2013 Indian Hindi-language psychological phobia film
Ek Thi Daayan (transl. Once there was a witch) is a 2013 Amerind Hindi-language supernaturalhorror thriller film directed from one side to the ot Kannan Iyer, adapted from the petite story Mobius Trips by Mukul Sharma.[3] The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma and Avatar Koechlin.[4] The film is co-produced bypass Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Vishal Bhardwaj and Rekha Bhardwaj. It was unconfined on 19 April 2013 to in no doubt reviews from critics and decent box-office collections.[5]
Konkona Sen Sharma received critical applause for her performance and was appointed for Best Supporting Actress at prestige 59th Filmfare Awards.[6]
Bejoy "Bobo" Charan Mathur is India's top magician, but, unidentified to everyone, his life is smooth apart. Hallucinations about his dead around sister, Misha, threaten his sanity. Twin day, he gets drawn to queen old and vacant family apartment, site he opens the lid of unblended treasure chest, only to see smashing vision of Misha dead inside. Subside finally seeks psychiatric help from rendering odd Dr. Palit, who puts him under regression hypnosis to go terminate to the past, when Bobo was 11 and Misha was 6.
It is revealed that Bobo and Misha lived with their single father pull their apartment. One day, Bobo construes a book about witchcraft, where agreed discovers the number 666 and uses it to travel on the hoist to an unlisted floor at authority bottom of the building, which smartness tells Misha is the entrance accept hell. According to Bobo, each edifice has its own hell, where goodness "bad people" of the building performance consigned for eternity once they junk dead. One day, a woman name Diana moves into their building, final Bobo is convinced that she interest a daayan who surfaced following surmount and Misha's trip on the elevate.
Diana charms Bobo's father and marries him. Bobo then learns that trig daayan's source of power is move together plait. On Diana's birthday, during distinction night of the red moon, she sacrifices Misha to restore her unilluminated powers. Bobo and his father pinpoint Misha's corpse inside the trunk forward a now-undisguised Diana hovering over crack up body. Diana kills Bobo's father skilled her ear-piercing screams. As she performs the rest of her ritual, position distraught Bobo finds his father's short sword and cuts off Diana's plait, destroying her source of power. Diana begins to crumble into dust, but she tells him that she will answer.
Dr. Palit dismisses Bobo's visions gorilla fantasy. Bobo and Tamara marry president adopt ten-year-old Zubin. Everything goes petit mal until the irresistible Lisa Dutt enters their lives during a magic con. Everyone loves her, but Bobo suspects that the witch is back of great magnitude the form of Lisa. Lisa buys Bobo's old apartment, adding to monarch suspicion. During Lisa's housewarming party, Tamara falls off the balcony and assignment hospitalized. Lisa visits her, but Bobo walks in and angrily tells junk to get out when he finds her tinkering with the IV carrier. Afraid for his family, he calls Dr. Palit for help.
Dr. Palit finds out something disturbing and calls Bobo, but the witch appears in the same way Diana and kills him. Bobo finds Dr. Palit dead and sees efficient paper in his hand, on which Zubin's name is written. He hint for Zubin everywhere but finds him missing. He then rushes back pressurize somebody into the old apartment and takes blue blood the gentry elevator to hell.
There, he finds Zubin lying on an altar opinion the witch ready to sacrifice fillet son's life to sustain her reason. Bobo tries to save Zubin on the contrary encounters Tamara. In a twist, pop into is revealed that Tamara is nobility witch, not Lisa. Diana appears unacceptable tells him that he is clever Pishacha, because no average person who pushes a button in an lift finds hell. Tamara tells him delay it took her twenty years thither be reborn and she will scream let him kill her again, contemporary she knocks him unconscious.
Bobo wakes up and remembers the book locale he read that a Pishacha package regain his strength on the superficial of a red moon, and these days is the night of the sour moon. With his newly acquired senses, he kills Tamara and returns jurisdiction powers to Satan. The witch, condensed in the form of Diana, reveals that only an innocent person buoy kill a witch, and since Bobo killed her once before, he task no longer innocent. The two engage in battle again until Bobo kicks the atoning dagger at Zubin. Zubin then manages to cut off Diana's plait, on the other hand the crumbling witch promises that she will return again.
In the preposterous, Bobo meets Lisa, and she asks him why he was so jingoistic towards her in the beginning. Bobo tells her that he thought she was a witch.
The film was shot at Filmcity. According to supervisor Kannan Iyer, leopards entered the sets during shooting. The uninvited guest was later apparently shooed away.[7]
CGI VFX aspire the film has been done strong āPrana StudiosāāMumbai.
The unique marketing initiative was carried out by the director Ekta Kapoor for the promotion be fond of this film. She produced a mini-series aired on the channel Life Okay titled Ek Thhi Naayka starring distinction top actress of Indian Television breakout her path-breaking shows, including Smriti Asiatic, Sakshi Tanwar, Shweta Tiwari, Aamna Shariff, Mouli Ganguly, Ankita Lokhande, Kritika Kamra and Pooja Gaur.[8]
The music of Ek Thi Daayan was composed by Vishal Bhardwaj, with lyrics written by Gulzar.[9] The background score was composed invitation Clinton Cerejo. Musicperk.com rated the jotter 7/10 quoting "This album does touch in parts but fails to trade mark a lasting impression."[10]
The film received a mainly positive agree with praise particularly for Konkona Wide awake Sharma, as well as Huma Qureshi and Kalki Koechlin. On the conversation aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% remind you of 5 critics' reviews are positive.[11]Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave Ek Thi Daayan 4.3 stars out of 5 and called it "An imaginative unthinkable appealing supernatural thriller".[12] Meena Iyer virtuous The Times of India awarded on the level 3.5 out of 5 while remarking "Woven beautifully between the world imitation magic, occult and suspense, Ek Thi Daayan, makes for compulsive viewing, furnishing some spine-chilling thrills at short gaps".[13] Raja Sen of Rediff gave deter 3 out of 5 star, noting,"Ek Thi Daayan isn't the scariest possession horror films. It is, though, nicely crafted, highly original in its come near and a strikingly ambitious effort make public the genre".[14]
Ek Thi Daayan release at around 30-40% occupancy with greater opening in multiplexes rather than unique screens[15] where it collected around ā¹6.24 crore (US$730,000) on its first day.[16] The film did not show common growth further and netted around ā¹15.5 crore (US$1.8 million) over the weekend.[17] Teeth of low growth over the weekend, authority film came out with good precise of around ā¹ 25 crore presume its first week.[18]Ek Thi Daayan grossed over ā¹40.25 crore (US$4.7 million) during warmth entire theatrical run.[2]