Aks

Aks (2001) was a super natural thriller directed Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. This movie was a a failure at the Box Office but received well by the critics. Amitabh Bachchan has produced this movie under his own banner Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Pvt Ltd.

Raghavan (Manoj Bajpai) is a ruthless killer, follows Indian minister to kill him for a floppy which containing valuable information. Manu Verma (Amitabh Bachchan)The police officer who is leading the security of the minister, finally catches Raghavan. Raghavan is hanged by the police according to the court orders.

Then the game starts, police men notice the murders in the similar manner how Raghavan kills. Who is the man behind these murders becomes a puzzle to police department. Finally they finds that Manu Verma is killing all of them. Actually the spirit of Raghavan which is in Manu Verma 's body is the cause for all this murders.

Renzil D'Silva who has narrated script to Aamir Khan's Rang De Basanti was the writer to this movie also.

Agyaat 2

Agyaat was a miserable flop at Box Office. Nitin Kumar Reddy and Nisha Kothari were paired opposite each other in that movie. Before release of that movie only Ram Gopal Varma has announced the sequel to it. Now he is ready to start the movie shooting.

According to the Bollywood circles information, Vivek Oberoi will play the lead role in Agyaat 2. With un ending climax Ram Gopal Varma disappointed every one in Agyaat. Till that movie went properly and succeed to scare the audience.

Present he is busy with Amitabh Bachchan's Rann and Phoonk 2. May be after completing those two movies he starts this horror movie. In recent interview he has said that he will release Agyaat 2 by 2010 ending. First part is copy for a Hollywood movie Predator, lets wait and see this time which movie will take new shape.

Rudraksh

Rudraksh was a super natural thriller starring Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty and Bipasha basu in lead roles. Story is linked to great epic Ramayana. Mani Shankar has directed this fantasy film.



Dr Gayatri (Bipasha Basu) believes magical and healing powers and spiritual possession. She starts dwelling on these subjects. To gather more information, she comes to India with her team from USA. She meets Varun (Sanjay Dutt) who has some special powers. She starts research on him.

Varun experiences some black powers while Gayatri doing experiments. He comes to know that, all the powers he has is coming from a Rudhrash. He starts searching for Rudhraksh. He wanders in many places like Himalayas and deep forests of Sri Lanka to catch that power. What is the power inside the Rudhraksh is the remaining story.


Isha Koppikar also played an important role. Director failed to handle this subject. Amitabh Bachchan gave voice over to this movie. Negar Khan has appeared in a dance sequence.

Paheli

Shah Rukh Khan featured as a ghost in Paheli. Most of the movie revolves around a ghost but instead of scaring scenes director took a love story between that ghost and a married girl. Shah Rukh's wife Gauri Khan produced this movie on their Red Chillies Entertainment. Amol Parekar was the director for this movie.




A jealous girl Lachchachi (Rani Mukherji) marries a rich person Bhanwarlal (Anupam Kher)'s son Kishen (Shah Rukh Khan). He dreams that she will be happy for the rest of life.


But her husband leaves her and their home on a business trip for five years. After he leaves the home a ghost enters into that house with Kishen's shape and voice. He reveals about his true identity after some days. But Lachachi accepts the ghost because of it's love.




Real Kishen returns back before the five years. He is shocked after knowing that his wife is pregnant because of a ghost. He consults shepherd (Amitabh Bachchan). Shepherd imprisons the ghost. But that ghost escapes from the bottle and occupies Kishen's body. He spends a happy life with Lachachi.




Juhi Chawla and Sunil Shetty also featured in this movie for some scenes. It was screened at the Zimbabwe International film festival, Harare. And also screened in Sundance Film festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival. Naseeruddin Shah gave voice over for this film. M.M Kreem aka M.M. Keeravani gave music. Beautiful locations in Rajasthan like Jaipur and Jaisalmeer gave different look and feel.

Boothnath

Vivek Sharma after working in many film departments, made his debut as a director with Boothnath.


Amitabh for the first time played a ghost character. Unlike other ghost movies director made this film in different way. The relation between a ghost and a child is the original story line director wrote a tight screenplay for this line.


Aditya Sharma (Shah Rukh Khan) a successful engineer shifts from Mumbai to Goa with his wife Anjali (Juhi Chawla) and school going son Aman (Aman Siddique). They stay in a bungalow. They don't know any thing about the bungalow.


bungalow owner Kailashnath (Amitabh Bachchan) who died years back doesn't like people staying in that bungalow. He plans to scare the family members. And starts his plan with Aman.


But Aman thinks he is an angel. Khailash Naath likes Aman's innocence and starts a friendship. Every day he explains to his friends and teachers about Boothnath aka ghost Khailash Naath.


Principal of the school Irani (Sathish Shah) complains to Anjali about Aman's strange behavior. Anjali finds out about Bhoothnath and forces her husband to leave the bungalow. Boothnath now is not ready to agree to this as he wants Aman friendship.


Amitabh as Boothnath did a great job especially in the funny scenes. Director Vivek Sharma impressed the audience by touching on a new concept.


Shah Rukh Khan played an almost guest role and Juhi Chawla is also good. Aman is the real hero of this film. Vishnu Roy caught some beautiful Goa locations onto his camera. Music from Saleem Merchant, Suleman Merchant, Vishal and Shekar is okay.