Ek Thi Daayan Movie Review

Ek Thi Daayan (Hindi)

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5.5/10
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5.0/10
Release Date:
April 19, 2013

Bobo is India's leading magician. But unknown to even his girlfriend Tamara, Bobo's life is falling apart. His constant hallucinations leave him with no option but to seek psychiatric help.

Going through regression hypnosis, a terrifying story about his childhood surfaces involving a sinister power called Daayan who has not only destroyed his family but also promised to return to haunt Bobo.

He chooses to ignore it and move on with his life. Just when his career and love life is at full throttle, enters the irresistible Lisa Dutt.

Bobo is convinced that she is the daayan. But is she, really? Or is he just losing his mind?

Bobo is India's leading magician. But unknown to even his girlfriend Tamara, Bobo's life is falling apart. His constant... Show More

Ek Thi Daayan is an odd beast – part purveyor of unintended schlock-laughs, part flat-out horror movie, and part Freudian mystery, hinging on buried childhood secrets that rise from deep, dark recesses. That it doesn’t work all that well isn’t perhaps a surprise

The Hindu

Ek Thi Daayan had the potential to be an A-grade horror film but it’s an opportunity lost

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Hindustan Times

It nicely builds up intrigue, but leaves you wanting more in the end

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IBN

Just about everything in the first half, with its well-calibrated chills, is just as it should be. The second half is unravel time, and you are then left grasping at thin air

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Indian Express

The film often resorts to too many conveniences and the back stories of the characters could have done with more meat

Times of India

Ek Thi Daayan is a different flavour for horror lovers. It takes the genre a step forward with differently-imagined creativity

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India Today

Ek Thi Daayan isn’t the scariest of horror films. It is, though, smartly crafted, highly original in its approach and a strikingly ambitious effort for the genre

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Rediff

Good horror films stay with you well after they’ve ended. Alas, the spooks of Ek Thi Daayan will have no such effect

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Mumbai Mirror

Witches are pathetic, simplistic creatures in this spook drama that begins grippingly but fizzles out soon

Mint

Kick-ass psychological thriller turns into embarrassing hodgepodge

Filmfare

The riveting parts of Ek This Daayan are far outnumbered by the limp moments

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NDTV

Ek Thi Daayan deserves full marks for its unblemished and watertight first half. The second however is a total waste

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nowrunning

Woven beautifully between the world of magic, occult and suspense, Ek Thi Daayan, makes for compulsive viewing, providing some spine-chilling thrills at short gaps

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Times of India

An imaginative and appealing supernatural thriller

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BollywoodHungama