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Terror
in the Soul Good performances but gore much of the way. By Madhu Jain Movie: Sangharsh
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Miracles do
happen. Akshay Kumar can act. It's quite a performance the actor turns in as a desi-fied,
melodramatic version of the chilling Antony Hopkins character in Silence of the Lambs.
Normally, his emoting abilities are restricted to his rippling muscles. Zinta brings
intelligence to her role of a CBI inspector on the trail of serial child killer in this
psycho-thriller. But the performance which remains searingly etched on the mind is
Ashutosh Rana's. If unfathomable evil had to have a face, it's his in this film. But the
film itself tends to go over the top. You can have terror without bucketfuls of blood.
Loosely an adaptation of Silence of the Lambs, Sangharsh detours the theme of cannibalism
by making the psychopath killer a Kali worshipper who sacrifices children. Cannibalism's
not been dropped entirely though: Rana does bite off large chunks of flesh.