Raaz

Director: Bhatt Brothers
Music: Nadeem Shravan
Cast: Bipasha Basu, Dino Moreo, Malini Sharma and Ashutosh Rana


It has been a long time since we had a good Horror flick made in Bollywood. Taking inspiration from movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer, What Lies Beneath and Hitchcock movie, this movie turns out to be one of the better-made movies of 2002.

Mahesh Bhatt who is credited with the unique distinction of working with the maximum number of new comers whether actors, music-directors, songwriters gets the best out of Dino and Bipasha.

Not at all confusing as the movie revolves with few characters, the continuity of the movie is brilliant to keep you gripping throughout the movie.

The story is about a young troubled couple Sanjana Dhanraj (Bipasha Basu) and Aditya Dhanraj (Dino Morea). The couple is almost on the verge of a divorce when they decide to take time out and spend more time with each other in their Ooty bungalow. Ooty, however turns to be a nightmare for Sanajana as she can feel a spirit calling her and later she even sees the spirit's face. Aditya does not believe her, but her friend based in Ooty does, who introduces her to Prof. Agni Swaroop who is a Professor of supernatural sciences, who also unconditionally believes in spirits. He is passionate towards exploring truth beyond science.

The rest is to be seen in the film. The ambience for creating horror has been aptly created to make the movie interesting. Some of the scenes are shot amazingly while there are few ones which have the audience in splits.

Bipasha rocks in this movie, brilliant acting - she manages her role very well. Dino too is good while Ashutosh once again gives a splendid performance.

Malini Sharma the girl from the "Kya Soorat Hai" video too is impressive. She will be interesting to watch for in the future.

The music score done by Raju Rao of this movie is intelligent. Some songs are great while other songs in this movie are average, nothing that you will hum after you are out of the movie hall except for two or three tracks.

Overall a nice flick and enjoyable viewing.