Film Phhir Review

Movie Review: Phhir

Star cast: Rajneesh Duggall, Adah Sharma, Roshni Chopra, Parag Tyagi, Mohan Agashe, Natasha Sinha, Monica etc.

Directed by: Girish Dhamija

Again film titled Phhir (Again) has not been suited with film tale. Director tries to imitate the Hollywood films repeated scenes method.

The story starts off with an unexplained bearded gent coming to visit a Godman (Mohan Agashe) seeking mercy for some sins that he has committed. The Godman asks him to write his sins down on a paper and hide it in a secret place so he may repent for them in his next life. The bearded gent (whose face is not shown at all) does the needful and pulls the trigger on himself.

Cut to the present where a stubble and upset jeans clad Rajneesh Duggal plays Kabir Malhotra, a doctor living an ideal life with his wife Sia (Roshni Chopra to play a law professor) in England. After a romantic number which shows how the duo is absolutely in love to each other, Sia strangely disappears leaving a helpless hubby to try and figure out what went wrong.

A visit to the police station brings him in contact with Disha (Adah Sharma), a 'medium' who can touch things and sense the future or past. Disha offers to help him out and after an initial session of skepticism, Dr. Malhotra agrees to the helping hand.

During the 'investigation' for tracing Sia, hubby Kabir receives a ransom call and after a mediocre cat and mouse hunt through the dark and wet streets of Newcastle, the good guys land at an old mansion where they find a letter and a photograph in a coffin like box.

On reading the letter, it becomes clear that the bearded gent who bumped himself off in the initial few minutes of the film is Malhotra in his past life that had thrown his wife off the roof in a fit of anger after suspicions of unfaithfulness and then on discovering her innocence, killed himself.

With a transformed vigour to not lose his wife in the present life, Malhotra again turns up at the ransom drop meeting where… gasp…it turns out that his wife Sia, who had been playing the typical bimbo turned kidnap victim, is actually a leather miniskirt clad vamp who had faked the whole kidnapping for dirty lucre (apparently, her pop in law is Mr. Moneybags himself).

Disha opportunely manages to save Duggal from getting killed and the vampish Sia is exposed for the gold digger that she really is. A seriously injured Duggal is brought back to life after his soul has another tête-à-tête with Godman Mohan Agashe over sins and regret. The climax shows Malhotra tracing Disha to Goa where it is discovered that Disha was the wife that Malhotra had bumped off in his past life. Rings are exchanged… and the two then live gladly ever after.

Though the tale has its share of unforeseen twists, the performances tend to dilute the effect. It is quite tough to accept Duggal as a surgeon when he dresses up and acts like a college student. Furthermore, he is not capable to efficiently pull off the anguish of a husband whose wife is missing.

Like said previously, Roshni Chopra too fails to look her part of a law professor at a reputed university though the vamp act pulled in the last half of the movie seems more like her. Of the three, Adah Sharma manages to play her part sufficiently as the 'medium' that is blessed with the power to see things. Though she doesn't earn any accolades.

Mohan Agashe as the wise Godman/sage is rather wasted in the role.

The dialogues are average, while the music fails to entertain viewers. The director's habit of repeating the scenes again and again from the viewpoint of different actors starts to get frustrating. Except for a few twists and turns, it can be watchable for once.