1920 London movie review

Hats off for at least the ambition - and there can be plenty of those people to doff, this appearing early England and all. Several films, fewer still with the reduced scale of a Vikram Bhatt horror, swing as repeatedly between 1920 London and 1920 “somewhere in Mewar, Rajasthan” - on streamers no less. An infinitesimal number, hopefully, do so chasing an “aatma” that exists in a locket.

This is the 3rd in Bhatt’s sequence of films with 1920 in the title, and the locket finds our couple, Shivangi (Meera Chopra) and Veer-sa (Vishal Karwal), on one of those afternoons that they spend lovingly possessing tea together in a castle that should provide the Queen some thing to think about (or at least Will and Kate). While in a song sequence establishing both that love as well as wealth, Veer-sa acquires a barrister degree.

After which the locket arrives, the “aatma” possess Veer, and he is left a contorted mess, literally. When Shivangi rushes her husband to the hospital, an unflappable English doctor (thank god for those) takes one look, and rules: tetanus.

The “Kesar-ma” (Sushmita Mukherjee), a know-all caretaker back right from Rajasthan, tells it has to be black magic. Shivangi, exchanging her English clothes and minis for elaborate lehngas, travels home, and over long conversations involving “sandhya kaal”, “peepal ka pedh”, “pavitra Gangajal” and “rudraskh” finds out that the merely one with the cure is non-e apart from an old love, Jai (Sharman Joshi). He is but a Gujar, or shepherd, and so their love had to be lost on the altar of “Rajwada”.

Jai protests however eventually does go to London, wherever the no-longer unflappable English doctor is subjected to a scene of Veer consuming uncooked meat to demonstrate that a bad spirit is consuming him. You observe, those kinds do not lose their love for meat or liquor even though dead. Jai in no way gets around to describing what draws a good spirit out.
In terms of your downed spirits, there may be Kesar-ma. Even when adorned in a dowdy gown with a dowdier scarf, Sushmita Mukherjee aka Kitty makes us hoping there’s a lot more behind those still-twinkly eyes.

Star Cast: Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, Vishal Karwal, Sushmita Mukherjee
Director: Tinu Suresh Desai