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In conversation with Subhash K Jha, actress Soha Ali Khan speaks on being back on screen in the horror flick Chhorri 2 and more.

What brings you back to the screen?

What brings me back to the screen is just the idea of being presented in such a wonderful way as Daasi Ma in this character to play an antagonist in horror is not something I’ve done before. And I thought, it would be a very nice challenge for me to step out of my comfort zone, to wear completely new costumes, lenses, VFX, prosthetics, a different style of walking, a different way of talking with some investment into diction classes and working on an accent, smoking a hookah, doing all kinds of things that are way outside of my comfort level. And I thought also to be a part of a horror movie because I have enjoyed watching horrors,...

Taking a look back at Khamoshh: Khauff Ki Raa, Subhash K Jha wonders if anyone remembers this horror-ible thriller in an unique installment of his feature series this time titled This Drivel That Year.

The biggest suspense about this film is, what’s Juhi Chawla doing here??!! Sporting reading glasses and trying earnestly to look like a criminal psychologist who has just unearthed the biggest mystery about serial killing, she brings in a kind of mellowness that the shrieking proceedings don’t deserve.

And then there is Shilpa Shetty, last seen giving a rousing and sensitive performance in Phir Milenge. Here she’d back to doing what she’s best known for—wriggling her posterior and making 101 faces into the camera. Shilpa is a sex worker who thumbs a ride with newcomer Rajeev Singh, who’s secretary to a dangerously under-dressed music-video floozie (Rakhi Sawant) who gets bumped off midway…...