Rakht
Rakht (English: Blood) is a 2004 Indian supernatural horror film, written and directed by Mahesh V Manjrekar. The film features Bipasha Basu in the lead role and also stars Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Dino Morea, Amrita Arora and Neha Dhupia.
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| Directed by | Mahesh V. Manjrekar |
| Produced by | Sunil Shetty |
| Written by | Mahesh Manjrekar |
| Starring | Bipasha Basu Sanjay Dutt Dino Morea Sunil Shetty Amrita Arora Neha Dhupia |
| Music by | Anand Raj Anand Anand-Milind Naresh Sharma Shaan |
| Cinematography | Vijay Arora |
| Distributed by | Popcorn Motion Pictures |
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Running time | 162 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | 11,200,000 |
The film is an unofficial remake of the 2000 Hollywood thriller, The Gift.
Plot
The story is about a young widow named Drishti Nair (Bipasha Basu). She is a psychic and has the gift of seeing into the future of anybody. After her break up with boyfriend Manav (Abhishek Bachchan) who truly loved her but had to move away to a different city, Drishti moves to a small remote village, where she meets Mohit (Sunil Shetty), an eccentric car mechanic who needs psychiatric treatment due to years of abuse at the hands of his father. Mohit has a crush on Drishti, which Drishti is unaware of. She performs the job of Tarot card reading to locals, one of her customers being Rhea Trehan (Neha Dhupia). Rhea is a young woman who is repeatedly beaten up by her husband Sunny (Dino Morea). Rhea pleads for help to Drishti, when Drishti agrees to help her. Until, Drishti's son coming home from school one day and is harassed by Sunny, who calls Drishti a witch. Sunny tells her son to stay away from his mother.
Sunny also breaks into their house and threatens Drishti to stay out of Rhea's life. When Mohit investigates that Drishti is being troubled by Sunny, the two enter a violent confrontation. After the brawl, Sunny is seen nowhere near Drishti. Drishti is living happily, until one day, the daughter of Mayor Raja Bahadur Singh (Sharat Saxena), Natasha (Amrita Arora), suddenly goes missing. Her fiancé Rahul (Sanjay Dutt) comes to Drishti and asks her for her help to find Natasha. Since Rahul is Drishti's son's school principal, she accepts. Soon enough, Drishti sees a vision of Natasha hung to her death opposite a river. Drishti informs Rahul, and the police finally find Natasha's dead body.
On top of this, it turns out that Sunny owns the river opposite to Natasha's death place. Sunny is then arrested, and the case of Natasha's murder is handed to ACP Ranbir Singh (Rajat Bedi) who does not believe in Drishti's gift, and also believes that Sunny is innocent, and the actual murderer is still free. And finally it is known that Rahul is the real murderer. He says he did it to avenge the loss of his dad in the mayoral election and is about to kill Drishti when Mohit knocks him out from behind. Mohit drives . Drishti to the police station where the inspector reveals Rahul accepted his crime but also says that Mohit committed suicide but according to Drishti he is waiting in the car. When she looks outside, Mohit is not there.
In the end, Drishti is finally reunited with Manav
Cast
- Sanjay Dutt as Principal Rahul
- Suniel Shetty as Mohit
- Bipasha Basu as Drishti Nair
- Dino Morea as Suniel Trehan (Sunny)
- Amrita Arora as Natasha
- Neha Dhupia as Rhea Trehan
- Himanshu Malik as Abhigyan Gupta
- Rajat Bedi as ACP Ranbir Singh
- Sharat Saxena as Mayor Raja Bahadur
- Payal Rohatgi as Tanya
- Shivaji Satham as Drishti's Father
- Shashikala as Drishti's Grandmother
- Sachin Khedekar as Defending Lawyer for Sunny
- Abhishek Bachchan as Manav (guest appearance)
- Yana Gupta (special appearance) in Item "oh what a babe"
Soundtrack
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Ishq Bedardi Ishq Bedardi" | Deepak Sneh | Naresh Sharma | Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik | 5:58 |
| 2. | "Hadd Se Zyaada Sanam" | Deepak Sneh | Naresh Sharma | Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam | 6:35 |
| 3. | "Jannat Hai Ye Zameen" | Anand Raaj Anand | Anand Raaj Anand | Krishna Beura, Swarnalatha | 4:38 |
| 4. | "Sach Hai Sach Hai Ye" | Anand Raaj Anand | Anand Raaj Anand | Krishna Beura | 4:58 |
| 5. | "Kya Maine Socha" | Shaan | Shaan, Blue | Shaan, Blue | 3:28 |
| 6. | "Hadd Se Zyaada Sanam" (sad) | Deepak Sneh | Naresh Sharma | Sonu Nigam | 3:09 |
| 7. | "Quiero" | Salim Binjori | Anand-Milind | Viva | 5:09 |
| 8. | "Oh what a Babe!" | Ajay Jhingran | Shamir Tandon | Sunidhi Chauhan, Shweta Shetty | 5:06 |
| 9. | "Oh what a Babe!" (Club mix) | Ajay Jhingran | Shamir Tandon | Shweta Shetty | 5:14 |
| 10. | "Oh what a Babe!" (Techno mix) | Ajay Jhingran | Shamir Tandon | Ritika Sahani | 4:59 |
| 11. | "Rakht" | Sandip Nath | Shamir Tandon | Aaroh, KK, Mahesh Manjrekar | 5:13 |
Critical reception
The film released on 3 September 2004, and received mixed response from critics. However, managed to do average business at the box office.