The milieu in Chhorii looks more stylised and art-directed. Adding meat to the gangster-related stuff that compels the couple to run to a village only delays the film’s start.Ĭhhorii is more polished in nearly every department than Lapachhappi, whose simpler filmmaking intensified the scares. That way, Furia shows his cards prematurely. Sakshi’s exchanges with her husband Hemant (Saurabh Goyal) reveal not just her feminist politics but also the film’s themes quite early. The remake has a 15-minute prologue, the purpose of which is to introduce the heroine, Sakshi ( Nushrratt Bharuccha), as a girlboss, and flesh out the reason she finds herself in a village. Chhorii falters when he tries to overcook it. Unlike the similarly themed Hindi horror film Kaali Khuhi (2020), Lapachhapi successfully delivered scares and moral science lessons without one aspect overtaking the other.Ĭhhorii works when Furia is following the beats of Lapachhapi as closely as possible. Lapachhapi worked because of the performances, especially by Usha Naik, who played a weird old woman with an unhealthy interest in the heroine’s foetus, and Furia’s focused screenplay. Dangers abound round the clock, making Lapachhapi one of the rare Indian horror films that unfolds in a village during daytime. The film’s rural setting is most interesting: a house in the middle of a labyrinthine sugarcane plantation, a metaphor for the quagmire of regressive Indian traditions which the heroine has to fight. The story is about a pregnant urbanite, played by Pooja Sawant, trying to save her unborn child from creepy characters, real and supernatural. Chhorii, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is the remake of Furia’s own Marathi horror hit Lapachhapi (2017).