Chudail Story

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Release on: May 20, 2016

Movie name	:	Chudail Story
Genres	:	Horror
Produced by	:	Pratibha Bhosale, Sonal Goenka and Kalpesh Pansare
Directed by	:	Surya Lakkoju
Production	:	Storm Motion Pictures and Clixxo Productions
Countries	:	India

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Stars : Preeti Soni, Amal Sehrawat, Nidhi Nautiyal, Sunny Charls

Story : Chudail is a popular form of female ghosts familiar through many generations in India. The popularity of the character Chudail, especially in rural areas, is unarguable. However, everyone knows bits of the myth, almost no one knows everything. The most interesting thing about these stories are; if you start telling a story, another one quickly jump starts their own stories. Further, these countless legends in our traditional culture are available in various forms of pulp fiction books, folklore and oral tradition; Like the succubus of western lore… Dracula, Vampire. “CHUDAIL STORY promises to be different. In today’s times for me, it’s very funny to see a horror film setup, in scary faces with ugly make up and screechy loud bangs. My approach has been innovative, different and I have adapted the narrative style of a thriller. You can almost feel the suspense elements in the Hitchcockian way that arrests you with its sheer intense drama. I am an ardent fan of Hitchcock films and am very curious how the audience will react to this experiment. Taking a cue from the richly imaginative and fascinating traditional ‘chudail’ stories, I am triggered by its sheer audacity of holding power; I am attempting to tell a terrifying story, that one hasn’t seen till now”, shares Surya Lakkoju, the writer & director of the film.

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Barely a week after the unintentionally funny 1920 London hit the screens, another chudail is waiting to show us a better time. Thankfully, this one at least knows the basics of make-up and is not caught amidst a perpetual bad hair day. But her story is equally dull.

Director Surya Lakkoju took a cue from Karan Johar's joke about casting good-looking people and we get a hot demoness, who adds oomph to the film. It could've been easy to buy into her simmering rage had it not been for her feeble backstory. The chudail is appealing till she doesn't murmur a dialogue. Of course, no one would expect good acting in a film with such an obnoxious title but this one is so bad that it is not even good. The inane dialogues make the two-and-a-half hour's runtime unbearable, leaving you more bored than scared.

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