Hawa (2003 Film)
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''Hawa'' (English: Wind) is a 2003 Hindi
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starring
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. The film was an unofficial remake of the 1983 American horror film ''
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'' which starred
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. Hawa was later dubbed into
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as ''Naa Intlo Oka Roju'' and then in
Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...
as ''Raja Leelai''. This was
Hansika Motwani Hansika Motwani (born 9 August 1991) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil and Telugu films. Hansika began her career as a child actor in Hindi films, and later went on to appear in lead roles in Telugu films, including ''Des ...
's on-screen debut as a child artist.


Plot

The beautiful Sanjana is a divorcee who moves to a hillside house, as she cannot afford a house in the city. To earning her living, she runs her stepfather's antique shop. However, it is not long before strange occurrences begin near and in her home. One day, a
Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...
old lady gives her an antique
locket A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item such as a lock of hair. Lockets are usually given to loved ones on holidays such as Valentine's Day and occasions such as christenings, wedding ...
at her antique shop and leaves. Sanjana sells it to a tourist couple for 500 rupees. Sanjana finds the lady on the way to her home to return the money, but she discovers that the lady was dead. The locket is returned to Sanjana by the tourist as the Tibetan lady keeps haunting the couple to make them return it. Later Sanjana is tortured and physically raped multiple times by an invisible demon first at room then at shower than infront her own kids. Then Her dog also becomes possessed, and attacks her and Vicky, her younger brother. Sanjana consults a psychiatrist who doesn't believe her at first despite telling multiple times. Soon the invisible demon have a sensual sex with Sanjana, which she gets orgasm but soon regrets for having sex with an invisible being, after while The demon takes away her younger daughter from Sanjana. She calls her psychiatric friend and he brings a parapsychologist. Sanjana comes to learn that the demon comes from an old well, where the tribals used to push down and kill criminals as punishment. Due to lightning striking the well, one soul who was rapist, was thrown in the well and killed, has now escapes and he fell for her lust towards Sanjana. The parapsychologist opens the well from which all the evil spirits come out and attacks him. Sanjana jumps into the well to bring back her daughter. There all the spirits get combined into a huge demon. Sanjana throws the Tibetan locket to hit the demon, which then dissolves. The soul of Sanjana's father comes as an angel and returns her younger daughter. Sanjana prepares to leave her house and suddenly the door closes. A demonic voice calls her and she opens the door but finds nothing. Before leaving, her younger daughter suddenly runs to the house and the door closes.


Cast

*
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as Sanjana * Shahbaz Khan as Dr. Asif Ali *
Mukesh Tiwari Mukesh Tiwari (born 24 August 1969) is an Indian actor, who has worked predominantly in Bollywood. and few Tamil films. He is known for playing negative and comic side roles. He entered the film industry in the year 1998 with the movie '' China ...
as Psychiatrist-exorcist (Tantrik) *
Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...
as Vicky, Sanjana's brother * Grusha Kapoor as Pooja (as Grusha Grover) *
Vishwajeet Pradhan Vishwajeet Pradhan (born 11 September 1965) is an Indian and television actor who has worked in Hindi films and television. Incidents on sets A major fire broke out on the sets of ''No Problem'' while the unit was shooting in the middle of th ...
as Pooja's husband *
Amit Behl Amit Behl is an Indian theatre, television and film actor. Behl began his career in 1994 with a role in India's first daily soap opera '' Shanti''. He later went on to do almost 100 TV serials in Hindi, English, Marathi, Punjabi and Urdu. He ha ...
as Vijay, Sanjana's husband *
Avtar Gill Avtar Gill is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi and Punjabi language films and television serials. He has done many plays with Indian People's Theatre Association Mumbai. Selected filmography Films * ''Noorie'' (1979) * '' ...
as Sanjana's father/ Angel * Baby Hansika as Sasha, Sanjana's elder daughter * Baby Bhavika as Misha, Sanjana's younger daughter * Suresh Chatwal as Real Estate Agent


Critical reception

Taran Adarsh of
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gave the film 2.5 stars and claimed that 'the film merges two lethal aspects, sex and violence, which should prove a path-breaking exercise for the Hindi viewer.' Suraj Das of Planet Bollywood, gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and said that 'Self-respecting moviegoers looking for quality film rather than shameful sexual exploitation should steer far clear of this compost.' Anjum N from
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, gave the film a negative review and said that 'Tabu is the only saving grace of the movie', and 'it's rather sad that all her effort has been wasted in a movie like Hawa.


References


External links

* {{IMDb title, 0369516, Hawa 2000s Hindi-language films Indian supernatural horror films Indian horror film remakes 2003 films 2003 horror films Films scored by Surinder Sodhi Indian remakes of American films Films directed by Guddu Dhanoa