Creature 3D Movie Review : Amazing creativity let down by uninspiring plot
Anant Vernerkar
Story
The fight of a woman hotelier for survival and her vengeance for brutal killing of hotel guests by a Creature - Brahma Rakshas.
Plot
While the movie started off well, it lost its way 30 minutes into the movie. Bipasha (Ahana) is a South Mumbai girl driven out of the city by unscrupulous property mafia following her father’s suicide. Being an Interior Designer by profession, with the help of a bank loan, she opens up Glendale Forest hotel – a Boutique Hotel in the forests of Hmachal Pradesh.
Luring customers with the tagline “Come to heaven on Earth” she inaugurates the hotel on Christmas Day which is then sarcastically commented as “Come to hell on Earth” by the father of a deceased son-in-law who had checked in for honeymoon and was killed by the Creature the following day.
Mukul Dev - a Zoology professor who has significant knowledge of Brahma Rakshas reads of the attack on Glendale Forest Hotel and reaches the venue uninvited. Imran Abbas Naqvi, the debutant Pakistani Actor is a guest at the hotel and falls in love with Bipasha. The rest of the cast are insignificant.
The movie introduces the Creature as ‘Brahma Rakshas’. The animated Creature looks like a lizard and 10 feet tall. The Creature is released from years of captivity after a Peepal tree is cut to make way for a highway. Brahma Rakshas is a cursed human who committed himself to God but then strayed to commit unpardonable sins. He becomes neither human nor demon and neither goes to heaven nor hell. He becomes a combination of man and animal, captured in the body he lives in and ends up becoming man-eater. He can only be killed by a weapon dipped in the waters of Pushkar Temple on Karthik Purnima Day. Luckily for you, the movie succeeds in reviving only one Brahma Rakshas as multiple of them could have delayed the release of the movie for a decade.
With this fanciful concept and unsupported plot the Director struggles to deliver. Bipasha Basu tries her best to hold the film together, but a flawed script hampers her efforts.
Bottomline
While the movie boasts of ‘Indigenous Technology’ and ‘Made in India’ tag, not sure why they took a Pakistani actor as his presence did not add any value. Overall, the USP of the movie is only Bipasha and the animated Creature. The songs and lyrics are good but wasted as it loses its essence due to the poor screenplay. Expecting too much of horror and thrill may disappoint you. There is absolutely no logic in much of the film and you can safely stay away from this 'monster' thriller.
Rating: 2/5