Dhund: The Fog (2003)

A mysterious killer rises from the grave and terrorizes two couples in seeking revenge for his murder.

Director:

Shyam Ramsay

Writers:

S. Kahn (screenplay), Sajeev Kapoor (dialogue)

Stars:

Amar Upadhyaya, Aditi Govitrikar, Apoorva Agnihotri

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Amar Upadhyaya	...	Sameer (as Amar Upadhyay)
Aditi Govitrikar	...	Simran Malhotra
Apoorva Agnihotri	...	Kunal
Divya Palat	...	Kajal
Irrfan Khan	...	Ajit Khurana (as Irrfan)
Mukesh Tiwari	...	Vikram
Shweta Menon	...	Tanya Khurana
Tom Alter	...	Uncle Tom
Prem Chopra	...	Rajendra Malhotra
Gulshan Grover	...	Inspector Ashutosh Khanna
Vivek Vaswani	...	Vaswani
Dinesh Kaushik	...	Bholu Kaka
Pappu Polyester
Achyut Potdar
Shishir Sharma

Storyline

After the passing away of her parents, Simran Malhotra lives a wealthy lifestyle with her uncle, Rajendra. She has always won beauty pageants during her college days, and when an opportunity arises, she enters her name in a local beauty contest. This news is not welcomed by fellow-collegian, Tanya Khurana, who has always been the runner-up. She confides to her brother, Ajit, who assures her that Simran will be made to change her mind. Ajit makes some intimidating phone calls and even threatens her in person when she is alone, but to no avail, Simran does take part in the contest, and wins again. This breaks Tanya's heart, and an enraged Ajit, who swears that he will only rest after he kills or seriously disfigures Simran. Simran, her friend, Kajal, along with Sameer and Kunal decide to go to Khandala to celebrate Simran's win, and when the boys go to get something to eat, Ajit attacks Simran and Kajal, a scuffle ensues and Ajit gets killed. The boys return and together they decide not...

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Plot Keywords:

beauty contest | murder | action hero | ghost | fog

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Genres:

Adventure | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi English

Release Date:

21 February 2003 (India)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

153 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

Whenever the body is seen underwater, an Olympic-sized swimming pool is seen with completely clear water and lane markings instead of the murky water in the tiny pool that is seen in front of the mansion.

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Connections

References Psycho (1960)

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Soundtracks

"Mehki Mehki Zulfon Mein"
Music by Viju Shah

User Reviews

Confused-The Musical

When I think Bollywood. I think of lite feel good musical dance numbers, with gorgeous outfits on the men and women. And catchy tunes. Horror, Thrillers, Mystery and Suspense, don't come to mind though. And this, to my Western eyes, is like an abstract comedy.

I think it would have been a better movie, shorter even, if the writer and the director had made a definite choice. Either gone for outright Thriller-Horror, Comedy-Mystery, Supernatural-Suspense or Musical-Romance, instead of an awkward mixture of them all.

I'll have to say more than once I thought the director must have seen "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and tried to give it a Bollywood twist. My first film was Bride & Prejudice. Which I thought was acted well.

This seemed like what a Western Audience would consider a straight to video cheese fest.

The acting was over the top, at times it felt like they were intentionally trying to parody western thrillers, but when you saw them try to inject the dramatic crying, screaming or fear, it felt out of place.

The viewer was left wondering when one of the actors would wink at the camera. More than a few times when the audience was supposed to be horrified, we could only snicker a the absurdity.

I watch a lot of foreign films, and even though I don't know Hindi, I have to say they did a poor job subtitling the film. Sometimes it was difficult to read the white lettering against the bright background.

The villain was particularly amusing, at least to me, because he came with his own mood music. The supposed surprising twist, actually felt like a cop out.

The lead couples were handsome/pretty enough, and the musical numbers made it worth my rental fee. I'd suggest it to someone as a musical- comedy, but I'd tell them to just fast forward the rest of the movie, because it wasn't worth the effort of reading. If you're determined to read a whole subtitled Hindi flick, then check out the superior Romantic Drama 'Namasteay, London'.

But I was not scared..unless that's really what they think is horrifying in India. 1 out of 10 for what it's being touted as. 6 out of 10 for it's unintentional quickness & ability to illicit lots of laughs, and it's musical/dance numbers. Enjoy :)