Silence of the lambs

This movie is a psychological thriller, and has some brilliant performances by Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins the two main characters. The story is classy, so is the screenplay, Hannibal Lecter the character played by Hopkins is a serial killer and a cannibal, and he appears so in his chilling manner of talking. Jodie Foster the young trainee FBI agent who interviews him to get help in finding another serial killer plays the part amazingly well. The serial killer that they are trying to find is secondary and is not attached much importance as a character, save that he is a maniac who is trying to fashion a woman suit made of human skin.

The Hindi version is about as scary as someone screaming in your face. Agreed that its indianized and all that but then they could have made up another story altogether with the same loud characters. Firstly my favorite character of Hannibal Lecter (a serial killer-cannibal) is changed to a an emotional man wrongly put in prison, who has the power of an underworld don and also happens to be of all things, A professor. Even cannibals cant digest this kind of a character.

The character of Jodie Foster is played by Preity Zinta who obviously most resembles Jodie Foster in Bollywood, otherwise any champa, chameli or tara could have played the role of acting terrified/appearing overactingly concerned. The loudest character and the most entertaining is the character of the serial killer they are trying to find - Lajja shankar Pandey, a psychopath who kidnaps little children for sacrifice(apparently this makes him more horrific), because he believes that this act will make him immortal(makes him seem more psycho), it is this character that holds the story together, and creates tension in the storyline, same as the horrible ghost/zombie in a horror flick.

Mr. Bhatt has failed to realise that serial killers aren't so obviously loud/street mad, most times they are sober and often charming and manipulative, and when they have a purpose (eg.human sacrifice), they will not kidnap a ministers daughter which will get the entire police department after them thus hampering their activities. A professional like Reet Oberoi is trained to cunningly manipulate an emotional man like Akshay Kumar's character, and Akshay Kumars character ... no don't get me started on that one ...

The film is as moderately entertaining as a horror movie, especially the part where Lajja Shankar Pandey disguises himself as a street eunuch to evade his pursuers. This movie was a hit and you can watch it if you are into Indian films. Avoid it if not, but don't miss the original.