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In Parwanoo, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, a teenage schoolgirl’s horribly mutilated body is found on a bench. Soon after, a girl in the same age group goes missing in neighbouring Kasauli. Two days later, her similarly brutalised remains turn up under a bridge. There’s a serial killer on the loose, declares newbie cop Arjan Sethi (Akshay Kumar); he should know, given that he had been working on a film about serial killers that never got made, before he joined the police. You wonder if ‘Cuttputlli’ (what’s with the spelling?), a remake of Tamil film ‘Ratsasan’, should have met with a similar fate. Because literally nothing about this thriller which lacks thrills, works the way it should. Giving us close-ups, without a proper build-up, of a bloody face, is a deliberate shocker. Who could be behind this cruel snuffing of a young life, the damage done while the victim was alive to maximise pain? Sample this: a school-teacher (Sujith Shankar) who preys upon his wards, does it in full view of the rest of the class. There’s no skulking in dark corners. The classroom becomes the site of the molestation, while school is on. Huh? What kind of an institution is this, where a teacher is left alone to his terrible devices? Why don’t the rest of the girls complain to the authorities? Which cat has got their tongue? As to the official investigation, it seems like no one in the bunch has heard of ‘MO’ (modus operandi) till our hero speaks about it. A series of bodies with the exact s...

Horror movies in Nepal are few and far between. But, at the end of 2021, Kollywood released a horror movie–Kathaputali: The Puppet– that sparked new hopes in Nepali movie lovers, with its But, the excitement drops tremendously in the first half itself. And, the rest is confusing as the movie tests your patience. Hopes disappointed Kathaputali reels you in with a ‘once upon a time’ format and uses an animated sequence to set a tone of an ongoing revolution in a kingdom, in its very first minute. Nepali movies using animation is not common, hence the first minute reinforces the hope you walk-in with that this movie would be different from many other Nepali movies that have failed to impress you. But, then, it shifts to a royal setting where a father and a son are discussing the enraging revolution. And, this is where your patience will be tested. Sitting through about a good 20-minute lengthy setup, all about the revolution and their opinions about the way forward is just painful. It is more so when that lengthy setup is not even used later in the horror storytelling. The revolution basically plays no role; Kathaputali could have just avoided the whole thing and made it an hour-long movie instead. Dhurba Koirala as the reigning king and Mahesh Shakya (Karma) as the prince share the screen for such a long time, but they seem uncomfortable and the dialogues are just flat. Karma’s abrupt shift in tone is just confusing. And, the royal setting and even the attires do not feel co...