The weekend getaway quickly changes gets as they find themselves in a house that had been rigged with cameras. The cameras that were meant to capture love-making are witness to something that is beyond the realm of human understanding.
As awesome as a weekend of lovemaking sounds, Bollywood movies are such a tease sexually that you should never expect any type of sexual contact.
Uday plans a weekend at a farm house with the intention of filming his sexcapades with Ragini. His plans are seemingly wrecked when her best friend, Piya, shows up with her boyfriend, Vishal, in toe.
Vishal tells Uday about the urban legend going around the town regarding the house. Supposedly a woman was killed by her family after being declared a witch, only to come back and kill them all. He then immediately walks down the darkest, creepiest hallway alone. To his credit though, when he freaked out, he had the proper reaction and left.
With them gone, Udays plan is back on track and he again tries to make it happen. After handcuffing Ragini to the bed and making some sexual moves, he is paranormally attacked. Freaked out, and in panic mode, he accidentally reveals a hidden camera and Regini discovers his plan to make a sex tape.
Cementing his scumbag status, he leaves her cuffed to the bed because he can't to be there anymore, and has to go. He's immediately tossed back into the house battered and bloody and accuses her of setting this up. He then quickly kills himself and leaves her to carry the movie on her own.
Digging around, she finds a bottle of vodka and decides there's nothing else to do but get acquainted with it. (Which is about the 2nd best response to this situation.) Turns out, vodka sucks. The lights go out again and she gets roughed up by the spirit. She finally frees herself of the cuffs and finds that escaping the house will be no easy task.
Pro Tip: never use sex cuffs. Sure there they're sexy and fun, but what happens when shit gets real and you don't have a key?
Ragini MMS is basically a two person film and Ragini and Uday are stuck carrying the load. They do a pretty good job, (especially as it becomes a one person film) but like an arranged marriage, there was no love. A lot of the film is done with a handheld camera. I think that's a first for a Bollywood production and part of what drew me to the film. I was curious as to how it would be handled. A Bollywood Paranormal Activity type of film? Would there be song and dance? Would there be a love story? I didn't know what to expect and I was a little excited.
Minus the intro, there are no songs and dances and there aren't any romantic moments. There is, however, a lot of paranormal activity (wink). A lot of stuff happens in the background of the film but attention is called to it so that nothing is missed by the viewer. When they finally bring the shit to the forefront, the film gets much better...Then it becomes Blair Witch and totally drags.
I feel like it was an awesome effort but one that could have been done better. On the bright side, this is a welcome change from the typical Bollywood film and it's increased my interest in the genre.
Violence? Yes
Explosions? No
Nudity? No
