This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Ek Thi Daayan gives a very fresh perspective to horror films. It is an enriching combination of good story telling and ethnic grandmother’s witch tales which is woven beautifully between the world of magic, suspense, thriller, romance, and occult. It was cast on 18 April 2013. It is been rated 5.7/10 on IMDb(Internet movie database) and 3.5/5 on Times of India. It has been directed by Kannan Iyer.
This film starts with the voice of dramatic woman searching for someone. The story revolves around Bobo, a great magician who is secretly scared by persistent hallucinations of his dead sister Misha and is forced to seek psychiatric help from Dr.Palit, who puts him under regression hypnosis to go back to the past, when Bobo was 11 and Misha was 6.
Boho and Misha lived with his single father in an apartment. Bobo reads a book about witchcraft, from which he discovers the number 666 and uses it to travel on the elevator to an unlisted floor at the bottom of the building, which he tells Misha is the entrance to hell. According to Bobo, each building has its own hell, where the "bad people" of the building are consigned for eternity once they are dead. A woman named Diana moves in and Bobo is convinced that she is a witch (Daayan) and surfaced following his and Misha's trip on the elevator.
Diana charms Bobo's father and marries him. Bobo learns that the source of the power of a witch is her plait. On Diana's birthday, during the night of the red moon, she sacrifices Misha in order to restore her dark powers. Bobo and his father discover Misha dead inside the trunk and a now-undisguised Diana hovering over her body. Diana kills Bobo's father with her ear-piercing screams. As she performs the rest of her ritual, the distraught Bobo finds his father's dagger and cuts off Diana's plait, destroying her source of power. Diana begins to crumble into dust, but says that she will return for Bobo.
Dr. Palit dismisses Bobo's visions as fantasy. Bobo and Tamara marry and adopt ten-year-old Zubin. Everything goes well till Lisa Dutt enters their lives during a magic show. Everyone loves her, but Bobo suspects that the witch is back in the form of Lisa. Lisa buys Bobo's old apartment, adding to his suspicion. During Lisa's housewarming party, Tamara falls off the balcony and is hospitalized. Lisa visits her, but Bobo walks in and angrily tells her to get out. Afraid for his family, he calls Dr. Palit for help.
Dr. Palit finds out something disturbing and calls Bobo, but the witch appears as Diana and kills him. Bobo finds Dr. Palit dead and sees a paper in his hand, on which Zubin's name is written. He looks for Zubin everywhere, but finds him missing. He then rushes back to the old apartment and takes the elevator to hell.
There, he finds Zubin lying on an altar and the witch ready to sacrifice his son's life to sustain her powers. Bobo tries to save Zubin, but encounters Tamara. In a twist, it is revealed that Tamara is the witch, not Lisa. Diana appears and tells him that he himself is a Pishacha, as not just anyone merely pushes buttons in an elevator and finds hell. Tamara tells him that it took her twenty years to be reborn and she will not let him kill her again, and knocks him unconscious.
Bobo wakes up and remembers the book, where he read that a Pishacha can regain his strength as it is the night of the red moon. With his acquired powers, he kills Tamara and returns his powers to Satan. The witch, now appearing as Diana, reveals that only the innocent can kill a witch, and since Bobo killed her once before, he is no longer innocent. The two fight again until Bobo kicks the sacrificial dagger to Zubin. Zubin is able to cut off Diana's plait, but the crumbling witch promises that she will return again.
In the end, Bobo meets Lisa and apologies for his mistake of being aggressive with her.
-Varsha(14)
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