404: Error Not Found (2011)

You won't be disappointed!

Great Film overall

Good start, but then it gets ruined

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

I wasn't even aware that this movie is released and saw it two years after it was released. I was very excited to watch this movie after reading some good reviews. The start of the movie looked promising. The concept is very fresh. The acting of the new faces was also good. But the pace of the movie is very slow. Most of the times you get bored and feel like leaving it. The twist at the end was good. But overall the movie looked like an experiment from its makers. The horror scenes in the movie were not really horror.But its OK if they did not want to make a horror movie. The Presmises of college is too dull it looks like only a few students are studying there and it doesn't even a college. Overall the movie was a very fresh concept in Indian cinema but Its not very entertaining.

First of all , let me start by saying that I have seen many good to epic movies , but never cared to review them. But only this film inspired me to write my first review.The whole plot of the movie and the acting of actors is what made me watch the whole movie. The story of the film is really intriguing. I just feel pity for the director that this film will remain little known to the movie lovers.The movie starts with the protagonist Abhimanyu starting his higher education in a medical college, coming to the hostel. He comes to know of the creepy room 404 where one student(Gaurav) committed suicide. And then some seniors ragging him. Only Abhimanyu is resistant to ragging and he also stays in the room 404(which has been opened after 3 years).The seniors tells him that the boy's(Gaurav) ghost haunts in that room. Then the main story starts when Abhimanyu starts seeing Gaurav, and his teacher tells him that its only in his mind and not real. Is it really in his mind or is it the ghost of Gaurav? Decent horror flick. I will give it a 8/10 for such brave attempt.

Had never heard of this movie (but no apologies, very few actually have), why I went on to watch whole of it was that it began with first year students being ragged in what turns out soon to be a medical college, reminding of my first year(I am a medical student too). But for a few scenes the initial part of this ragging stuff was completely life-like. The portrayal of a student's hostel in India is excellent where the new comers are initially troubled and mocked before they get frank with their seniors who in turn get friendly. What follows, though not a very day-to-day experience, is very much sensible and realistic. And that's what makes me like this movie -"sense and realism"- something lacking in well more than 90 percent of its contemporaries- bollywood and Hollywood alike. This movie is a very smooth depiction of how situations can throw our mind in directions we could never imagine. And in the circumstances of abhimanyu, hallucinations can never be far. Nothing in the movie has been over-done. The acting and directions have been superb. And above all the story is smooth with some sharp twists at the end, and that is sure to make watching this movie a memorable experience. 'Taare zameen par' remains my all time favourite and 'the shawshank redemption' and 'pursuit of happiness' from overseas come next but after that I like this movie the most, it's a pity that the movie remained so unnoticed, no one seems to believe that it is a must watch. So few views for a movie like this is perhaps a result of lack of strong promotion. Surely this movie deserved a platform similar to 'taare zameen par'. Some stupid ones like 'bodyguard' can create records at box-office, but this one has to search for worthwhile viewers just because of the promotions and starring moulding our expectations- abhimanyu was right "it's all in the mind".

It may seem to be a very good movie, kudos to the director for trying to dream big, but please don't make a copy (however unrelated as you may say it is) to English movies. The concept of story telling is a basic skill without any limits kept but only your imagination. However, the director, the screenplay writer and other story writers are stunted in their imaginations as they have resorted to take up a good horror movie like 1408 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450385/ and then just making minimal changes (so as to avoid a copyright issue) and presenting it to the public. Do things with innovation then even the old horror movies with ghost bungalows, and witches and omens and possessed souls will seem better.So, even though this may seem to be a good movie to lot of people, the inspiration with which it was made (and never credited) makes me put this at 1/10.