Chhorii Horror Movie

[Eboni Kleifgen]

Inthe opening scene, a pregnant woman is chased in a sugarcane field and forced to cut her own womb. The scene cuts to the cityscape, where a woman, Sakshi, works in an NGO and lives with her husband Hemant. They both abscond to their driver's village to hide for some days after Hemant is beaten and threatened by some people for not returning a loan he had borrowed for a business plan.

They reach the village through a sugarcane field and meet the driver's wife Devi, a very orthodox woman. Hemant leaves to find a solution to their financial problems. Sakshi gradually finds a bond with Devi. She meets Rani, Rajbir's (Devi's eldest son) wife, the one who was chased in the first scene. Devi explains that Rani lost her child before the birth and in order to save her, her womb was cut.

Sakshi is teased by three children and grows curious about them. Devi warns her to stay away from them but Sakshi doesn't listen. Devi, frustrated that Sakshi is not listening, threatens her. Things sour between her and Sakshi after this. A few days later, Hemant returns and Sakshi asks him to take her somewhere else in a fit of panic. That night, as they are leaving, the couple is attacked by Devi and a ritual is performed on Sakshi by devi and her husband. Devi takes her back to her room and ties her to the bed.

Devi tells her that she must stay there alone for next three days in order to get rid of Sunaini, Devi's sister-in-law and a ghost, who once was pregnant. She killed Devi's three little boys, her own husband, and then herself by cutting her womb when she was pregnant. Sunaini cursed Devi's family, ensuring they cannot continue their lineage. Devi tells Sakshi that all the visions she will see in the next three days will be illusions. Sakshi tries to escape the house but in vain.

It is revealed that Sunaini was being asked by her in-laws to kill her fetus because of it being a female child. When she refused and tried to escape, she accidentally killed her own husband. Devi's family, thinking Sunaini killed her husband, burned her alive. In the process, she gave birth to her baby but her baby was thrown in the well to fulfill a ritual that guarantees a good harvest. Sunaini, in her burned state, jumps into the well to save her daughter. Devi's three boys, who loved Sunaini, jumped in after her to save them, resulting in all of them dying and becoming ghosts.

Sakshi experiences the ordeal Sunaini went through in a series of harrowing experiences. In the final moments, before being made to self-harm her baby by Sunaini, she makes an oath to tell everyone of the ordeal that Sunaini went through if the ghost lets her go instead of repeating the same torment on the new wives. Sakshi survives the three days and in the morning when Devi, the driver and Hemant come, she refuses to leave without revealing the story.

Hemant is revealed to be Rajbir, who killed his previous two wives because he was afraid they would tell people about the murders in the village. He spared Rani because she swore to stay silent. As Rajbir goes to attack Sakshi from behind, Rani kills him, Devi and Kajla using a cleaver. Sakshi walks away from the village house, through the sugarcane field in the direction given by the three ghost children. She is joined by Rani.

It generally received negative reviews from critics and mixed reviews from audiences, praising the performance of Nusrat Bharucha but criticising the horror scenes. However, Rohan Naahar of The Indian Express wrote that though "the film is a surprisingly well-made horror picture that actually respects the genre, but loses its way so tragically in its final moments" and turn it "into a message movie". Concluding the review, Rohan asks a question from director, "Does Furia [(director)] think that potential baby-killers are watching his film? Does he expect Chhorii to change their mind about killing babies?"[8]

Prime Video has today unveiled the official teaser for its upcoming original horror movie, CHHORII, which is set to premiere globally on the 26th of November and promises to be a chilling paranormal thriller for horror fans around the world.

The teaser traces the journey of Sakshi (played by Nushrratt Bharuccha) and her partner as they are forced to flee their city home and seek shelter in a house within a haunted sugarcane field. Soon, the couple realise that the shelter they once sought for refuge from danger is in fact the very location for a seriously sinister paranormal threat. The housewife, eight months pregnant, must now fight to save her unborn baby from the spirits out to snatch her away.

Directed by Vishal Furia and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishnan Kumar, Vikram Malhotra, Jack Davis, and Shikhaa Sharma, CHHORII is a remake of the Marathi film Lapachhapi and features Nushrratt Bharuccha in the lead role, alongside Mita Vashisht, Rajesh Jais, Saurabh Goyal, and Yaanea Bharadwaj.

Movie's story told, in part, to raise awareness of the epidemic in India of female infanticide due to traditional superstitions of patrilineal descent and the escalation of violence against women on a global scale.

Indian movie highlights the contrast between traditional and modern roles of women in society and the problems that have emerged in a patriarchal society in which women are expected to be submissive and believed to be inferior to men.

Horror imagery and background music throughout. Woman shown set on fire and killed. Her undead body appears as a charred and shrieking ghost. Dead bodies of kids. Baby shown being dropped into a well. Woman beaten with a rod by her husband. Man stabbed to death; blood. Sound effects of woman stabbing her womb. Man punched, kicked, and beaten by goons until bruised and bloody. Woman shown tied up and forced to experience disturbing hallucinations.

Parents need to know that Chhorii is a 2021 Indian horror movie in which a pregnant woman must save herself and her unborn child from traditional beliefs and mysterious forces. Expect horror movie imagery and scary music throughout. Some disturbing scenes include a woman being set on fire, a baby being dropped into a well, the dead bodies of kids, and women stabbing their wombs with a knife (heard but not shown). A woman is shown being beaten with a rod by her husband. A man falls on a knife and dies; some blood. Man beaten until bloodied and bruised by henchmen. Man beaten with a rod and knocked out. Woman shown tied up and forced to experience disturbing hallucinations. Characters smoke from hookah pipes -- these scenes include subtitles that warn the viewer of the health hazards of smoking. Overall, the movie is trying to make a comment on the epidemic of female infanticide as a result of traditional superstitions concerning patrilineal descent in India, and on a more global scale, the increase in violence against women in recent years. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.

In CHHORII, Sakshi (Nushrratt Bharuccha) is in her eighth month of pregnancy while working as a teacher in an NGO. One night, she awakens to find her husband Hemant Saurabh Goyal) being beaten up in their living room by goons who tell him that he has 24 hours to pay back the money he borrowed to start a new business. Unable to come up with the money in time, Hemant and Sakshi decide to go into hiding until he can figure out a way to pay back the money. Their driver, Kajla, offers to take them to his village, 300 kilometers away, hidden in sugarcane fields. They arrive, and Saskshi meets Kajla's wife Devi, an orthodox and superstitious woman who believes in traditional beliefs concerning the role of women, beliefs that the modern and urban Sakshi disagrees with. Even so, Sakshi bonds with Devi, but while Hemant has returned to the city to make things right, Sakshi begins seeing three kids who beckon her to play with them. Devi orders Sakshi to ignore them at all costs. Sakshi also encounters Rani, the ex-wife of Devi's oldest son, who lost her child during childbirth and no longer talks even as she's verbally berated and abused by Devi. As the three kids continue to appear and beckon Saskshi to play with them, she begins to learn the horrible truth about what really happened with the wives and kids of Devi's oldest son, and it's something far more sinister than the witchcraft that Devi claims is the reason behind it all. Sakshi must find a way to learn what's really going on in this mysterious village and save herself and her unborn child.

This is a horror movie with a thoughtful and timely message, but also one that gets lost in cliches and excess. Chhorii has a unique third act filled with hallucinations and disturbing flashbacks and time jumps that's enjoyable in and of itself before everything is revealed in the end, but the journey to get to that point is filled with too-convenient plot points and an overreliance on horror elements that have been cliched for at least 20 years. Less than 30 minutes into it, the overdependence on "foreboding" background music filled with clanks and shrieks, paired with exaggerated sounds like water dripping, grows tiresome. It also clocks in at two hours and ten minutes, and there are enough redundant scenes to make the case that this could be at least 30 minutes shorter.

Somewhere in all of the jump scares, hallucinations, and shrieky background music is a message on female infanticide and violence against women. While this is all part of the "big reveal" at movie's end, it's obvious to anyone paying attention that this is the message the movie is trying to convey through this story. That message does come through, even with the PSA at the end concerning the epidemic of female infanticide in traditional and superstitious cultures and even if the story itself ends up being a little too on the nose no matter how chaotic it gets. The ambition to convey a message like this in a genre that often sticks to the basic "gore for gore's sake" formula of storytelling is admirable, but the cliches and the excess, more often than not, clouds rather than amplifies this message

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