Raaz - The Mystery Continues

Raaz: The Mystery Continues
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Directed by	Mohit Suri
Produced by	Mahesh Bhatt (Presenter) Mukesh Bhatt
Written by	Shagufta Rafiq (Screenplay & Dialogue)
Story by	Mohit Suri
Starring	Emraan Hashmi Kangana Ranaut Adhyayan Suman
Music by	Songs: Raju Singh Toshi-Sharib Gourov Dasgupta, Pranay.M.Rijia Background Score: Raju Singh
Cinematography	Ravi Walia
Edited by	Deven Murudeshwar
Production company	Vishesh Films
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
Release date	23 January 2009 (2009-01-23)
Running time	151 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹150 million (US$2.2 million)
Box office	₹345.0 million (US$5.1 million)

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Raaz: The Mystery Continues, shortened as RTMC, (Hindi: राज़, English: Secret: The Mystery Continues) is 2009 Indian supernatural horror film directed by Mohit Suri and starring Emraan Hashmi and Kangana Ranaut. The film is the second film in the Raaz series, but story-wise, it is not a direct sequel to the 2002 film Raaz. The film deals with issues of the "evil within" the human psyche and how it manifests itself. It is based on the myths and superstitions that are still widely existent in the contemporary Indian society. The film attempts to challenge one’s beliefs about paranormal phenomena. Emraan Hashmi plays a painter, named Prithvi, who has an extraordinary gift, the ability to paint the future. His paintings tell Nandita's (Kangana Ranaut) future.

The film opened to theaters on 23 January 2009. It received generally mixed reviews and became a "semi hit" at the box office. A third installment in the Raaz series was released in 2013 with Emraan Hashmi in the lead. Some of the scenes of the movie were similar to those of the Hollywood movies The Ring 2 and Gothika. It was first in a series of quasi-sequels released under the Bhatt Banner including Murder 2, Jannat 2, Jism 2, Raaz 3D and 1920: Evil Returns, each of which had nothing to do with their respective prequels, but somehow fell in the same genre following a similar story.

The story starts with an American visiting the Kalindi Temple at night. There he sees the priest of the temple in a horrific state – he had slit his body with a scythe and had written 'Om' on his body. The man, horrified by what he is seeing, flees from there. The story then shifts to a model in her early 20s, Nandita (Kangana Ranaut) who is in love with Yash, (Adhyayan Suman) a director and host of the reality show "Andhvishwas" a show dealing with various superstitions of ghosts and tantric voodoos. Yash gifts Nandita an apartment where they start living and they love each other, in the meantime Nandita gets pregnant.