Jungle horror

Agyaat
Cast: Nitin Reddy, Priyanka Kothari, Gautam Rode, Howard Rosemeyer
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Rating: *

Agyaat is a singular attempt at presenting all that is agyaat (unknown) in the world of Ram Gopal Varma. For starters, it is also not known what possessed Varma to take his Jimmy Jib and Priyanka Kothari (earlier Nisha) to a forest to first record and then unleash this torture. The reason for Varma’s conceit is also agyaat.

What is known, however, is that Agyaat is shot
on location — in a forest, with a beehive, a monkey, two snakes and an unimpressed elephant. We also know that a film crew, led by director JJ who behaves like a retard, arrives in the forest to shoot a film. Sexy Asha (Priyanka Kothari) is the female lead and Sharman (Gautam Rode) the tantrum-throwing star. There is also assistant director Sujal (Nitin Reddy) who has the hots for Asha.

Camera conks and they all go camping. Oh, yes, there’s one forest guy Setu whose eyes bulge out every time he engages his vocal cords.
In the forest, at night, the agyaat arrives and starts picking its prey, presumably according to their annoying quotient, in descending order. Blood boils in puddles, bodies are thrown on trees or sucked underground. But the agyaat has fears too.

Asha and Sujal figure this and are the only
ones left, hugging and threatening a sequel.
Agyaat is a thriller inasmuch as you may worry and get into a tizzy about the wellbeing of the director and his cast and crew whose collective IQ would add up to a single-digit.
If by direction you mean making one character chew a pencil and another one dangle an unlit cigarette, then yes, this film has a director. If by screenplay you mean sending Priyanka Kothari in short skirts and padded bikini-tops on wild treks to sweat, heave and flash thighs, then yes, we must take this one to Sundance. But if by a film you mean a story and characters and some input of the brain, if only to entertain and thrill, then no, that’s completely agyaat here.