Kali Ghata is one of those Hindi films you wouldn't be able to distinguish from countless other films of the sort. It's a very commercial, very melodramatic sort of masala with all the ingredients you could possibly associate with the genre: many songs, cheesy dialogue, caricatures for characters, poor action, and actors who are made to playact like high schoolers preparing a year-end school play. It even has twins and some so-called mystery drama, but it drags on for so long without really keeping the viewers intrigued. In the end, there's a twist and it's really quite pointless. Rekha is a great beauty, and she seems to enjoy playing the two twin sisters with some mild nuanced changes in tone and expression. At the end of the day, however, she is totally let down by the script and the numerous times she needs to look into the middle distant space while reading out her poor, stagy dialogue. Same goes for Shashi Kapoor. The two acted in some other great films like Baseraa a year later. You better watch the latter.
Review of Kali Ghata
Kali Ghata
(1980)
A very poor film, boring and predictable despite the twist in the end
5 October 2023