Apart from the underworld, Ram Gopal Varma's fascination with the unknown is legendary. If Godfather inspired all his crime capers, The Exorcist breathes through each of his horrors.
And so you have possessed young women with dilated pupils shrieking in a eerie, unisex baritone and committing one heinous crime after another. It happened with Revathy in Raat and Urmila Matondkar in Bhoot. Even his recent Phoonk, a black magic story could not resist the temptation of casting its impressionable star in a manic spirit's possession.
Other filmmakers like Vikram Bhatt and Priyadarshan, too, dabbled with the idea of a restless soul in an unsuspecting body with 1920 and Bhool Bhulaiyaa. While the latter mixes a lot of genres -- paranormal, psychological disorder, and reincarnation to keep its viewer confused, Bhatt is occupied with lending his garish, inspired tale a wannabe gothic-Victorian setting, which is neither bizarre nor impressive. Both films have one thing in common -- the heroine (Vidya Balan, Adah Sharma) is made to look extraordinarily ghastly to induce the mandatory brrrrs.
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