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Zennia

@Zennia

Stunner

+ 8

Posted: 7 years ago

#111

Originally posted by: Ramsha..

Great Going👏

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Delusion is real! STKTS made more than Pari's Saturday collection on its second Friday!

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@Nostalgia-02

Stunner

+ 14

Posted: 7 years ago

#112

Anyone who has still not watched it, screamer 8 has been released, & it really does scare the shit out of you!! This so freaked me out!! 😲

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-CDnXb3ZM[/YOUTUBE]

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Arunima Sarkar

@_Arunima_

Voyager

+ 2

Posted: 7 years ago

#113

Economic Times

'Pari' review: This Anushka Sharma-thriller will send chills up your spine

There is a heart-stopping moment of elemental candour in this chilling portrayal of love amidst satanism, where Anushka Sharma, in what easily ranks as her best performance to date, is seen scavenging food from a dustbin. The irony of the situation, suffused as it is in a surfeit of ominous forebodings, is that she is ferreting for discarded food in a kitchen with a refrigerator filled with food.

The moment to me, defined the cultural and spiritual crisis that debutant Prosit Roy captures as he creates layer after layer of terrifying incredulity and crisis in a narrative spiral that finally comes together in a gasping startling rush of sanguinary salvation.

'Pari' is not an easy film to watch. While it duly declares that no animal was harmed during shooting, animals, including a pet dog and a parrot come to horribly harmful deaths in a plot that impales its characters to Satanism and challenges all the traditional tropes of the horror genre.

There are no creaking doors and shrieking banshees in 'Pari'. The atmosphere is deceptively placid.

Director Prosit Roy and his estimable cinematographer Jishnu Bhattacharjee shoot the macabre proceedings in the fading light of a terrifying twilight. Seldom have I seen a film's look and appearance being so commensurate with its mood theme and treatment.

This is not the Kolkata of Durga pujas and Howrah Bridge. Not even the bright tram-travel romantic city of Onir's Kuch Bheege Alfaaz. Not a glimpse of the iconic landmarks of the city in Pari as it negotiates through dimly-lit lanes with barking dogs and snarling miscreants. Specially portentous is a chase sequence where the hero is followed by a seedy morgue assistant, played with heaving brilliance by Dibyendu Bhattacharya.

The narrative never hesitates in pulling back from its satanic rituals to give the central love story room to breathe, and breed. Breeding, let me tell you, is central to the plot. The complex ritualism inherent in the dark omnipotent plot goes all out to claim its victims.But what I came away with was a tender love story of homeless childlike psychologically traumatized woman and a kind gentle man who provides her a home.

Yes, this the Sadma territory with Anushka Sharma and Parambrata Chattopadhyay using the measured spaces of a typical Bengali home (no fish curry smell wafting from the kitchen, though) to build a relationship between the homeless waylaid girl-child a man so kind he makes Kamal Haasan in Sadma look a wee wily.

Parambrata's unnerving empathy just flows out of the actor making his character Arnab quite a contrast to his namesake in the media world.

For Anushka Sharma, this is the career-defying role that she can brag about to her children. She sinks her soul into her traumatized role with a sighing innocence. Her Rukhsana bleeds and bleeds not just from the nose lips and eyes. The wounds run deep. This is a severely traumatized woman battling the sinner within that challenges the angel that she could have been if fate hadn't willed a satanic karma for her.

AIn many sequences, Anushka undergoes severe physical humiliation and trauma. She rises to the occasion, sometimes literally as her Rukshana climbs building sides like a ghetto Catwoman.

There are sequences of satanic rituals including glimpses of enchained women with their foetus being aborted that could easily have seemed gratuitous and repulsive. Throughout the upheavals, director Prosit Roy maintains a high level of vigilance over the proceedings.

He directs his actors with a keen sense of compassion and tension. But he knows where to let go. The narrative strains on the leash like a hound that won't stop until it bites. The impact is strong and yet moving. Anushka's imploring eyes beseeching us to understand that those who are pulled into diabolism are often victims of circumstances beyond their control, will stay with us forever.

So is this the finest supernatural thriller in living memory. Heck, yes! Don't waste your time watching the other films this week. 'Pari' is a film to see and not only for horror buffs.

The real horror that this film explores is the exploitation of the weak by those who take on themselves the task of "protecting" the moral values of a decadent story. Rajat Kapoor as a one-eyed exorcist is chilling in his normalcy.

When he perishes his false eye does a little dance of death on the floor. Like a child that will have its way even if the mother must be mortified in the process.

And yes, we will never inhale the scent of an agarbatti in the same away again.

Rating: 4.5/5

Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/pari-will-send-chills-up-your-spine/articleshow/63136655.cms

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cougarTown

@cougarTown

Sparkler

+ 6

Posted: 7 years ago

#114

Pari Has Poor Weekend And Poor Trend

Monday 05 March 2018 10.30 IST

Box Office India Trade Network

Pari has had a poor weekend of 13.50 crore nett and there is not much of a trend for the film either. Last year another Anushka Sharma starrer which did not do well Phillauri collected 14.65 crore nett and it was not a holiday weekend and it was before GST lowered the taxes on collections. The poor trend on Friday and Saturday when it had Holi to aid it meant that Sunday was unlikley to go far.

Despite being a 1.15 crore nett difference between Pari and Phillauri in collections, the real difference factoring in Holi and GST is much more. Hindi horror films earlier had problems as they were tacky in making despite some being well told stories but Pari the story telling has even gone wrong with inspiration probably coming from some foreign film industry. Only the Raaz series have managed to get away with horror and it was backed by super hit music.

The first weekend collections of Pari are as follows.

Friday - 4,00,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 4,75,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 4,50,00,000 apprx

TOTAL - 13,50,00,000 apprx

Pari needs a strong hold on Monday to have any chance of survival but its probably going to be a big ask. Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety has affected it in Delhi NCR and Punjab where a huge chunk of the premium multiplexes are but it also has to with the film not really finding appreciattion.

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Arunima Sarkar

@_Arunima_

Voyager

+ 2

Posted: 7 years ago

#115

Ramesh BalaVerified account @rameshlaus 5m5 minutes ago

@AnushkaSharma 's #Pari 1st Weekend All-India Nett BO:

Fri 4.36 cr.

Sat 5.47 cr.

Sun 5.17 cr.

Total: 15 cr.

Edited by _Arunima_ - 7 years ago

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Arunima Sarkar

@_Arunima_

Voyager

+ 2

Posted: 7 years ago

#116

taran adarshVerified account @taran_adarsh 47m47 minutes ago

#Pari has an ORDINARY WEEKEND... Growth in biz, especially on Sat and Sun, wasn't substantial... Plexes of major centres showed better trending... Fri 4.36 cr, Sat 5.47 cr, Sun 5.51 cr. Total: 15.34 cr. India biz.

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Laviee

@Laviee

Inactive

Posted: 7 years ago

#117

Member's reviews are in total contrast with the critic reviews..why so..most of the members say it isn't horror n is quite boring while we see the critics giving 3 n 3.5.Are the critics also corrupt these days?

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TheRager

@TheRager

Achiever

+ 4

Posted: 7 years ago

#118

Pari Goes Down On Monday

Tuesday 06 March 2018 11.45 IST

Box Office India Trade Network

Pari had a fall in collections on Monday which looked on the cards going by the weekend trend especially Saturday when the film failed to grow much considering it should have got the advantage of the day after Holi in many circuits and on top the Saturday factor in metros.

Pari has a drop of 50% on Monday from a poor start on Friday. The film collected in the 1.75-2 crore nett range on Monday which gives it a total of 15.25 crore nett apprx in four days. The first week will close around the 20 crore nett mark and business thereafter will be difficult. .

The first four day collections of Pari are as follows.

Friday - 4,00,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 4,75,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 4,50,00,000 apprx

Monday - 2,00,00,000 apprx

TOTAL - 15,25,00,000 apprx

Veerey Ki Wedding continued with poor collections on Monday. The first four day collections of Veerey Ki Wedding is as follows.

Friday - 70,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 75,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 75,00,000 apprx

Monday - 30,00,000 apprx

TOTAL - 2,50,00,000 apprx.

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Johnny.Balraj

@Johnny.Balraj

Rocker

+ 2

Posted: 7 years ago

#119

Originally posted by: Laviee
Member's reviews are in total contrast with the critic reviews..why so..most of the members say it isn't horror n is quite boring while we see the critics giving 3 n 3.5.Are the critics also corrupt these days?

Bollywood critics quality has gone down since the industry started believing that critics influenced the WOM and started buying them.

It did effect at some point but most of these critics have lost the credibility as auidence know these corrupt people