Everyone has done well in Phoonk 2: Milind
Yet another debutant director gets ready for the release of his big screen dream today. Milind Gadagkar, a 30-something young man, who had written Phoonk, is having some nervous moments as his debut directorial effort plays on screens starting today. Though the first in the series was directed by Ram Gopal Varma, when Milind came with the idea of Phoonk 2, he was given a free hand to also direct it. Milind put things together entirely by wrapping up the principal shooting in a record time (37 days) by bringing the original cast (Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ashwini Kalsekar, Ahsaas Channa) together.
You
have
repeated
the
original
actors
in
the
sequel
to
Phoonk.
Didn't
it
get
monotonous
for
the
actors
to
recreate
the
same
emotions
all
over
again?
No,
not
at
all.
On
the
contrary,
one
thing
which
is
really
going
to
stand
out
in
Phoonk
2
is
performances.
For
films
belonging
to
horror
genre,
performances
are
extremely
important.
People
think
ki
chalo
bhoot
aayega
aur
daraega
isliye
baaki
actors
ke
liye
itna
mushkil
nahi
hai.
However,
to
get
the
overall
fear
effect
in
place,
it
is
most
important
that
everyone
performs
very
well.
Otherwise
the
film
would
fall
flat.
The
right
emotions
have
to
come
out
and
that's
something
which
I
have
been
able
to
achieve.
For
example,
in
Bhoot,
if
Urmila
wouldn"t
have
performed
then
the
film
wouldn't
have
worked.
Similarly
in
Phoonk
2
as
well,
everyone
from
Sudeep,
Amruta
to
Ehsaas
have
done
really
well.
Even
though
Amruta
hasn't
done
too
many
films
after
Phoonk,
you
still
trusted
her
to
deliver
goods?
Amruta
has
impressed
me
like
anything
as
she
has
carried
her
character
graph
brilliantly.
Sudeep
is
a
kind
of
person
to
whom
you
don't
have
to
give
much
brief.
At
her
age,
Ehsaas
has
delivered
the
kind
of
performance
which
is
just
superb.
She
has
far
exceeded
her
performance
in
Phoonk.
In
fact
an
additional
character
of
Sudeep's
sister,
which
is
played
by
Neeru,
has
been
added.
Talking
about
Neeru,
last
week
she
was
one
of
the
leading
ladies
of
Vivek
Oberoi
in
Prince
and
this
week
she
is
playing
the
role
of
a
sister
of
the
male
protagonist.
Isn't
that
a
step
down
for
her?
I
don't
think
it
works
that
way.
When
the
audience
sees
a
film,
they
see
it
in
the
context
of
the
story
being
told.
They
start
looking
at
characters
and
not
actors.
I
too
have
extracted
performances
as
demanded
from
the
character.
I
didn't
think
whether
Neeru
should
be
looked
as
a
leading
lady
or
a
sister.