1920

1920 is a Bollywood movie directed by Vikram Bhatt. After failing to impress the audience with the movies like Speed, Red he gave good come back with this film.

It is a horror movie but set in the year 1920. The major part of the movie is shot in a big palace set. According to the period mentioned in the movie the look was created. This look specially attracted the crowd to theaters.

The movie starts in a village called Palampur which is located in Himachal Pradesh. One architect enters into a haveli in Palampur. His work is to destroy that building and construct a beautiful hotel in that place.

Some mysterious forces kills him. Another architect called Arjun Singh (Rajneesh Duggal) commits for that work and enters into the building with his lover Lisa (Adah Sharma). They both hear some starnge sounds.


One day when Arjun is not there in the building the forces start attacking on Lisa. She consults a priest. The priest also dies in the fight with that evil. That soul enters into Lisa's body.

Actually that soul belongs to a soldier who was hanged in that building. Arjun tries to protect Lisa from that evil. But Lisa beats him hard because she is possessed by the soul. He hugs her hard and starts reading Hanuman Chalisa. The devil leaves Lisa's body.

After Raaz, Vikram Bhatt once again successfully handled this horror film. Adnan Sami gave suitable music to this film. Cameraman Pravin Bhatt is the real hero for this film.

Veerana

We saw many horror movies recently like Raaz, Raat, Bhoot and 1920. All these movies are concentrating on scaring people than story. At the end of the movie it shows silly reasons for all the fear. Unlike the above mentioned movies Veerana movie had a good story and was released in 1988.


The story starts with a witch who is an expert in black magic and has some magical powers. Takur is a responsible person of that area who hangs this witch in public for people's sake. The witch followers takes her dead body to a safe place and manages to protect her soul.


A priest works hard and enters this soul into Takur's daughter's body. She stays with her uncle and aunt. Years passes and this girl turns into beautiful young woman. Her cousin studies in Bombay and returns back to see her father. After this many murders take place in that area. All of them are because of Takur's daughter. Finally people finds her and solves the problem.


Hemant Birje, Vijayendra, Jasmine and former Miss India Sahila Chadda played key roles in the movie. Jasmine particularly gave a good performance in the character of a girl possessed by another soul in her body. Directors Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay managed to get good work from every department. Bappi Lihiri gave music for this film.

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.

13B : Fear Has New Address

Madhavan who acted in super hit movies like Rang De Basanti & Guru, once again proved himself in the movie 13B.

This is a horror movie which was released on 6thMarch 2009. It was directed by Vikram.K.Kumar who made his debut in both Bollywood and Tamil with this film.

The story starts when a middle class family shifts to their new flat 13B in a apartment's 13th floor. The same day a family shifts into a new house in a serial which this family watches regularly.

The family members in serial are also similar to this family members. From that day onwards every thing which happens in the serial the same thing takes place in this family. These people enjoy all the happy things which happen in the serial and their family.


But later some sad things and bad things takes place in the serial. And this family people fears about their family. Manohar(Madhavan R) head of the family starts tracing the mystery behind the tragedy. What are the facts behind all these is the remaining story.

Madavan acted with some good energy level in entire movie. Neetu Chandra is okay. Director took very good story line but his script and screenplay is not perfect.

Music from Shankar-Eshaan-Loy is very good. P.C.Sreeram camera work definitely appreciable. The director has released this movie in Tamil also with the name Yavarum Nalam.

Bhoot

Ram Gopal Varma was fresh from a series of successful hits when he was filming this movie. Following the hit films like Jungle, Company, Darna Mana Hai, Ram Gopal Varma worked on this film. Varma mixed crime and thrill in this horror story.

Bhoot starts with a couple Swati (Urmila Matondkar) and Vishal (Ajay Devgan) who are in search of a home. They finds a flat on the 12th floor of an apartment building. After moving into that apartment, Swati comes to know that a woman comitted sucide in that apartment through her the neighbours.

Swati experiences many scary things which almost makes her mad. Vishal consults a psychiatrist Dr Rajan (Victor Banerjee) and one of their well wishers calls an exorcist (Rekha). They declare that some soul has entered Swati's body.


One day they find the watchman of that apartment was killed by somebody. Vishal meets the mother of that woman who killed herself in that flat. When the soul inside Swati watches her she reveals all the truth. Her neighbour Sanjay (Fardeen Khan) forced her to spent a night with him and she would have jumped from the balcony to protect herself. Sanjay and the watchman throw her son from the balcony who would've watched his mother's death.

She also reveals she killed the watchman with the help of Swati's body and would be planning to kill Sanjay. With the request of her mother she leaves Swati body. But kills Sanjay in jail who is arrested by Inspector Liaqat (Nana Patekar).

Ram Gopal Varma's received the Bollywood Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for the Filmfare. Urmila Matondkar gave her career's best performance in this movie and Rekha was justified for her role. All the remaining characters - Ajay Devgan, Fardeen Khan, Nana Patekar gave good performances.

Phoonk

After Darna Zaroori Hai, Ram Gopal Varma once again came out with the horror movie Phoonk. This time he used black magic as the main theme. Varma knows how to scare people with sounds and lonely places and silent scenes. But he kept away from all those things in this movie.

He concentrated on two things. One is black magic and the second about the people who don't believe in black magic, which was refelcted by the two leads in the movie.


Rajiv (Sudeep) is a successful contractor and an atheist with a good family, a beautiful wife, a daughter and a son. He never believes in God, ghosts and evil. But later struggles with the evil and depends on God and magicians. With this character the director justifies his tag line Its a Superstition Until It Happens To You.

One of Rajiv's business rival Anshuman (Kenny Desai seen in Black) and his wife Madhu (Ashwini Kalsekar) wants to destroy Rajiv's family. Madhu applies black magic on Rajiv's daughter. Rajiv thinks that it is a disease but later realises it is not and tries to protect his daughter.


Ram Gopal Varma failed to handle this horror flick. He took a wrong step in the story line and could not connect the two aspects of the story. No one expects this type of movie from Varma in the horror genre. Music director Amar Mohile tried his best to give life to movie. Camera work by Savita Singh in the movie is incredible.

Kannada Chocolate Boy Sudeep played a lead role as Rajiv and was impressive. Ahsaas Channa as daughter of Rajiv gave a good performance for her age. All the remaining characters are okay. But Ashwini Kalsekar fame of Aashiq Banaya Aapne is very bad with most of the people finding her annoying.

Junoon

Junoon is a horror movie released in 1992, directed by Mahesh Bhatt. Compared with other horror movies this concept is a little unique. A tiger's soul and its curse is the main story line. In this movie the mysterious feel in the story dominates fear. The director was inspired by the Hollywood movie An American Werewolf in London.


Dr Nita (Pooja Bhatt) is of a marriageable age. Her parents want a wealthy person as their son-in-law. But Nita is in love with upcoming singer Ravi (Avinash Wadhawan) who is not a wealthy man.


A seriously injured person Vikram (Rahul Roy) is admitted in Nita's hospital, who was injured by a tiger which kills his friend. Nita makes helps him recover. He starts liking her. But the tiger's curse transforms him into a tiger every full-moon.

He visits Nita's home and convinces her parents to let him marry her, breaking the relationship between Nita and Ravi. On the day of his marriage with Nita he transforms into a tiger and kills a woman. After that day, every night he continues to do the same thing.




One day Nita finds out her husband is not an ordinary man. She approaches a priest (Tom Alter) and to understand the mystery and find a solution for the problem. To kill Vikram they require a special dagger. If they kill him in any other way the curse transfers to them. After facing many problems from Vikram, Nita and Ravi find the dagger in a cave and kill Vikram.

Mahesh Bhatt has followed his own style as always. Pooja Bhatt gave a good performance and looked attractive. Rahul Roy was impressive. The other characters don't have a chance to perform. The director has got a good back ground score by Shravan Rathod.