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List Of Indian Horror Films
This is a list of notable Indian horror films. Hindi films Kannada film Malayalam films History 1940s–1960s The first real horror movie made by the Indian film industry was Kamal Amrohi's '' Mahal'' in 1949. The film (which starred Ashok Kumar and Madhubala in leading roles) proved a major box office hit, leading Madhubala and Lata Mangeshkar into stardom. Hemant Kumar's '' Bees Saal Baad'' (released in 1962) was another film which proved to be a box-office success. This film ignited the huge increase in popularity of horror-genre movies in the following years. ''Gumnaam'' (1965) and ''Bhoot Bungla'' (also 1965) were some of the other major horror movies which were seen in theaters at this time. One of the major aspects behind the success of the horror movies of this decade (apart from a good storyline) was the presence of high-class music and singing, a Bollywood trademark. These films also had well-known actors and directors, which helped present some of the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, interm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhoot Bungla
''Bhoot Bungla'' () is a 1965 Indian Hindi-language horror comedy film directed by Mehmood, who stars in the film alongside Tanuja and Nazir Hussain. Music for this film was composed by R.D. Burman. Plot Fifty years ago, Kundanlal was murdered and his wife and child vanished on a dark night, at the haunted bungalow surrounded by a jungle in the outskirts of Bombay. In the present, three brothers are living in the bungalow, who are Kundanlal's nephews. They are Shyamlal, Ramlal and Ramu. On the eve of Ramlal's daughter Rekha's Return from London, Ramlal is killed in a car accident which is suspected of murder. The suspicion is reinforced when Ramu is found hanging in his bedroom on the same night. Postmortem reports claim he was murdered before being hanged. Shyamlal and Rekha move out of the bungalow to their home in the city and live there. However Rekha receives threatening phone calls about her death. She meets Mohan Kumar, the president of a local youth club, when he de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahshat
''Dahshat'' is a 1981 Bollywood horror film directed by Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay. Plot Dr. Sameer has just returned to his native place Chandan Nagar after finishing his medical studies in Russia. He is assisted by Dr. Bakshi, a vet by profession, but looks to be a close relative of a roadside juggler. Sameer is welcomed by his family and is greeted by his childhood crush Kiran, with whom he soon gets romantically entangled. Sameer discovers a horrible secret and terror that anonymously lies in the vicinity. It seems a grave robber is digging up graves for some reason and is stealing the cadavers. Sameer decides to look into the issue and soon meets success after a heavy affaire d'honneur. The grave-digger is a grotesque mute man, who is soon arrested by the Police. Sameer somehow traces the hideout of the mute man. It's Dr. Vishal's house. Dr. Vishal is an unfaithful husband, who frequently has run-ins with his drunkard wife Mrs. Vishal. Sameer (with Kiran) gets inside th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guest House (1980 Film)
''Guest House'' is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language horror film directed by Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay and produced by the Ramsay Brothers. This film was released in 1980 in the banner of Ramsay Productions. The music of the movie was composed by Bappi Lahiri. Plot Christopher, a psychic with ability to contact spirits, goes to a remote village for conducting a seance. He stays in a guest house at the village. Christopher has a valuable ring in his finger. The guest house's manager & co-worker murders him and cuts his hand off for the ring and buries the corpse. The dead hand revives with evil power to avenge. Cast * Vijayendra Ghatge as Suraj * Padmini Kapila as Sunita * Prem Nath as Christopher * Narendra Nath as John * Rajendra Nath as Bawra * Mac Mohan as Shaktiprasad Srivastav * Pinchoo Kapoor as Mr. Mehra * Sudhir as Police officer * Sujit Kumar as Kalia * Roopesh Kumar as Kantilal * Prem Krishen Prem Krishen (born 5 July 1953) is an Indian actor, turned TV and fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rose (1980 Film)
''Red Rose'' is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film, starring Rajesh Khanna and Poonam Dhillon. It is a remake of the Tamil film ''Sigappu Rojakkal'', made by the same director Bharathiraja and the same cinematographer P. S. Nivas. Plot Anand is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls, seduces and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor, another deranged woman-hater who, as with Anand, had a disillusioning experience with the female sex in his past. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of Anand's mansion watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do. The murdered girls are buried in Anand's garden and a rosebush is grown above them. Anand chances upon an undergarments salesgirl, Sharda and develops an attraction for her. Sharda, a conservative woman, insists that Anand must marry her if he wants to have his way with her. The romance proceeds and appears to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gehrayee
''Gehrayee'' () is a 1980 Indian horror thriller film directed by Vikas Desai and Aruna Raje based on a script by Vijay Tendulkar, Desai and Raje, and starring Anant Nag, Padmini Kolhapure, Sriram Lagoo and Indrani Mukherjee with Amrish Puri in a guest appearance. The film was produced by N. B. Kamat. Plot Chennabasappa is a successful manager of a reputed firm in Bangalore and lives with his devoted but docile wife Saroja, son Nandish and daughter Uma. Chennabasappa wants to build a house for his family in Bangalore and desperately needs money. He decides to sell his plantation spread across several acres in his ancestral village to a soap company. The plantation has been looked after by a very poor caretaker Baswa for many years who was Chennabasappa's loyal servant. Upon knowing Chennabasappa's intentions, Baswa becomes agitated as he considers Chennabasappa's act to be something close to the rape of one's mother. In his view, the piece of land is like one's mother (sign of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saboot
Saboot () is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language horror/thriller film directed by Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay. It stars Navin Nischol, Kajal Kiran, Vidya Sinha, Vinod Mehra, Trilok Kapoor, Om Shivpuri and Prem Chopra. Plot Seth Dharamdas (Trilok Kapoor) has two daughters: the older one is Asha (Vidya Sinha) and the younger one is Kajal ( Kajal Kiran). Dharamdas had struck a business deal with Dhanraj. Here, Asha marries her love interest Vikas (Vinod Mehra), but he dies in an air crash. Asha grieves his loss, following which, Dharamdas cancels his plan to sell the factory and decides to dedicate the factory as a souvenir to Vikas. Dhanraj (Prem Chopra) doesn't want this deal be cancelled and hence bribes Dharamdas's trusted employees Manmohan Saxena (Roopesh Kumar), Ashok Gupta ( Narendranath) and Rita (Padma Khanna) into helping him to kill Dharamdas. Dharamdas has to go to Nainital for a business trip. However, he is approached by Dhanraj, Ashok and Manmohan in the train itself a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aur Kaun?
''Aur Kaun?'' () is a 1979 Bollywood horror film directed by Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay. The music of the film composed by Bappi Lahiri was popular in 1979, especially the song "Haan Pehli Baar" sung by Kishore Kumar. The title song was sung by Lata Mangeshkar in her haunting melody style. This film is loosely inspired from 1955 French film Diabolique. Plot Raj loves with his college mate Komal. One day he is seduced by an elderly lady teacher Mona. Mona is found dead in Raj's house. Cast *Roopesh Kumar *Madan Puri * Sachin *Om Shivpuri as Ram Saroop * Sachin as Raj *Rajni Sharma as Komal *Padmini Kapila as Mona Songs The songs were composed by Bappi Lahiri Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and .... References External links * Hindi-language horro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadu Tona
''Jadu Tona'' is a List of Bollywood films of 1977, 1977 Hindi horror film directed by Ravikant Nagaich. The film stars Feroz Khan (actor), Feroz Khan and Reena Roy. Plot The story is inspired from the film ''The Exorcist (film), The Exorcist''. The movie ''Raat (film), Raat'' has also similarities with this movie. Cast *Feroz Khan (actor), Feroz Khan *Reena Roy Music #"Aaine Kuch Toh Batta Unka Tih Hamraaz Hai Tuhi" - Yesudas #"Har Sannata Kuch Kehta Hai" - Asha Bhosle, Yesudas #"Yeh Gaon Pyara Pyara, Yeh Lovely Lovely Gaon" - Varsha Bhosle #"Atulit Bal Dhaamam Hey Sevak Shriram Ke" - Dilraj Kaur, Minoo Purushottam, Suman Kalyanpur, Hemant Kumar, Asha Bhosle, Brij Bhushan #"Sawari Saloni Jamna Ka Jeewan" - Yesudas, Asha Bhosle, Shivangi Kolhapure References External links * 1977 films 1970s Hindi-language films 1977 horror films Films scored by Uttam Singh Films about spirit possession Films directed by Ravikant Nagaich {{1970s-horror-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwaza
''Darwaza'' () is a 1978 Bollywood horror film directed by Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay. Plot Thakur Pratap Singh has lost his beloved ones due to a curse put on him and his family by a widow, whose son Dharma was unintentionally killed by Pratap Singh long back. Now Pratap Singh is on death bed tended by his extremely loyal servant Shankar. Pratap Singh calls his friend Professor to his Haveli and asks him to take his son Suraj to one of his friends in Mumbai. Moments later we see that Thakur dies and the Professor and his charioteer Shambhu Kaka are attacked by a gruesome, ghastly, vengeful deformed ghoul. With much valor Shambhu Kaka saves Suraj and scrams, but Professor, not so lucky, dies a macabre death. Time goes by and now Suraj has grown up andy is in love with his uncle's daughter Rachna. After few romantic sequences they get married. However, not everything goes on suavely as Suraj is tormented by the haunting memories of past. He decides to take matter in his ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaani Dushman
''Jaani Dushman'' () is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language horror film produced and directed by Rajkumar Kohli under the Shankar Movies banner. It features an ensemble cast including Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Mehra, Rekha, Neetu Singh and Reena Roy and music composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. The film is recorded as a ''Super Hit'' at the box office. In 2002, Rajkumar Kohli directed another film with an identical name starring his son, Armaan. Plot The film begins with Thakur Jwala Prasad who is murdered by his wife on their wedding night. His spirit returns to earth as a malevolent force who seeks revenge by killing newly wedded brides who wear traditional red bridal sarees. To do so, he has to possess a human body which turns into a monstrous being in the presence of brides. The possessed person appears to be normal otherwise so no one actually knows that the person is under the evil spirit's control. The only way to eliminate the spirit is by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagin (1976 Film)
''Nagin'' ( ''Female Serpent'') is a 1976 Hindi-language horror film, produced and directed by Rajkumar Kohli, under the Shankar Movies banner. It stars Reena Roy in the titular role alongside an ensemble cast, including Sunil Dutt, Feroz Khan, Sanjay Khan, Rekha, Mumtaz, Vinod Mehra, Yogeeta Bali, Kabir Bedi, Anil Dhawan, and Jeetendra; its music was composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Despite being a fantasy type film, it was a blockbuster at the box office and the highest-grossing film of 1976. Following the success of the film, Reena Roy attained star status. It was inspired by François Truffaut's 1968 French film ''The Bride Wore Black'', which was based on Cornell Woolrich's 1940 novel of the same name. The film was later remade in Tamil as ''Neeya?'' (1979), with Sripriya playing Nagin. Plot Prof. Vijay researches snakes. According to a myth, he believes that after a certain age, they take human form. He plans a trip to a forest, along with his friends Raj, Rajesh, Uday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |