Phoonk
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Promotional poster
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| Directed by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Produced by | Azam Khan Parvez Damania |
| Written by | Milind Gadagkar |
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Sudeep Amruta Khanvilkar Ahsaas Channa Ashwini Kalsekar Zakir Hussain |
| Music by | Bapi-Tutul |
| Cinematography | Savita Singh |
| Edited by | Amit Parmar Nipun Gupta |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹3 crore (US$450,000) |
| Box office | ₹33 lakh (US$49,000) |
Phoonk (English:Puff) is a 2008 Indian horror film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and produced by Praveen Nischol starring Sudeep. The film based on superstition and black magic. It was declared a blockbuster at the box office by several media outlets. Verma derived the idea for the film from a Hindi news channel which telecasts stories on Black magic. A prize of ₹5 lakh (US$7,400) was announced for those who will watch the film alone in a theatre. The storyline of Phoonk is thematically similar to Telugu thriller novel Tulasi Dalam by Yandamuri Veerendranath. It was remade in Telugu as Raksha. The film was dubbed in Tamil as Bommayi. The film was followed by a sequel, Phoonk 2, in 2010.
Phoonk is based upon the concept of black magic. Civil engineer and atheist Rajiv (Sudeep) lives in Mumbai with his wife Aarti (Amruta Khanvilkar) two kids, Raksha (Ahsaas Channa) and Rohan (Shrey Bawa), Rajiv's mother and the housemaid Laxmi(Anu Ansari). Rajiv's most trusted colleagues are Anshuman (Kenny Desai) and Madhu (Ashwini Kalsekar), whom everyone, including Rajiv's friend Vinay and Raksha feel are not normal. During a party at his house, when he comes to know that the husband and wife duo have cheated him on a valuable contract for an IT firm in Delhi, Rajiv fires both of them after insulting them both. Humiliated and angry at this, the two of them decide to take revenge on Rajiv. Madhu notes that Rajiv is very fond of Raksha.
Soon a series of strange events start to take place in and around Rajiv's house. Mandar (Bharat Kaul), who is appointed to take the place of Madhu and Anshuman is killed at the construction site mysteriously. Raksha starts to talk and behave weirdly, much to the shock of everyone. Doctors are called for, but the strange behavior continues, with Raksha flying in the air, talking in a manly voice, acting in pain. The superstitious and religious grandmother repeatedly says that someone is using Black Magic on Raksha, but Rajiv and the doctors refuse to believe any of it.
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