Indian End of Days. Review on Rudraksh

Firstly, sorry for being late in writing this one. Actually, I had heard so much negative about this film, that I had to wait for it to be shown on cable TV. So, here's the review....

Rudraksh is a film that deals with ''science trying to explain paranormal activities''. If you have seen ''End of Days'', you would find the story similar.

The Story

The story mainly revolves around Varun (Sanjay Dutt), Dr. Gayatri (Bipasha Basu), Bhuria (Suniel Shetty), Lali (Ishaa Koppikar).

Dr. Gayatri is busy investigating healing powers that science cannot explain and voodoo practices that defy all logic. Her research brings her and her team of researchers from US to India, where she gets to meet Varun. Varun is a spiritual healer, who takes away the pain from patients using his supernatural powers. Dr. Gayatri and co. is thrilled to find the existence of such a man, and starts monitoring the brain of Varun, so that they could explain the paranormal using science.

Dr. Gayatri's unusual experiments suddenly hurtle Varun towards guessing the existence of a dark power that is hidden and evil. That hidden power is Bhuria. Bhuria was a labor contractor, who while working in an archaeological site at Sri Lanka stumbled upon a Rudraksh. Now, this wasn't an ordinary Rudraksh. According to science, it was a multi-dimensional hologram in the form of a seed. It had the power to mutate its bearer into a power beyond all reckoning.

Bhuria had always wanted to capture the Rudraksh, but he was unable to do so. So his task was to convince Varun to take his side and convert his(Varun's) superpowers into evil forces. For this, he even kills Varun's father (Kabir Bedi). Now it is upto Varun to remove evil forces from the face of the Earth....

The Performance

Both Sanjay and Suniel gave good performances. Bipasha Basu played her part well as well as Ishaa Koppikar. Kabir Bedi also enacted his part well. Mani Shankar scores well on the SFX part. The film uses some nice special effects, espescially the storm in Kabir Bedi's ashram, is worth watching in an Indian cinema.

Overall

Overall, the concept of the film is worth appreciating. The concept of good vs. evil (End of Days) has been mixed pretty well with Ram vs. Ravana, which will cater to the Indian audience. The song 'Ishq Khudai' also stands out.

I guess this is the first time, that the Indian audience is being exposed to such kind of a film, where paranormal activites as well as scientific explanations are included, 'coz many people who have seen the film have found certain parts, such as genetic mutation, dimaag ka password, electromagnetic fields being emitted from people's body, etc. to be unrealistic. But these are all possible. Even getting inside another person's mind is being researched by defence organizations around the world!!! I just don't understand why Indian people don't appreciate new ideas shown in Indian movies, whereas they would applaud a movie made in Hollywood having used the same idea!!!