Rakht

Rakht
File:Rakht movieposter.jpg Movie poster
रक्त
Directed by	Mahesh 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
Release dates	3 September 2004 (2004-09-03)
Running time	162 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	11,200,000

Rakht (English: Blood) is a 2004 Indian supernatural horror film, written and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film features Bipasha Basu in the lead role and also stars Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Dino Morea, Amrita Arora and Neha Dhupia.

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 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. As a result, they must work together and figure out who is behind Natasha's murder and why.

Cast

• Bipasha Basu as Drishti Nair
• Sanjay Dutt as Principal Rahul
• Dino Morea as Sunil (Sunny)
• Sunil Shetty as Mohit
• Amrita Arora as Natasha
• Neha Dhupia as Rhea Trehan
• Himanshu Malik as Abhi 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 in a Special Appearance in Item song "oh what a babe"

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.

External links

• Rakht at IMDb