Ragini MMS hits theaters this Weekend

The much awaited Ragini MMS, is the latest Bollywood release, a movie of the thriller-horror genre and also of the Ekta Kapoor genre it must be said. Producer Ekta Kapoor seems to have mastered the art of making bold new cinema on shoestring budgets, that shock and entertain in equal measure taking lesser known actors and making the world sit up and take notice.

After the path breaking Love Sex aur Dhokha and critically acclaimed Shor in the City, Ekta and Shobha Kapoor give us Ragini MMS, a film shot in 25 days on a budget of just 1.3 crores. Directed by Pawan Kriplani, the film’s story and screenplay are by Pawan Kripalani and Vaspar Dandiwala. The film stars Raj Kumar Yadav as Uday and Kainaz Motivala as Ragini and is based on certain true events and also, it is alleged, the cult Hollywood film Paranormal Activity (the grainy camera work is one indication).
This ‘Sensuous Paranormal’ film bears the tagline – “They don’t know it yet. It’s a Threesome” and it is significant that the film releases today; on Friday the 13^th. The story is about a young couple, who go away for a dirty weekend in the woods at a deserted bungalow on the outskirts of Mumbai. The young man wants to make a sex tape of the intimacy that they will indulge in and then sell it off but finds that the whole place is rigged with cameras. Soon the intrusive cameras become the least of the problems of the young couple when horror element makes itself evident. As the young couple gets intimate, the spooky element decides to join in the fun by pulling hair, wounding and flinging the two around.