Rakht

Rakht is a supernatural thriller directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. Bipasha Basu featured in a different role. Mahesh Manjrekar was inspired strongly by the Hollywood movie The Gift. Sunil Shetty took this movie production responsibilities.



Drishti (Bipasha Basu) who has some supernatural powers lives with her 8 year old son. She is able to say the things which are going to happen in the future. Sunny (Dino Morea) always troubles his wife Rhea (Neha Dhupia) by suspecting and beating her. Drishti suggests that she be independent from her husband. This makes Sunny very anger.

Rahul (Sanjay Dutt) falls for a beautiful girl Natasha (Amrita Arora) and gets engaged to her. But she maintains a relationship with other young men. One day Rahul finds Natasha is missing. He meets Dristi, with her powers Drishti finds the face of the person who kidnapped Natasha.

Kaal

Kaal is a horror movie produced by Shah Rukh Khan under his Red Chillies banner. John Abraham, Ajay Devgan, Esha Deol, Lara Dutta and Vivek Oberoi are the lead crew in this movie. The movie mostly runs in a forest. Story revolves around mysterious murders.



Krish Thaapar (John Abraham) and Riya (Esha Deol) enters into Orbit National Park which is a small forest with many animals. After entering into this forest they join with a students batch who came on a trip and entered into that forest by mistake. By morning Krish finds most them are dead.
He meets Kali Pratap Singh (Ajay Devgan), he suggests Krish to leave the forest. Krish finds the murders in the forest are because of Kali and that he is not a human being.



Kajol and Shahid Kapoor had to act in this movie but they refused this offer. Salim-Sulaiman gave a good background score. Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora Khan featured in an item number.

Bhool Bhulaiyya

Bhool Bhulaiyya is a remake of Malayalam film Manichithrathazhu. Already Manichithrathazhu was remade into Tamil with the name Chandramukhi. Chandramukhi was a record breaker. Rajnikanth, Nayanatara and Jyothika starred in that movie. After watching this huge success, director Priyadarshan remade it in Bollywood.



In Tamil, the director concentrated on Rajnikanth's image more than the horror. Priyadarshan mostly depended on comedy only than the horror. Akshay Kumar played the role of a psychiatrist. He gives treatment for a ghost which has occupied his friend's wife's (Vidya Balan) body.




The ghost is actually a dancer who was killed in the same building. Shiney Shuja and Amisha Patel are the other lead cast. Actually Priyan offered Vidya's character to Katrina and Aishwarya Rai but they rejected.

Darna Zaroori Hai

Ram Gopal Varma is one of the great honest person in India because he sincerely agrees to his failures. He scolds his bad movies publicly. But he never learns a lesson from his failures. Darna Zaroori Hai is the best example for that. This is a sequel for an utter flop movie Darna Mana Hai.






Like Darna Mana Hai, this movie also has different horror stories combined into a single story. An old lady tells horror stories to five children. She tells five different stories. At the end of the last story we find all the children were died. Amitabh Bachchan acted in this film without taking remuneration.




This movie also has a big list of cast- Ritesh Deshmukh, Mallika Sherawat, Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Sonali Kulakarni, Bipasha Basu, Randeep Hooda, Mohit Ahlawat and Nisha Kothari.

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.