Phobia (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Pavan Kirpalani |
| Produced by | Viki Rajani |
| Written by | Pavan Kirpalani Pooja Ladha Surti Arun Sukumar |
| Screenplay by | Pavan Kirpalani Pooja Ladha Surti Arun Sukumar |
| Starring | See below |
| Music by | Daniel George Background Score: Karan Gaur |
| Cinematography | Jayakrishna Gummadi |
| Edited by | Pooja Ladha Surti |
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| Distributed by | Pixel Digital Studios |
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99 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹32.5 million (US$480,000) |
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| Released | 18 May 2016 |
| Recorded | 2016 |
| Length | 2:14 |
| Label | Eros Now |
Phobia is a 2016 Indian psychological thriller film, directed by Pavan Kirpalani and produced by Viki Rajani. The film stars Radhika Apte in the leading role as Mehak, an artist suffering from severe agoraphobia. Produced jointly by Eros International and Next Gen Films, it released on 27 May 2016.
Development began in 2015, when Rajani signed Radhika Apte for a film to be made under his banner. Rajani worked on the script, with principal photography taking place in Mumbai. The film features music by Daniel B George. The film features only one song. The lyrics for song 'Roke na ruke' were written by Jay Shankar Prasad and sung by Sakina Khan and Sidharth Basrur. Phobia was released on 27 May 2016 to positive response, with praise centered on Radhika Apte's performance. Apart from her performance, the film's other production elements and picturisation, background score and special effect works were also praised by the critics and audience.
Mehak Deo (Radhika Apte) is a highly talented artist. She meets with an unfortunate mishap that traumatizes her and she develops agoraphobia, a phobia where the individual is paranoid about being in public places. Mehak’s sister Anusha (Nivedita Bhattacharya) is exhausted with her eccentric behavior, especially when it starts impacting her own 5 year old son.
Shaan (Satyadeep Mishra), a close friend, takes Mehak to a friend’s house, on the assumption that it might help her to live alone for a while. At the new apartment, Mehak befriends Nikki (Yashaswini Dayama), a college-going girl who lives in the neighbourhood. Her other neighbour Manu (Ankur Vikal) is working on anger management issues and is part of a community laughter club.
Manu is devastated because his girlfriend Jiah Khurana (Amrit Bagchi) left him. Jiah earlier lived in Mehak’s new apartment and disappeared without a trace without paying rent and not even claiming her advance deposit back. A diary belonging to Jiah stokes Mehek’s imagination and it is only a matter of time before she is convinced that a malevolent spirit is sharing her space. Soon Mehak makes some pretty strong accusations against Manu and what follows is a series of misfortunes.
In the end it seems like the visions she had were actually of her own future rather than that of Jiah. This is due to the fact that Jiah returns suddenly and makes everyone stunned, right from Mehak, Nikki to Shaan. This washes out the idea that Jiah was murdered by Mannu, which Mehak was convinced. It is revealed that Mehak was capable of having glimpses of her own future, as is indicated by her seeing smoke coming out of the cab (which is actually the pepper spray that she uses on the cab driver later) and her painting showing many hands approaching to help (the climax scene of the movie when an injured Mehak overcomes her fear and goes out in the open).
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