1920: Evil Returns: Difference between revisions

| producer      = [[Vikram Bhatt]]<ref name="one">{{Cite web |url=http://bollywood-movie-review.com/1920-evil-returns-reviews-cast-plot-summary-song.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108004605/http://bollywood-movie-review.com/1920-evil-returns-reviews-cast-plot-summary-song.html |archive-date=8 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

| story          =  

*[[Vidya Malavade]]

| budget        = {{INR|90&nbsp;million}}<ref>http://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=1173</ref>

| gross          = {{INR|280.4&nbsp;million}}<ref>http://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=1173</ref>

'''''1920: The Evil Returns''''' is a 2012 Indian [[horror film]] written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by [[Bhushan Patel]]. The film is a quasi-sequel to a 2008 film ''[[1920 (film)|1920]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1920evil-returns-will-be-different-from-the-rest-aftab/940345/ |accessdate=19 June 2012 |publisher=[[Indian Express]] |title='1920-Evil Returns' will be different from the rest: Aftab |date=23 April 2012}}</ref> second of the [[1920 (film series)]], and stars [[Aftab Shivdasani]], [[Tia Bajpai]], [[Vidya Malavade]] and [[Sharad Kelkar]] in the lead roles.<ref>{{cite news |title=Aftab Shivdasani signs his first horror movie |url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2011/aug/220811-aftab-shivdasani-1920-evil-returns-bollywood-first-horror-project.htm |accessdate=29 November 2011 |newspaper=[[MiD DAY]] |date=22 August 2011}}</ref> The movie is third in a series of quasi-sequels released under the Bhatt Banner including ''[[Raaz – The Mystery Continues]]'', ''[[Murder 2]]'', ''[[Jism 2]]'', ''[[Jannat 2]]'' and ''[[Raaz 3D]]'' each of which had nothing to do with their respective prequels, but somehow fell in the same genre following a similar story. The trailer was released on 28 September 2012. The film released on 2 November 2012 to mixed reception and fared better at the opening Box Office weekend (122.7&nbsp;million Net.) as compared to any other releases that week except [[Skyfall]] (270&nbsp;million Net.).<ref>http://bollyspice.com/51286/1920-evil-returns-is-a-surprise-hit-at-the-box-office</ref>  U Dinesh Kumar, Professor at [[IIM Bangalore]] and his team worked with Ami Shah of IntelliAssist, the company that carried out the social media marketing for the film, and assessed Internet activities and campaigns with the case study later published by [[Harvard Business Publishing]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hbr.org/product/1920-evil-returns-bollywood-and-social-media-marketing/an/IMB437-PDF-ENG |accessdate=22 March 2014 |publisher=[[Harvard Business Publishing]] |title=1920 Evil Returns – Bollywood and Social Media Marketing |date=1 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/on-campus/iimb-scripts-case-on-digital-promos-of-bollywood-film/article5627380.ece |accessdate=22 March 2014 |publisher=[[The Hindu Business Line]] |title=IIM-B scripts case on digital promos of Bollywood film |date=28 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/news-events/iimb-case-study-bollywood-film-finds-its-way-harvard-business-publishing |accessdate=22 March 2014 |publisher=[[IIM Bangalore]] |title=IIMB case study on the film}}</ref>

==Plot==

Jaidev is insistent on keeping her at home since he feels a connection with her. He even names her Sangeeta. Strange & spooky things start happening with Sangeeta like vomiting iron nails and seeing ghosts in her room. On their way to see a doctor, Sangeeta gets completely possessed by the ghost. To save her, the only person Jaidev can turn to is the cemetery keeper. Slowly Jaidev gets to know that Sangeeta is actually his lost love Smriti. He goes to Smriti's old address to find the truth. He discovers that Karuna had come there before, asking about Smriti. Jaidev returns home and finds Karuna's body hanging in the forest with suicide notes around it. From Karuna's letters, he comes to know that his best friend Amar ([[Sharad Kelkar]]), who was always jealous of Jaidev's success, exploited Karuna to get his revenge. When Amar discovered that Jaidev loved Smriti, he went to Smriti, posing as Jaidev, and took her to his residence in [[Shimla]] to exploit her, but in the process, Amar dies. It is his spirit possessing Smriti.

The cemetery keeper warns Jaidev that the spirit is very vengeful and has to be deceitfully taken to the same place it all happened—Amar's residence in Shimla. Once Smriti touches Amar's corpse, Amar's spirit will have to leave Smriti's body and return to his own body; the corpse can be set on fire then, releasing Amar's spirit from the karmic cycle of life and death. Whilst doing this, Smriti must not know where she is being taken, else the spirit will also know, so Smriti is made unconscious and completely enveloped in a sacred cloth. They reach the designated place, but the cemetery keeper trips and the sacred cloth moves away from Smriti's face, awakening the spirit. The possessed Smriti unleashes mayhem on all four persons, and in a matter of time, everyone except Jaidev is brutally killed by her.

Jaidev is badly injured in the battle of evil versus just, and the spirit in Smriti burns the corpse of Amar, thus forever remaining in her body. Jaidev helplessly pleads with the spirit to kill him since there is no meaning in letting him live if the spirit will take Smriti from him. Amar's spirit refuses, saying that this is exactly what he wanted: for Jaidev to suffer. Jaidev cuts a rope attached to a loft in ceiling; a corpse falls from there, landing on Smriti, and making contact with her touch. It is revealed in a flashback that Jaidev and the group had hidden the real corpse of Amar in the ceiling as precaution. The corpse comes alive as Amar is forced to return to his original body. Enraged, Amar's corpse tries to kill Smriti but Jaidev saves her and sets Amar's corpse on fire thus releasing Amar's spirit from the karmic cycle of life and death. Jaidev marries Smriti and they live happily with each other in the end.

==Cast==

* [[Vidya Malavade]] as Karuna Verma

* Tarakesh Chauhan as Doctor in town hospital

* Naresh Sharma as Driver of Horse Carriage<ref>{{cite web |title=hauhted Cast & Crew |url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/cast/id/547818 |publisher=Bollywood Hungama}}</ref>

*Yogesh Tripathi as Chand

*Falguni Rajani as Landlord of Smriti's house where she was living

| released    = 09 October 2012<ref>{{cite web |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=1QJ52iXBTXQ

| extra_column = Singer(s)  

| title1 = Apna Mujhe Tu Laga

| extra1 = [[Sonu Nigam]]

| title2 = Uska Hi Banana

| extra2 = [[Arijit Singh]]

| title3 = Jaavedaan Hai

| extra3 = [[KK (singer)|KK]] , [[Suzanne D'Mello]]

| title4 = Khud Ko Tere

| extra4 = [[Mahalakshmi Iyer]]

| title5 = Majboor Tu Bhi Kahin  

| extra5 = [[Amit Mishra (singer)|Amit Mishra]]

''1920 – Evil Returns'' had a decent opening weekend where it collected around {{INRConvert|115|m}} nett.<ref name="opening weekend">{{cite web |title=1920 – Evil Returns Has Solid Weekend |url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5055&nCat= |publisher=boxofficeindia |accessdate=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108012934/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5055&nCat=|archive-date=8 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The film had a good first week and collected {{INRConvert|160|m}} nett.<ref name="First week">{{cite web |title=1920 – Evil Returns Week One Territorial Breakdown |url=http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5071&nCat= |publisher=boxofficeindia |accessdate=12 November 2012|archive-url=https://archive.is/20130119203106/http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5071&nCat=|archive-date=19 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> It had collected around {{INRConvert|45.0|m}} nett in its second week taking its total to {{INRConvert|205|m}} nett.<ref name="second week">{{cite web |title=Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Son of Sardaar Score at the Box Office |url=http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5104&nCat= |publisher=boxofficeindia |accessdate=17 November 2012}}</ref> It finished at {{INRConvert|229|m}} in the domestic market.