Darna Zaroori Hai
| Darna Zaroori Hai | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ram Gopal Varma, Manish Gupta, Sajid Khan, Jijy Philip, Prawal Raman, J.D Chakravarthy, Vivek Shah |
| Written by | Ram Gopal Varma, Manish Gupta, Sajid Khan |
| Produced by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| 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 |
| Cinematography | Kiran Reddy |
| Edited by | Amit Parmar, Nipun Gupta |
| Music by | Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Amar Mohile |
| Distributed by | K Sera Sera Productions |
Release dates | April 28, 2006 |
Running time | 108 min. |
| Language | Hindi |
Darna Zaroori Hai (Hindi: डरना ज़रूरी है, Urdu: ڈرنا ضروری ہے) 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.
Synopsis
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 urinating on 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.
Story 2
Actors: Amitabh Bachchan and Ritesh Deshmukh. Director: Ram Gopal Varma.
An aged professor (Amitabh Bachchan) believes there's someone in his house. At times, the '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 his student (Ritesh Deshmukh), who revolts and in fact advices him to seek psychiatric help. The 'invisible man' finally is Amitabh himself looking like a burnt man in the mirror reflection.
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.
PS. The spirit is Arjun Rampal
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 (Rajpal Yadav). He is an insurance agent, who wants to sell the insurance policy to the couple. He shows them scenerios where its beneficial from them to take a policy 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 ironicaly he was the one who wanted to sell the insurance.
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 decides to write the concluding portions of his script at his bungalow in Khandala. En route, he spots a lone lady (Mallika Sherawat) and offers to give her a lift till Khandala. When they reach the film-maker's bungalow, the lady tells him that she's a ghost who had died on the Mumbai-Pune highway while on her way to watch Karan's newest movie which was a love story.
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 Hussian) refuses to buy the story. The mother of the victim (Rasika Joshi) arrives at the police station. And skeletons tumble out of the cupboard.yyyyyyyyyy
Story 7
The old lady and five children. Director: Manish Gupta.
Five kids take shelter in a dilapidated bungalow. There's an old woman in the house. She starts narrating stories. It is revealed that the kids slowly die of shock one after the other when listening to the story except for the last one who told the lady that he isn't afraid of anything and does not believe in ghosts, he tried to run at the end when he discovers that he had been sitting alone all the time and all his friends have been dead and lying there, he tries to open the main door but the handle comes off and eventually is killed by the old lady who is might be a witch or ghost.
Trivia
- Amitabh Bachchan shot his portion for the film in one day, he did not take any money for his contribution.
- The film has nearly twenty characters.
