Rating:
1/2
Plot:
Ankita and Sidhharth are on a vacation in London when they arrive at a mysterious Hotel Victoria. When Ankita meddles in the affairs of the hotel’s creepy owner Adhiraj, mystery starts to unravel.
Review:
‘Victoria-Ek Rahasya’ is an outdated horror thriller mystery which tries too hard to be scary and still can’t. Very lazy writing and sluggish direction does not add to the mystery at all.
The film starts with Ankita (Sonalee Kulkarni) and her husband Sidhhart (Aashay Kulkarni) arriving at a mysterious and mostly empty Hotel Victoria. The huge castle with long and dark corridors scare Ankita at the very start but Sidhhart in lieu of staying there free of cost convinces her.
Then enters the mysterious owner of the Hotel, Adhiraj (Pushkar Jog), who is mourning his wife’s accidental death. Like all the hotels in horror films you have watched, this one too has a few rooms not allowed for customers. But Ankita, in order to get to know more about Renuka (Adhiraj’s wife), enters one of them. And then begins a race between Adhiraj and Ankita in hiding and revealing the mystery.
Horror films need much more than the cliche elements like screams, creaking doors, chairs moving and other elements like these. The story in itself is weak but the dialogues and execution make it worse. The only saving grace of the film is Pushkar Jog and Sonalee Kulkarni’s performance. The background music is okayish as well. With an attempt to put forward a subtle nod towards mental health awareness, the film kind of saves itself. The dubbing is awful, it feels like a south movie dubbed in marathi.
‘Victoria’ offers nothing new in an outdated horror story with the use of the same old horror elements. Watch it if you get scared easily, otherwise it is passable.
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