Movie Review

Afternoon Voice

Kaalo: ***
Movie Type: Horror,
Director : Wilson Louis,
Cast: Swini Khara, Aditya Shrivastava, Aditya Lakhia

If you are eagerly waiting for a Horror movie this month then Kaalo would be the one. With a very low budget and small cast this movie is been shot in the golden desert of Jaisalmer in bright light and high temperature. Where the hard work of whole cast and crew can be seen. Its first horror feature film of Wilson Louis who is the director as well as writer of this movie.
Kaalo is based on a journey of 3 couples out of which one is an old, four friends who are going for a wedding a child (Swini Khara) who is going alone to her grandmothers house accompanied by Aditya Shrivastava (well known as Abhijeet of CID), accompanied by driver and conductor going to city. But in between due to some inconvenience they have to change their way to kulbhatta. While passing through kulbhatta no one knew about the history of kulbhatta, where hundreds of years ago witchery and witchcrafts was practised on the lands of 18 century of eastern India. Kaalo's story is inspired by one such folktale about a witch named Kaalo. Which is not letting anyone to go when they reached Kulbhatta by killing everyone in a row.
Shona (Swini Khara) is a twelve year old girl who is cheerin and was loved everyone in the bus and was sitting next to Sameer (Aditya Shrivastava) who is going back to village with a handfull of dynamite, with the help of it he can blow the land and can bring some water in the well. But when the passenger realised that kaalo is looking for the girl and she could become the reason of her death, then suudenly everything changed. Whole bus who adored Shona started hating her and initiated to give her to kaalo, except Sameer who stood for her. Some passengers even used her as a bait to lure Kaalo away from them.
Anyhow the special effects wasn't up to the mark and even the decision of directing this Horror movie in a bright day light couldn't create scenes which can keep its viewers on edge. The character were not developed well due to which viewers will find it difficult to remember each character at different point of time. With low budget, weak scenes and special effects, somehow Sameer managed to kill Kaalo with his dynamite. But this film would have shown a different results if its scenes were shot in night rather shooting it in a golden day light.