Anamika

Banner: Bhanwar Lal Sharma Production
Producer: Bhanwar Lal Sharma
Director: Anant Mahadevan
Star Cast :Dino Morea , Minissha Lamba, Koena Mitra, Aarti Chhabria, Achint Kaur, Gulshan Grover, Prithvi Zutshi, Vishwajeet Pradhan
Music Director: Anu Malik
Cinematography: Pushan Kriplani
Choreography: Piyush Panchal
Action: Jai Singh
Art: Gayatri Marwah
Editor: Sanjib Datta
Screenplay: Anand Vardhan
Sound: Navin Shah
Story Writer: Anant Mahadevan, Anand Vardhan

The movie “Anamika” is a suspense thriller that has unwanted ingredients of horror. The script of the movie has been taken from story book Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and has been made into Indian scenario. Being the movie based on a long script (a book ) it gets tiring in the second half and it can clearly made out that the director Anant Mahadevan, himself found it complex to depict the story with a decent conclusion. The movie catches attention but suspense gets identified in second hour and movie couldn’t engage audience further to the screens.

The story of the movie is about the rich businessman Vikram Aditya Sisodia who goes to Mumbai and meets the escort Jia Rao while trying to make a proposal of converting his palace into a resort. He gets attracted to Jia and marries her but before the marriage he reveals the truth about his initial marriage and informs Jia that his first wife died under unfortunate conditions. Jia reaches the palace owned by Vikram Aditya Sisodia that is the Lake Palace of Gajner. He is surprised to see the huge palace and also to see the beautiful socialite dead wife’s photographs of Vikram.

At the palace Malini, the governess of Gajner has been helping Vikram to convert the palace into a resort. Malini talks to Jia and tells about how beautiful Anamika was and Jia finds too many places in palace that have the imprints of Alphabet A .Jia starts sensing Anamika’s spirit and she gets so impressed by Anamika that she tries to transform herself into Anamika though Vikram does not like her to look like Anamika.

One day the brother-in-law of Vikram who is also a state cop accuses Vikram of having a hand in killing Anamika. Jia gets confused over the incidents and further revelation makes her feel more puzzled. Jia’s only friend in the palace is Malini with whom she shares her dilemma.

Then one day appears the boy friend of Anamika Sanjay and a sandstorm opens up the hidden secret of the palace. The dead body of Anamika comes out from the sand. The police re - opens the case and Vikram is believed to be the killer. The story after that is about how Anamika gets killed is revealed and about who is the person behind the plots against the Sisodia family?

The Anu Malik songs and Aadesh Srivastava’s background make initial hour horror effective whereas the story of the movie can be predicted after the first half itself. The revealing of the secrets have been done too fast.

The performance of Dino Moreo has improved from his last movies, though his standstill expressions make him look confused. Minissha Lamba and Koena Mitra are good in performance.

Though a popular star cast is not present in the movie, the movie will attract audience for its suspense, horror and script and it will turn out to be average in collections .Currently no blockbuster is dominating the theatres and the vacation season is on, so the movie will be benefited.

Rating: 6/10