Subhash K Jha (BOMBAY TIMES; March 23, 2011)

Many filmmakers turning to the 3D technique in Bollywood lately. Among them Ram Gopal Varma (Warning), Vikram Bhatt (Haunted), Madhu Mantena (Magadheera), and Shirish Kunder (Joker). Vikram Bhatt drops a bomb when he claims he is the only filmmaker who has shot his film Haunted in the 3D format, “I’m the only filmmaker in Hindi cinema who’s shooting a film in 3D. My Haunted is the first 3D film in India since Shiva Ka Insaaf (1985) and Chota Chetan (1998). All the others are fly-by-night conversion works, who are shooting in the normal 2D format and then they’ll convert their films into the 3D format, which is doing great GREAT disservice to the 3D technology because the result is disappointing. If James Cameron’s Avatar looked so much more deep, layered and lifelike than the clumsy 3D effects in Clash Of The Titans it was because Titans resorted to the 2D-to-3D trick and it showed.” Bhatt says Cameron has filmmakers against taking the easy route to 3D. “I don’t know why Indian filmmakers are resorting to this gimmick. When you convert a 2D film into 3D, you are not only compromising with the technique you cannot even begin to get the multilayered feel of a real 3D film.” If Bhatt had to measure the difference between real 3D and converted 3D on a scale of 1-10, he’d rate real 3D at 10 and converted 3D at 1 or 2. Bhatt adds, “Doing a film in 3D is hugely complicated. Haunted took twice More >