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Muni
Cast: Lawrence Raghavendra, Rajkiran, Vethika
Direction: Lawrence Raghavendra
Music: Bharadwaj
Production: Saran (Gemini Production) |

Muni is a story that revolves around Lawrence. The only son to his parents, he is brought up in an overprotective manner and grows up hearing lots of stories about spirits, ghouls, banshees, draculas and ghosts of all other types. As a result he ends up as a coward who is afraid to venture out of home after dark. Lawrence and his family have to shift their residence.
The new house has something eerie about it, Lawrence and his family are not the only ones living in the house; there is someone else- enter Raj Kiran. You don’t get to see Raj Kiran, but only a mutilated half burnt corpse which takes a special liking to Lawrence and enters his body. Some of the scenes involving the half burnt form are good enough to send a chill down the spine of even people with a rock solid heart.
The first half comes to an end after keeping you riveted to your seats for over an hour. It casts a spell, the ghost does not get off your mind, the first half is ‘Thrill a minute.Then the second half commences, there is a let down of sorts here. Even though the first half scares the wits out of you, it does not tire you. You are asking for more excitement in the second half. But then the flash back of Raj Kiran, the person assumes prominence on screen. This was one part that should have been done in a very crisp manner. But what we get is a rather extended sequence with a generous sprinkling of comedy. Not that the comedy is boring, it is enjoyable; but we are just not in the mood for it. The comedy scenes involving Raj Kiran have a negative effect on the scary image that had been built around the ghost in the first half and when narration returns to real time you don’t feel as intimidated by the spirit as before.
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