We would have forgotten and forgiven the lax pace, the hotchpotch screenplay and shoddy editing if Tia Bajpai was scary and/or sexy.
How Jaidev goes out saving his beloved forms the crux of this (non) story. The story (or the lack of it) revolves around, India’s best poet Jaidev Verma (Aftab Shivdasani) falling in love with a mysterious woman called Smriti (Tia Bajpai), who’s seemingly possessed by an evil spirit. So the less said about production and period details, the better.
Perhaps director Bhushan Patel didn’t want that. But that would be actually taking your subject seriously, right. Probably Bhatt and company forgot that there might be old British era houses in places like Dehradun and Mussoorie. That’s ingenuity for you alright - making pristine Sweden stand in for an Indian hill station. Or should we say Swedish horses as the film was shot in Sweden. Indians live in large villas and dress like British nobility and drive around in closed carriages drawn by gleaming English horses. The film is supposedly set in some hill station during the ‘20s. The film is so unintentionally funny that we suspect that the producer actually wanted to make a comedy. The result is a laugh-a-riot called 1920: Evil Returns. Maybe someone gave him the bright idea that he should bank on the name and make a franchise. It managed to earn decent money at the box-office. Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai and Vidya Malvadeĭirector Vikram Bhatt made an okay-ish horror film called 1920 in 2008.
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