Haunted 3D (2011)

Whats it about:
A real estate broker Rehan goes to a place called Glen Manor to finish a deal. He has 10 days to finish his work but he starts seeing and experiencing many spooky things. He later comes to know through a letter about what all happened in this place about 75 yrs back.
    Meera lives with her family in this place and she gets sexually molested by her piano teacher Mr. Iyer. Meera succeeds in killing Iyer before getting raped but Iyer comes back as a ghost and kills all the remaining ppl in the house and also rapes Meera every other night. Meera commits suicide because of this unbearable torture. And her soul continues to be tormented by Iyer's evil soul till date. Rehan decides to put an end to her suffering.
    In a 'time machine' moment Rehan traverses back in time to the point where Meera is still living happily just before her parents' departure out of station. All the events of the flashback happen in the same order again with Rehan also being one of the parties in these events. Rehan can't prevent Mr. Iyer getting killed. So, Mr. Iyer's ghost is still very much in the picture in the second half too.
   Rehan tells Meera and the housemaid Margaret the truth about his existence and he somehow succeeds in stopping Mr.Iyer repeating his atrocities through a combination of Islamic beliefs.
   In the end, Rehan returns back to the present moment after saving Meera and he again reads a letter this time telling about how Meera has lived a happy life. He sees a lot of photos proving Meera's happy life.

                                                               
Hits

• Technically brilliant. The VFX, cinematography and the locations add to the thrills and spills
• The 3d effects are decent. They give us the creeps at times
• The heroine Tia Bajpai looks very sexy and beautiful and she also wins our sympathies during her times of torment. She expresses the fear very well.
• The hero Mahakshay is ok. He proves his skills at dancing in one scene. But, he doesn't have much to do. 
• Arif Zakaria as Mr.Iyer is the biggest terror seen in Indian cinema in recent times. He looks devilish and the way his character has been sketched makes it a real scary experience. 
• Achint Kaur is another scary looking human and in the second half when her character Margaret gets possessed by Iyer's spirits and she starts flying around from tree to tree, it really is scary and thrilling. 
• The creativity of the story writers in telling a typically entertaining Indian ghost saga, needs to be lauded
• Some really intense scenes like the scene when Meera gets raped by Iyer's evil spirit, the scene when Iyer gets killed etc. are sure to send shock waves. 
• The BG score adds to the eerie effect.
• The songs are all montages and are good. 

Misses

• The 'time machine' moment in the film when just a tune played in the piano takes Rehan back in time, is highly illogical even for a fantasy film
• The movie is quite long. Though it is never boring. 

VERDICT

The best horror film seen in Indian cinema in a long time. Vikram Bhatt deserves all the appreciations and applause.