The film was propped up by fabulous camerawork and haunting music by Salil Chaudhary. Post Musafir, there has never been an episodic Hindi film until Darna Mana Hai, which marks the directorial debut of Prawaal Raman. Formerly an assistant to Varma, Raman approached the prolific filmmaker with his script involving six stories with one common ending. Varma was game.
From Vijay Bhaskar Rao in Tujhe Meri Kasam to Anurag Basu in Saaya, Raman is the latest in the long line of debutant directors this year. But, except Amit Saxena who directed the sizzling Jism, all of them have failed to make any impact.
Will Raman break the jinx? Especially when his film dares to be strikingly different in mainstream Hindi cinema?
Darna Mana Hai is neither a horror nor a supernatural thriller. It is neither a conventional drama nor an unconventional satire. Like Musafir, it creates a genre of its own by casting stars and using them in individual episodes.
The stars too aren't their usual selves in such films. Suchitra Sen in Musafir was a far cry from her regular image. Likewise, Shilpa Shetty in Darna Mana Hai is a scream. Other stars like Vivek Oberoi, Saif Ali Khan and Nana Patekar shed their starry plumes to get into the thick of their roles
While a nervous Raman waits for the verdict on his film, releasing July 25, new wave cinema appears all set to hit the celluloid.