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Horror Story (film)

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{{Infobox film
| name = Horror Story
| image = Horror-Story-movie-poster-2013.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Ayush Raina
| producer = ASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
| writer = [[Vikram Bhatt]] Mohan Azad [[Sukhmani Sadana]] (dialogues)
| starring = [[Karan Kundra]] [[Radhika Menon]] [[Nishant Singh Malkani]] [[Ravish Desai]] [[Hasan Zaidi]] [[Aparna Bajpai]] Nandini Vaid [[Sheetal Singh]]
| music = [[Amar Mohile]]
| cinematography = Gargey trivedi
| editing = Kuldip Mehan
| studio = ASA Production and Enterprises Pvt Ltd.
| distributor = ASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2013|09|13}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INRConvert|6|c}}<ref name="boxofficeindia1">[http://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=1483 Horror Story - Movie - Box Office India]</ref>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INRConvert|7|c}}<ref name="boxofficeindia1"/>
}}

'''''Horror Story''''' is a [[Bollywood]] [[drama film|dramatic]] [[horror film]] written by [[Vikram Bhatt]] and directed by Ayush Raina.<ref>{{cite news|title='Horror Story' has horror from the first scene to the last: Bhatt|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Horror-Story-has-horror-from-the-first-scene-to-the-last-Bhatt/articleshow/22028164.cms|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=The Times of India|date=25 August 2013}}</ref> The film stars [[Ravish Desai]] and [[Hasan Zaidi]], and features the Bollywood movie debut of noted television actors [[Nishant Singh Malkani|Nishant malkani]] and [[Karan Kundra]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Vikram-Bhatts-tryst-with-horror-continues/articleshow/20724461.cms?from=mdr |access-date=3 August 2013|work=[[The Times of India]]|title=Vikram Bhatt's tryst with horror continues |date=23 June 2013}}</ref> The film was released on 13 September 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=Vikram Bhatt spooks media with 'Horror Story'|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/96732.html|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=India Glitz|date=22 August 2013}}</ref> The plot revolves around a night spent by seven youngsters at a haunted hotel. The film received positive reviews but was declared "Average" at the box office.<ref name="boxofficeindia1"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.glamsham.com/movies/scoops/13/aug/02-news-vikram-bhatts-horror-story-preponed-0813013.asp |access-date=3 August 2013|publisher=GlamSham.com |title=Vikram Bhatt's HORROR STORY preponed |date=2 August 2013}}</ref> The film is based on the [[Stephen King]] short story ''[[1408 (short story)|1408]]''.

==Plot==
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Vikrant Nerula enters the deserted Grandiose Hotel alone. He proceeds to room 3046, goes to the terrace and jumps off, killing himself.

Seven friends, Sam (Samraat), Maghhesh, Achint, Neel, Neena, Sonia and Maggie, reunite in a local pub after several years apart to celebrate the farewell of Neel, who is going abroad. They learn about an abandoned hotel that is reportedly haunted. It had originally been a [[mental asylum]] for the [[criminally insane]], but was almost completely destroyed in a fire. The origin of the fire has never been fully explained. After years of neglect, the ruins were refurbished into a five star hotel. The hotel was unsuccessful due to strange happenings that drove the owner to suicide. Rumors state that he was pushed into suicide by the ghost of an asylum inmate.

All of them treat it seriously, except Maggie and Sam. They say that they wouldn't believe something they haven't seen. A worker at the bar says, that "...you would not be alive to believe once you see it". Sam suggests that the group explore the abandoned building.

They try to enter the hotel from the main door, but cannot, so enter by the back door. Neena observes strange things, but Neel brushes her claims aside. They find a TV set on with no transmission or power. Both Achint and Neel hear the sounds, "WELCOME". Ignoring it as a hallucination, they proceed to room 3046, a notorious room.

There, Sam is killed. The group flees in panic and comes to realize that they are trapped inside the hotel with no way out. Achint and Maghhesh go to the terrace to try and find a cellular connection. There, Maghhesh is killed by ghost spirits.

The group starts being terrorized by a ghostly woman. Sonia is dragged into the darkness by the ghost. With three people dead, the remaining four find an abandoned jeep which they use to try to get out of the hotel, amid ghostly apparitions. After a tiring drive through misty areas, the group escape, only to find that they are back at the door of room 3046. They realize that the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.

Soon they are confronted by Sonia, whom Achint and Neel think is the ghost, but a tearful Sonia tells them that it is really her. The group learns that, when the hotel was a mental asylum, a possessed girl named Maya ([[Sheetal Singh]]) was admitted after she murdered her entire family. Maya would always claim to have 'married the devil', and would become very violent at the hospital, even killing the doctors and causing the fire that broke out and killed all the inmates. The group realize that it is Maya who is terrorizing them.

Sonia tries to contact Maya to find what she wants. She gets a call from Maya, saying that the spirit wants to kill them all, nothing else. The terrified group then discover that Sonia is actually dead and Maya is speaking through her. Neena asks the time from Neel, only to be told that it is the same time (3:55 AM) she had seen on the clock in one of the rooms shortly after entering the hotel. Believing it is some kind of intuition, they decide to go back to the same room to understand Neena's extrasensory perception.

There they find a book containing paranormal explanations and a way to locate an energy source of dark spirits. With the help of incantations from the book, they have visions of the past. They see that the hotel was a mental asylum and find that the energy source of the dark spirit is in a shock machine. They decide to burn it down to end the horror.

Neel and Maggie go to kitchen in search of something flammable. Maggie sees a female spirit sitting on chair and reading newspaper. When she reaches towards her, Neel again brushes her aside. Maggie is killed by Maya who appears in the form of Neel. Achint is beheaded by the spirit, leaving only Neel and Neena alive.

Neel tries to burn the machine, but is pulled by the spirit into a closet. The spirit starts terrorizing Neena. Neena starts a fire. Amidst ghostly apparitions and obstructions, and with the help of the spirit of Vikrant Narula (who had died at the beginning of the film), she manages to burn the machine. This results in the destruction of Maya's spirit. The film ends with the entrance doors of the hotel opening at dawn and a traumatized Neena, the only survivor, walking outside.

==Cast==

*[[Karan Kundra]] as Neel
*[[Radhika Menon]] as Neena
*[[Nishant Singh Malkani]] as Achint
*[[Ravish Desai]] as Magesh
*[[Hasan Zaidi]] as Samraat "Sam"
*[[Aparna Bajpai]] as Maggie
*[[Nandini Vaid]] as Sonia
*[[Sheetal Singh]] as Maya
*[[Bikramjeet Kanwarpal]] as Vikrant Narula

==Production==
Of the film, Bhatt has stated that he did not want ''Horror Story'' to contain any songs or any sex scenes.<ref name="TOI1">{{cite news|title=No sex in Vikram Bhattâ's Horror Story|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-24/news-interviews/41440947_1_infamous-hotel-vikram-bhatt-horror-story|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130830202559/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-24/news-interviews/41440947_1_infamous-hotel-vikram-bhatt-horror-story|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 August 2013|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=24 August 2013}}</ref> He also remarked that he wanted to avoid casting "big stars" in the film, as he believed that they "cannot turn the audience fearful" in what he termed as a "hardcore horror film".<ref name="TOI1" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Vikram Bhatt's 'Horror Story'|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636mRGhnTas|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=MSN India|date=21 August 2013}}</ref> Ravish Desai has commented that the movie will be the first in a franchise and that planning for further films has already begun.<ref name="IBN">{{cite news|title=No set formula for success in Bollywood, says Karan Kundra|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/no-set-formula-for-success-in-bollywood-says-karan-kundra/416844-8-66.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827174200/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/no-set-formula-for-success-in-bollywood-says-karan-kundra/416844-8-66.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 August 2013|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=IBN Live|date=24 August 2013}}</ref>

Bhatt had earlier made films in the same genre, namely - ''[[1920 (film)|1920]]'', ''[[1920: Evil Returns]]'' and ''[[Haunted – 3D|Haunted]]''. In an interview, he had commented, "While [my] ''[[Raaz 3]]'' and ''1920'' were romantic sagas with songs and full-on drama, this one is more of a Hollywood kind of drama. The horror lies in the story."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sakaaltimes.com/cricketcarnival/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=4758762844580734098&SectionId=5558842172310824508&SectionName=Cinema&NewsDate=20130825&Provider=Sakaal%20Times&NewsTitle=I%20like%20to%20sell%20fear:%20Vikram%20Bhatt |access-date=31 August 2013|publisher=Sakaaltimes |title= I like to sell fear: Vikram Bhatt |date=25 August 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Indian horror films]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{BH movie|horror-story}}
* {{IMDb movie}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes}}

{{Vikram Bhatt}}

[[Category:2010s horror drama films]]
[[Category:2010s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films set in hotels]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian horror drama films]]
[[Category:2013 films]]
[[Category:Films based on short fiction]]
[[Category:Films based on works by Stephen King]]
[[Category:2013 drama films]]

Bezubaan Ishq

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{{Infobox film
| name = Bezubaan Ishq
| image = Bezubaan Ishq - Poster.jpg
| director = Jashwant Gangani
| producer = Jashwant Gangani C.J.Gadara Dinesh Likhiya
| writer = Jashwant Gangani
| screenplay = Jashwant Gangani Sanjay V. Shah
| starring = [[Mugdha Godse]] [[Sneha Ullal]] [[Nishant Singh Malkani]]
| music = Rupesh Verma Babli Haque
| cinematography = S.Kuumar Bhagat
| editing = Paresh Y. Manjrekar
| studio = Gangani Motion Pictures
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2015|07|03|df=y}}
| runtime = 130 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/bezubaan-ishq/cast/ |title=Bezubaan Ishq Cast & Crew |publisher=[[Bollywood Hungama]]}}</ref>
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
}}

'''''Bezubaan Ishq''''' ({{translation|Unspoken love}}) is 2015 [[Bollywood|Hindi]] [[romance film|romantic]] film directed by [[Jashwant Gangani]] and produced by C.J. Gadara and Dinesh Likhiya. The film stars [[Mugdha Godse]], [[Sneha Ullal]] and [[Nishant Singh Malkani|Nishant malkani]] in leads roles. Music directors Babli Haque and Rupesh Verma composed the music for the film. The film was released on July 3, 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last1=D'Souza|first1=Martin|title=BEZUBAAN ISHQ is an honest film with decent performances|url=http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/bezubaan-ishq-movie-review.asp|accessdate=3 July 2015|publisher=Glamsham|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704215301/http://www.glamsham.com/movies/reviews/bezubaan-ishq-movie-review.asp|archive-date=4 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Synopsis==

The film was shot in various parts of [[India]] like [[Jaipur]], [[Jaisalmer]] and [[Mumbai]]. The film is set in the modern milieu with traditional Indian backdrop and values. It revolves around three friends and their respective families. Mansukh Patel is an NRI business tycoon residing with his British wife, Lisa and daughter Rumzum in London, UK. The Patels live in the [[United Kingdom]] but haven't forgotten their Indian tradition and values.

Mansukh's younger brother, Rashmikant lives in [[Mumbai]] with his daughter, Suhani. Having lost his wife Rekha early in life, Rashmikant is a protective father and pampers Suhani with all her demands, and so does his mother, Savitri.

Rashmikant's childhood friend, Vipul is also his business partner. He lives with his wife, Laxmi and son, Swagat. Suhani and Swagat have been childhood sweethearts. Suhani is a bindaas, open-hearted girl. Swagat is more subdued in nature. Swagat plays an important role in Suhani's life.

Swagat is bowled over by Rumzum's simplicity, pure innocence, beauty and her nature. Whereas, Suhani is madly in love with Swagat. Will Swagat marry Suhani and live happily ever after or will he find true love in Rumzum? Jashwant Gangani's Bezubaan Ishq unravels the beautiful story of unspoken love and sacrifice with pure characters from real life.

==Casting==

[[Mugdha Godse]]'s character, 'Suhani' is an electrifying personality. She is full of life, a spoilt brat, and can be very aggressive when it comes to love and friendship. She loves her friend a lot.

Introducing [[Nishant Singh Malkani|Nishant malkani]] as a young boy, playing the role of 'Swagat'. His modern views with traditional values is what will blow your mind. In the film, he is shown as the son of a business tycoon and Suhani's best friend.

[[Sneha Ullal]], plays the role of 'Rumzum', a kind-hearted and innocent girl, who is also 'Suhani's' cousin from London.

==Cast==
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*[[Mugdha Godse]] as Suhani
*[[Sneha Ullal]] as Rumzum
*[[Nishant Singh Malkani]] as Swagat
*[[Darshan Jariwala]] as Rashmikant Patel
*[[Farida Jalal]] as Savitri
*[[Sachin Khedekar]] as Manshuk Patel
*Muni Jha as Vipul Shah
*[[Smita Jaykar]] as Laxmi Shah
*Alexandra Ashman as Liza
*Jitu Pandya
*Soniya Mehta as Ananya
*Rittesh Mobh as Pintu
*Akshita Sethi as Jassi
*[[Aru Krishansh Verma]] as Parbat
*Devendra Pandit
*Sanjay Patel
*Rakesh Pujara
*Abhijeet
*Ajay Sharma
*Hitesh Rawal
*Naresh Patel
*Yasmine Deliken
*Dr. Rahul Sharma
*Gautam Shrivastav
*Saloni
{{div col end}}

==Soundtrack==

{{Infobox album
| name = Bezubaan Ishq
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = Babli Haque & Rupesh Verma
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| recorded =
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| language = Hindi
| genre = [[Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 42:09
| label = [[Sony Music India]]
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The music for the film is composed by Rupesh Verma & Babli Haque. The soundtrack of the film comprises 7 songs & lyrics are penned by Jashwant Gangani & Prashant Ingole (Har Lamha Kar Party) and the Audio CD was released by [[Sony Music India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.saavn.com/s/album/hindi/Bezubaan-Ishq-2015/IYP5fULUiYg_ |title=Bezubaan Ishq - 2015 - Sony Music |publisher=[[Saavn]]}}</ref>

{{track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = {{Duration|m=42|s=09}}
| title1 = Bezubaan Ishq
| extra1 = [[Javed Ali]] & [[Arpita Chakraborty]]
| lyrics1 = Jashwant Gangani
| music1 = Rupesh Verma
| length1 = 6:06
| title2 = Ankhon Mein Basa Lunga
| extra2 = [[Mohit Chauhan]] & Parineeta
| lyrics2 = Jashwant Gangani
| music2 = Rupesh Verma
| length2 = 4:39
| title3 = Har Lamha Kar Party
| extra3 = [[Shalmali Kholgade]]
| lyrics3 = Prashant Ingole
| music3 = Babli Haque
| length3 = 4:19
| title4 = Teri Masumiyat
| extra4 = Altamash Faridi
| lyrics4 = Jashwant Gangani
| music4 = Rupesh Verma
| length4 = 5:08
| title5 = Teri Meri Ankahi Dastan
| extra5 = [[Mohit Chauhan]] & [[Shreya Ghoshal]]
| lyrics5 = Jashwant Gangani
| music5 = Rupesh Verma
| length5 = 6:13
| title6 = Dil Parinda
| extra6 = [[Tochi Raina]] & Anita Bhatt
| lyrics6 = Jashwant Gangani
| music6 = Rupesh Verma
| length6 = 5:09
| title7 = Bhor Bhayo
| extra7 = Osman Mir
| lyrics7 = Jashwant Gangani
| music7 = Rupesh Verma
| length7 = 5:07
| title8 = Dil Parinda
(Unplugged)
| extra8 = [[Tochi Raina]]
| lyrics8 = Jashwant Gangani
| music8 = Rupesh Verma
| length8 = 5:09
}}

==Critical reception==

Troy Ribeiro of [[NDTV]] gave the film a rating of 0.5 out of 5 and said that, "Bezubaan Ishq lacks novelty and offers nothing spectacular. The plot, stitched with numerous songs, seems forced and the situations contrived."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie-reviews/bezubaan-ishq-movie-review-1146 |title=Bezubaan Ishq Movie Review |publisher=[[NDTV]]}}</ref> Paloma Sharma of [[Rediff]] gave the film a rating of 0.5 out of 5 and said that, "Bezubaan Ishq is pure drivel."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/review-bezubaan-ishq-is-sanskaari-grand-masti/20150703.htm |title=Review: Bezubaan Ishq is sanskaari Grand Masti |publisher=[[Rediff]]}}</ref> Renuka Vyavahare of [[The Times of India]] criticized the film makers for making a film on a story that is way past its expiry date and said that, "Their concept is ghastly outdated and the television soap opera-esque execution yawn-worthy." The critic gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 5.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/bezubaan-ishq/movie-review/47922257.cms |title=Bezubaan Ishq Movie Review |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|4760750}}

[[Category:Indian romantic drama films]]
[[Category:Indian family films]]
[[Category:2010s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2015 romantic drama films]]