Junoon (1992 film)
| Junoon जूनून |
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| Directed by | Mahesh Bhatt |
| Produced by | Mukesh Bhatt |
| Written by |
Robin Bhatt Sujith Sen |
| Based on | An American Werewolf in London by John Landis |
| Starring |
Rahul Roy Avinash Wadhawan Pooja Bhatt |
| Music by |
original songs Nadeem-Shravan Background Score Nadeem-Shravan Vijah Shah |
| Cinematography | Pravin Bhatt |
| Edited by | Dilip Zafar |
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| Distributed by | Vishesh Films |
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Release date
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18 September 1992 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Junoon (Urdu: جنون, English: "Madness" or "Obsession") is a 1992 Hindi horror film directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The film makes use of morphing, a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes (or morphs) one image into another through a seamless transition, to transform human face into tiger and back from tiger to human.
Junoon tells the story of Vikram (Rahul Roy), who goes on a hunting trip with his friend Arun into the forest on a full moon night. While in the forest, Vikram is warned by a tribesman named Bheema (Mushtaq Khan), who tries to persuade him to go back home, stating that the night of the full moon is the tiger's night to hunt. Vikram laughs it off and decided to go after the tiger not believing that this tiger is the cursed tiger. Arun finds something fishy and asks Vikram to go back. Suddenly it starts raining and the duo had to find a place to stay. Some strange voices were heard by the duo and they find the voices were coming from a den but as the duo have to find a place to stay in they decided to enter the den. Within the den Arun discovers writings on the walls in Sanskrit. These writings describe the tale of a king who could not have a child. One day a tantric told him if he caught a pair of tigers who were in love, and on a full moon night, to kill one tiger and drink his blood, thereby allowing the king to have a child. The king did everything he was told, but when he killed one tiger, the surviving mate cursed him. The curse transformed the king into a tiger each full moon night and he hunted man. The curse also entailed that anybody who killed the king when he was in the tiger's form would in turn get cursed and so the curse would carry on forever. Vikram berates his friend for believing an age-old myth and they are then attacked by the cursed tiger. Vikram tries to shoot the tiger but he missed the shot and Arun is killed on the spot by the tiger and Vikram became very scared. The shot fired by Vikram hits the fire lamp and a chain of fire was built in the den, the tiger hides due to this but the tiger roars from somewhere. Vikram was unable to find the tiger. Scared Vikram fired shots everywhere in the den with the hope that the tiger will run away but the tiger attacks Vikram and Vikram fell in the ring of fire. The tiger did not again attack Vikram as tigers are afraid of fire and tiger makes a disappearing act.
The shots fired by Vikram are heard by Harry (Tom Alter) and the Forest Officer Bhaskar Inamdar (Homi Wadia) who rush to the spot. There they find Bheema attacking Vikram to kill him. He claims that Vikram has gotten cursed and if he is killed before the curse reaches him it will save him from a cursed life. Harry and Bhaskar however transfer Vikram to a hospital in an attempt to save his life.
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