Dybbuk Movie Review: Dybbuk Gives All-New Thrilling Dimensions To Bollywood Horror Sagas

Dybbuk is an official Hindi remake of Malayalam Horror Thriller Ezra (2017), which was s good success in South. If you remember those horror formulas from dozens of Hollywood flicks then you can relate to Dybbuk very quickly. As for the audience who don't watch much from Hollywood cinema, Dybbuk will be a fresh food. For instance, recently people are going gaga over The Conjuring Universe and there is a doll named 'Annabelle' in it. A doll is brought home and then horrifying nightmares begin. Instead of a doll, we have a Dybbuk box here. Rest, you know how it goes and how it ends. But wait, there is a twist in the climax, which was earlier used in Malayalam Cult Manichithrathazhu (1993), which was remade in as Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007). For Emraan Fans there was Raaz Reboot too, where Emraan played a surprising negative character. Let's avoid spoilers and experience that twist by yourself in the film.Dybbuk a fine remake of Ezra but as we know the film is presented to the Hindi audience, which is quite different from Malayalis, few minor changes are made. Mahi (Nikita Dutta) and Sam (Emraan Hashmi) shift to a new house and plan to make their family life better. But theirs plans are shattered when Mahi brings an antique Dybbuk home. Dybbuk, in Jewish mythology, is a possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. Sam meets couple of people who can help him to cure Mahi and then begins a search of secrets from the past. Writing wise, Dybbuk is a typical horror script but turning things up and down in the climax makes it noteworthy. Even the original Malayalam movie was loved for the same reasons because they don't make horror thrillers regularly. But in Bollywood, horror movies have been attempted before and so many times, with difference sub-genres. Ramsay Bros's movies scared audiences in that era and so did Bhatt Films. Dybbuk is far different from all those predictable horror movies of bollywood but additionally it creates new formulas of thrill that can be influential for future of cinema. The screenplay is little slow in the first half, well, that's before we get into ghost business. But then it has pacy extended 20-25 minutes in the extended conclusive part which will make you forget everything you have seen before.Talking about the performances, Emraan Hashmi is pretty good as Sam. His looks with those fancy specs and Nikita Dutta's beauty adds enough glamour. Manav Kaul gets couple of fantastic scenes for which you can remember him and the supporting cast is fine.Music is decent, background score is intense and the set designing is decent. Jay K, who directed the original film as well, has made a nice remake. As a whole, Dybbuk is a new kind of thriller linked with mainstream horror formulas of Bollywood. A definite watch for horror and thriller cinema lovers.

RATING - 3.5/5*