An electrical storm of the same magnitude and nature as another that struck a quarter-century ago opens a line of communication between a schoolboy who died in 1996 and a woman who moves into the house where the former lived with his mother in 2021.

Dobaaraa, a well-acted, nimbly crafted time-loop thriller, is built around that enthralling premise.

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The Mindbender is a remake of a 2018 Spanish murder mystery directed by Anurag Kashyap and written by Nihit Bhave. The latter draws on a few key elements of his filmmaking style while limiting others to create a witty head-scratcher that thrives on a complex, if not particularly deep, interweaving of timelines and dimensions of existence. 

Dobaaraa is not always electrifying, but it is consistently entertaining and engaging. It combines the ramifications of a messed-up space-time continuum with the far simpler conventions of a crime thriller. Even when things aren’t going well, Anurag Kashyap gets many things right.

The director teases a completely new beast out of the narrative content drawn from Oriol Paulo’s Adriana Ugarte and Alvaro Morte starrer Mirage, using sure-handed methods and relying on a strong pivotal performance by Taapsee Pannu.

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In the last four years, this is the third Hindi remake of an Oriol Paulo film. Sujoy Ghosh remade The Invisible Guest (2016) as Badla (starring Pannu alongside Amitabh Bachchan), while Jeethu Joseph remade El Cuerpo (2012) as The Body.

Both Badla and The Body, both released in 2019, had foreign settings and attempted to recreate the atmosphere of the original films as closely as possible.

Dobaaraa, set in a Pune suburb, follows the Mirage plot in general but is far from a carbon copy. Kashyap’s lively version, informed with style, verve, and a distinct directorial imprimatur, pits humans against each other in perplexing mind games amid a terrifyingly disruptive thunderstorm.

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Dobaaraa is strong on atmosphere, which is aided significantly by Sylvester Fonseca’s cinematography. It relies on sustained intrigue rather than dread. It’s a clever remake that quickly draws the audience in and holds their attention. Its fluid juggling of time, space, and reality catches it off guard and fascinates it at the same time. 

Dobaaraa weaves its way into domains where questions outnumber answers and perceptions are repeatedly blurred as they are thrown into a spiral of perplexing contradictions as the story progresses.

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The plot revolves around an avoidable death in the mid-1990s and a fortuitous opportunity to change an individual’s destiny two and a half decades later. Dangerous lies, dark secrets, illicit liaisons, and shifting veracity emerge from the shadows as the story swivels on its mystifying axis. 

On a stormy night, a boy – an ardent Terminator fan who, in one scene, wears a T-shirt that says “I’ll be back” – videotapes himself. While he’s at it, he hears a commotion next door, sneaks inside, and discovers the wife of his obnoxious neighbor (Saswata Chatterjee) dead on the floor. The man is holding a bloody knife. The terrified boy dashes towards the street. Tragedy knocks.,dobaaraa ,dobaaraa showtimes ,dobaaraa trailer ,dobaaraa review ,dobaaraa near me ,dobaaraa budget ,dobaaraa ott ,dobaaraa release date ,dobaaraa movie release date ,taapsee pannu dobaara ,dobaaraa movie ,dobaaraa advance booking ,dobaaraa anurag kashyap ,dobaaraa anurag kashyap review ,dobaaraa anurag kashyap trailer ,dobara alvida ,dobara actors ,dobara actors name

The boy has returned, thanks to an old television set, a camcorder, and an incomplete video recording discovered in a storeroom. But is it possible to change his fate? The new owner of the house discovers a way to reach out to the boy and warn him of what is to come. The watch reads 2:12 AM, which is where the film’s title, Dobaaraa, comes from. 

Dobaaraa is built around an engrossing, matter-of-fact interplay of past and present. The female protagonist, a nurse who relocates to a new home with her husband and six-year-old daughter, becomes entangled in the perplexing whirligig. As certainties fade from her life and her own identity is questioned, she wrestles with alleged truths that may or may not be true.

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Taapsee Pannu’s effortless ease in the trippy film deserves unqualified applause. Her character is not only caught between two different points in time that are decades apart, but she is also abruptly transported into a dimension where what she has always known to be true is warped beyond recognition. She conveys the ensuing perplexity without missing a beat. 

In one reality, she is a mother of a girl and a medical nurse; in another, she is a renowned surgeon on the hunt for her missing daughter. She hits a lot of brick walls in the later timeline because no one knows who she is.

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Dobaaraa is centered on dysfunctional marriages, cheating husbands, and home-breaking women. While it explores human frailties in the face of fleshly temptations and the unstoppable force of nature, the film does not seek to answer big moral questions. 

However, with its skewing of realities and the effect it has on the mind of a woman who has ended up in a state she cannot fully comprehend, it adds up to an intriguing and fast-paced ride through a haze that hangs over the mind and takes its time to lift, similar to the ominous clouds in the sky.

Pavail Gulati, who plays a cop investigating the ‘disappearance’ of the protagonist’s daughter, and Rahul Bhat, who plays the tormented heroine’s shifty husband in one of the two realities she inhabits, both give excellent performances.

Also read: Laal Singh Chaddha: Is this remake faithful to the original Forrest Gump?

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Veteran actor Nassar makes an appearance as a veteran doctor whose presence is critical to the harried heroine’s attempts to solve the puzzle in which she finds herself. 

Dobaaraa is notable for not making major concessions to the audience by resorting to the overt explication of the phenomenon that precipitates the female protagonist’s predicament, even though parts of the film are rather easy to decipher.

The plot’s occasional obfuscations only serve to heighten the dramatic tension and enhance the film’s ability to catch the audience off guard. It does this frequently enough to keep us interested throughout.