Ghost Stories 2020

Ahh, after Bombay Talkies, the hum drum ‘Lust Stories’… We now have ‘Ghost Stories’.

Perhaps a more appropriate title would have been ‘Paranormal Stories’, but Indians only understand the word Ghost. Which encompasses it all for us, werewolves, zombies, witches be what it may, they are all Ghosts…

With this we get the Zoya Akhtar ‘Ghost Story’. This short is an exercise in trying not be cliché. Trying VERY hard not to give that jump scare. They spend so much time in setting up a fake sort of non scare that the final reveal is flat and frankly boring. Janhvi Kapoor is a VERY bad actress and it shows. She cannot keep the story focussed on her try as she might, her...