Humraaz

Very rare is a film that holds you right from the beginning itself and doesn't let you loose until the end credits show up on screen.

Humraaz is such a film. Everything from the characters to the entire wicked atmosphere will glue your eye balls to the screen and I mean it! The best part of the movie is probably the fact that what starts like a perfectly normal scenario, suddenly gets twisted in the middle suddenly! and things start getting fishy gradually.

Performance wise the three leads are perfect in executions. However its the aantagonist Akshay Khanna who will take your breath away. Abbas Mustan the duo lay pretty heavy emphasis on the villains in their films and this film is no exception. Secondly the emotions expressed throughout the film by the actors are very believable, specially Bobby!

Overall a mind-blowing film and one of the best films Bollywood has to offer!

I give this gem a total 10 out of 10. It deserves so!

Humraaz(secret of both) is a fine thriller made in this new millennium.. Rarely female actresses give best performances in Indian movies.Amisha Patel is good and she also brings tears in our eyes in the climax scenes.Abbas-Mustan has proved that female characters can perform better than male characters.Amisha Patel's performance is best as well as thrilling. A big salute to Amisha Patel's performance.Her face reactions are best and cleverly matching to this thrilling . The movie had bas been successful due to Amisha Patel's Performance. Wow a female performance after 80's.Surely the female performance make this movie a superb one.

After all the tripe such as K3g and the like, along with Company Humraaz is one of the better efforts from Bollywood this year. Slick production with a Hollywood inspired script, this film is far more gripping for its 3 hours. With good acting by bollywood standards (Amisha Patel doesnt have to cry!! yippeee!!!)and well placed songs in context of the film (Bardaasht is admittently the stand out track with a fair few fillers), Humraaz is a winner. The backgroud score is exceptional and compliments the on-screen action. This film could have benefitted from a slightly bigger budget because one gets the feeling that the directors had cut alot of corners in the filming of this film, due to lack of money. However, they should be praised for trying somthing different and not palming us off with the dire Chopra/Johar love triangles. Humraaz is what the indian film industry should be striving for.

8/10

Great thriller that takes a look into the dark side of ambition. Each character has questionable motives, and the human drama alone kept me riveted thru the film. The acting is convincing and the plot has many surprising twists and turns. I enjoyed that every main character had committed some wrong--that they weren't totally innocent. It made the boundaries between hero/villain unclear at times, and it kept the movie unpredictable, and more believable. Amisha Patel was absolutely charming, Akshaye Khanna has a dark scheming edginess that gave me the chills, and I especially enjoyed Bobby Deol as the rich suave bachelor. Bobby Deol amazed me with his acting skills, and portrayed a wide range of emotion very convincingly. I loved the tension that this movie maintained...it was truly edge of your seat!

Humraaz is a thriller from Bollywood inspired by Hollywood. It's a love story too. Of course it has songs and they are ok in the context. The twists and turns are well handled and together with a cast that seems to enjoy themselves the film scores quite some points. Helas at the very end it loses a lot of them again with a ridiculous over the top showdown that is quite indigestable unless you really dig that particular brand of violence that is so typically Bollywood. Too bad since the film has a couple of violent moments before that which are much more realistic and scary. More amusing than scary is the fact that the bad guy usually is accompanied by Gregorian chants when he goes about his business.