Alone Trailer Is Out! Is It Another Old Dish Served In A Fancy Plate?

Bengali bombshell Bipasha Basu and the hunk of Indian television Karan Singh Grover have come together in a horror movie called Alone. This movie marks the Bollywood debut of Grover and is another one of the many supernatural movies that Bipasha has done in her career.

Directed by Bhushan Patel, who has given supernatural hits like 1920: Evil Returns and Ragini MMS 2, the movie is an ambitious project because of the popularity of Grover and the expertise with which Basu handles such roles.

The trailer of the movie was launched yesterday, and gives a clear glimpse into the plot of the movie, with conjoined twins, flashy six-pack abs, steamy bedroom scenes and heavy prosthetics makeup.

The trailer has had almost 90,000 views till now, and is getting popularity on the social media, more so because the leading man Karan Singh Grover had, perhaps strategically, announced the end of his marriage just yesterday and is trending on social media platforms for this.

Another reason for which the movie is gaining the interest of viewers is the intimacy between the leading pair, which is also touted to be the reason of his split with wife Jennifer Winget, whom he had married after his first marriage with actress Shraddha Nigam ended because of infidelity claims.

However, in this article we will not talk about the personal lives of the actors but about the movie. This movie seems to be an out and out copy of a Thai horror movie, also called Alone.

The Thai movie, released in 2007, starred Marsha Wattanapanich and Vittaya Wasukraipaisan and was directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom. The movie was a huge hit in Thailand, grossing $2,040,003 in Thailand and $9,365,071 worldwide.

Both movies talk about a pair of twin sisters who were conjoined by birth and had to be separated because of one’s death; the surviving sister gets haunted by the ghost of the dead one.

Incidentally, this is not the first time that the Thai movie has inspired an Indian film maker. The 2012 Kannada movie Chaarulatha was also an exact copy of Alone, and starred Priyamani and Skanda. The movie failed to leave a mark at the box office, but made Priyamani won the Best Actress award at the 2^nd South Indian International Movie Awards.

With the big budget movie releasing in January 2015, what remains to be seen is whether the director has used some creativity of his own, or it’s just an old dish served in a new and fancy plate.

You can watch the trailer here: