Darna Zaroori Hai
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| Directed by | Ram Gopal Varma, Manish Gupta, Sajid Khan, Jijy Philip, Prawal Raman, J.D Chakravarthy, Vivek Shah |
| Produced by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Written by | Ram Gopal Varma, Manish Gupta, Sajid Khan |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Anil Kapoor, Mallika Sherawat, Manoj Pahwa, Sunil Shetty, Sonali Kulkarni, Arjun Rampal, Bipasha Basu, Rajpal Yadav, Makrand Deshpande, Isha Koppikar, Randeep Hooda, Zakir Hussain, Nisha Kothari, Mohit Ahlawat |
| Music by | Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Amar Mohile |
| Cinematography | Kiran Reddy |
| Editing by | Amit Parmar, Nipun Gupta |
| Distributed by | K Sera Sera Productions |
| Release date(s) | April 28, 2006 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Language | Hindi |
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Darna Zaroori Hai (Hindi: डरना ज़रूरी है, ै, Urdu: ڈرنا ضروری ہے, translation: Being scared is necessary) is a 2006 Indian portmanteau film, in which an old lady tells six scary stories to a group of five children. Each sub-film depicts one of these stories. Nisha Kothari and Mohit Ahlawat make special appearances in songs.
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[edit] Synopsis
[edit] Story 1
Actor: Manoj Pahwa. Director: Sajid Khan.
Pahwa is a film buff. He watches every new release in the night show on the first day itself. Just as he readies himself to visit a nearby theatre to catch the new release Darna Mana Hai, his mother cautions him against taking the route via the graveyard. It also happens to be Friday the 13th and Amavas ki raat (new moon). Pahwa dismisses his mother's plea since he doesn't believe in ghosts and goes through the graveyard, making fun of the dead and hitting a tree in the cemetery. The movie is boring and ends with no incident, but on the way back, for some reason he's a little more nervous than usual. He hears strange noises and someone seems to be pursuing him. He reaches the cemetery gates and just as he peers back, he sees the haunting face of a witch, at which point he dies of cardiac failure.
In the end, it turns out that the strange noises were only the sound of coins that were in his pocket and the witch turns out to be the poster of the new film DARNA ZAROORI HAI.
[edit] Story 2
Actors: Amitabh Bachchan and Ritesh Deshmukh. Director: Ram Gopal Varma.
An aged professor (Amitabh Bachchan) lives alone in a small house. He believes that there's also someone other than him in his house, an invisible person. At times, this 'invisible person' rushes to the kitchen. Sometimes, he makes himself comfortable on the chair. Is the professor hallucinating? The professor tries to explain the situation to a student of his (Ritesh Deshmukh), who revolts and in fact advices him to seek psychiatric help. After persistent insisting, the professor finally convinces his student to show him the 'invisible man'. The 'invisible man' finally is a ghost.
[edit] Story 3
Actors: Arjun Rampal, Bipasha Basu and Makrand Deshpande. Director: Prawal Raman.
One fateful night, a stranger (Arjun Rampal) knocks on the doors of a secluded bungalow. His car has had a breakdown, he needs a mechanic, he ought to make a phone call. The couple Varsha and Rahul (Bipasha Basu and Makrand Deshpande) living in this house are energetic and a bit eccentric. Both constantly try to scare Arjun. When Arjun states that he doesn't believe in ghosts and spirits, Makrand decides to call the spirits. There's a knock on the door and the spirit refuses to go back. After sometime a person comes and tells them about a car in front of the house and the driver is dead.
PS - When they reach the car they find that the driver is indeed dead and it is Arjun Rampal. The spirit was Arjun Rampal.
[edit] Story 4
Actors: Sunil Shetty, Sonali Kulkarni and Rajpal Yadav. Director: Vivek Shah.
A Maharashtrian couple (Sunil Shetty and Sonali Kulkarni) have an unexpected visitor in the form of a weird salesman, Prabhakar Pundit (Rajpal Yadav). He is an insurance agent, who wants to sell the insurance policy to the couple. He shows them scenarios where its beneficial from them to take a policy, shows them sources of death commonly found in homes and keeps on reminiding them about the accidents that may happen. In the melee that follows, Rajpal pulls the trigger of the pistol and bang. Rajpal dies and ironically he was the one who wanted to sell the insurance.
[edit] Story 5
Actors: Anil Kapoor and Mallika Sherawat. Director: Jijy Philip.
A leading film-maker, Karan Chopra (Anil Kapoor) wants to change lanes. After making a couple of family dramas, he is keen to make a horror film next. He has thought of a main concept: a lone lady who is actually a ghost, takes lifts from men on the highway, enters their house and kills them. He decides to write the concluding portions of his script at his bungalow in Khandala. Before leaving, he tells his crew to shortlist a girl for the film. En route, he spots a lone lady (Mallika Sherawat), she asks for a lift till Khandala. When they reach the film-maker's bungalow, the lady tells him that she's a ghost. This sends ice-cubes down Karan's neck and he dies of a heart attack (exactly Karan's newest story). Then only we realise that the lady is no ghost but an aspiring actress, shortlisted by his crew trying to impress Karan.
[edit] Story 6
Actors: Randeep Hooda, Zakir Hussain and Rasika Joshi. Director: J.D Chakravarthy.
On a rainy night, Ajay Doshi (Randeep Hooda) accidentally bumps into a woman. He is petrified. The next morning, when he opens his eyes, he finds himself in the police lock-up. He is accused of murdering a man. He claims he's innocent. The cop (Zakir Hussain) refuses to buy the story. The mother of the victim (Rasika Joshi) arrives at the police station. Ajay Doshi suddenly is possessed by the spirit of the woman whom he had bumped into earlier. The cop still refuses to believe the fact that Ajay Doshi is possessed. In a turn of events the spirit enters the Cop and now he is now possessed by the spirit of the woman. He draws a gun and kills the mother of the victim (Rasika Joshi). Finally the cop realises that it is actually a spirit and they bury the body of the mother of the victim (Rasika Joshi) and Ajay Doshi heads back to where he was going (the woman is actually murdered by the mother, father and her husband). Ajay Doshi had actually committed the murder when he was possessed.
[edit] Story 7
The old lady and five children. Director: Manish Gupta.
The seventh story is the overarching story that contains the other six stories. While the old lady narrates the stories, the children make excuses to go to the bathroom or have a drink of water. When they return to the group they seem strange and aloof. The last boy doesn't seem scared and tells the old lady that there was nothing really scary about her stories. The old lady smiles eerily and tells him that the last story is the most scary, the one in which the lady is the ghost. The boy tries to run at the end when he discovers that he had been sitting alone all the time and all his friends are dead. He tries to open the main door but the handle comes off and eventually is killed by the old lady who is perhaps a witch or ghost.
[edit] Trivia
- Amitabh Bachchan shot his portion for the film in one day, he did not take any money for his contribution.
- The film has 16 characters.
[edit] Goofs
- In Story 4, Prabhakar Pundit, while pulling out all the "sources of death", clearly says "don't worry these are all fake, it's just to show you", but in the end, he dies with a shot from the gun which was one of his fake "sources of death".
- Right at the end of the film, it says that the 5 kids died of cardiac failure due to fear, but the child that went down after story 4 was clearly shown to be stabbed.
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