. Both of them have successfully skinned the characters. Without any previous meaningful triumph in their kitty and popular faces around them, they have managed to attract the attention of a huge crowd.

                                  The highpoint of the movie is its spooky description of larger part of the movie. A weird environment, dark shadow, unusual sounds, banging doors and shocking violence are scary enough to keep you at the edge of your seat. The horror sets your heart racing and you feel like screaming anytime. Still, you find yourself glued to the screen without blinking your eyes even once. The director deserves all the appreciation for his remarkable task. But, the long emphasis put on spectral scene seems to have overshadowed the real message behind the movie---- to warn girls the danger of filming their private moments. What looms large as a danger in the reel life may not be so for girls like Ragini in real life. The real threat to them would be the disclosure of any private videos filmed by their trusted boy-friend. The movie has miserably failed to highlight this heartbreaking shock experienced by Ragini in the movie and so many girls in real life. Shobha might have surely carried the warning bell for girls while producing the movie but she fails to generate the points on this count. The end also leaves so many questions unanswered.

                      The movie RAGINI MMS really deserves to be watched, especially by girls of x –generations. They can be sure of getting useful messages, though not highlighted In the movie, and decide their course of action with a logical mind. The movie is a brilliant exposition of how a romantic weekend started with excitement, hopes and desire could end up with a gruesome nightmare.

                                                VASHISTHA RAY.