This was a fun Indian folk horror with a pertinent and important message in their culture today. Being American and not well versed in Indian cinema, I will not be commenting on many stylistic attributes because it feels ignorant when I am not familiar with their style. I also have not seen the original. I tried to watch that first but it is not available anywhere at the moment.
And you could certainly tell this was not in the syle of a western film. The way it was shot, looked, edited... most of it in general... and I enjoyed that and found it refreshing.
I am partial to folk horror so I quite enjoyed this story. It definitely had some solid spook throughout while also leaning heavily on jump scares. Cool sfx and makeup at times as well. It's not my favorite when all the exposition takes place in the form of a drawn out monologue and that was what was done most of the movie, but it was still a good story regardless.
The acting seemed solid all around. Everyone was like, oddly attractive and put together at all times which again might just be Indian Cinema idk haha.
I think this would have been a lot more successful if it was trimmed down. There just really wasn't much of a reason for the 2hr run time. Lots of drawn out and unnecessary scenes. Still successful regardless and would recommend.
