The writers of the movie had a strong premise, and they decided to fool around with it. The end is not related to the means in any case. Then she has a sunstroke of genius - she suggests they find out whom the phone belonged to earlier.Īs the couple move from clue to clue, they come across some bizarre people (who seem even scarier because they are not really actors). Sheena, meanwhile, continues to pose against the sea (reminiscent of the book cover of most editions of The French Lieutenant's Woman). No matter how many times he throws away the phone, or beats it to pulp, it keeps coming back to him. Then he confesses that there is a problem with the phone. Sheena, too busy posing against the seascape in her long, flowing dresses at regular intervals, does not seem to notice the change in her beau. He lines his eyes with kohl, wears ear-rings and leather jackets, and behaves strangely. Absurdly, he says nothing to Sheena.Īnd slowly, he is possessed.
The new phone then rings in the dead of the night, and Sam finds himself in a video call with a strange woman (Mrinalini Sharma).
The couple romances and makes out, and after a song-and-dance and various shots of Fiji, and one sequence where Sheena tries to scare Sam, they both fall asleep. Sam then buys a second-hand 3G-enabled mobile phone. She sulks because he cannot seem to get away from work, but when he finally lands up, she runs into his arms with reckless abandon, knocking his phone into the deep blue.
So there is Sheena (Sonal Chauhan), who is waiting in Fiji for her boyfriend Sam (Neil Nitin Mukesh), even as she emerges from the sea in slow motion in her bikini. The title montage then takes off, and that is the most innovative, creative and entertaining part of the movie (although it can be further fine-tuned - fonts can be better, for example). That bit of information is spooky enough to make you shift uncomfortably in your seat. Turning directors with 3G - The Killer Connection, the writer duo informs us, at the beginning of the movie, that "phantom calls" (all those blank calls that we receive on our cells) are actually attempts by the spirits of those dead and gone to contact us. Stories woven around hidden secrets of the virtual world make for perfect science fiction horrors, or, in the case of Sheersak Anand and Shantanu Ray Chibber (writers of Aa Dekhen Zara), a supernatural thriller. And therefore scary, fathomless, cryptic, creepy to an extent, and definitely enigmatic. Technology is on a new high, and new gadgets and contraptions are, more often than not, inexplicable to the common mind.
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