1920 - Evil Returns | About the movie
‘1920: Evil Returns’ is not a sequel to ‘1920’ but basic premise is almost the same. A big Victorian villa, a loner, a hopeless lover and a ‘shikari aatma’ (Hunter soul), all join hands to come up with a story that made the audiences wait for songs to avoid the questions on their intelligence.
Jaidev Varma (Aftab Shivdasani) is an acclaimed poet who gets an ardent admirer in Smriti (Tia Bajpai). The studious kind of lady couldn’t make it to Jaidev’s poetry recitation event, so she sends a letter to him, and then a series of love letters keeps them engaged for more than two years. Now, when they are deeply in love and want to meet each other in person for the first time in their lives, an evil spirit (Sharad Kelkar) takes control of the poor lady. What happens afterwards can range from a practical joke to a nightmarish experience, depending on your own bouquet of memories.
‘1920: Evil Returns’ opens with a sequence that has been done to death since the inception of horror films in India. In fact, these ‘ghoda-gaadis’ (Horse carts) and lantern carrying Ramu Kakas have become so redundant that people start giggling the moment anybody even remotely close to these ‘things’ appear on the screen, but the director Bhushan Patel relied on the clichés and proceeded with a scene where the sound designer seems to be at least ten times more scared than the heroine.
What would one do after listening to some weird war cry like sounds in a jungle? Well, Tia Bajpai is a brave girl who goes after the sound despite knowing that her servant hasn’t returned since many minutes. She spots her servant sitting beneath a tree in a thick jungle with his head down; of course she would go there and touch his chin, otherwise how do you think the vfx will come into the play.
