Simran (Aditi Govitrikar) is persuaded by her boyfriend Sameer (Amar
Upadhyaya), her cousin Kaajal (Divya Palat) and Kajaal's boyfriend Kunal
(Apoorva Agnihotri) - who also happens to be Sameer's best friend - to
take part in a beauty contest ... which she wins hands down.
But there's Ajit (Irfan Khan), brother of model Tanya (Deeksha) - who
also took part in the contest but tried to take her life when she lost to
Simran -, and Ajit tried to dissuade Simran from even participating in the
contest, threatening to kill her as a result. And after the contest is
won, Ajit pays Simran a visit to do just that, but somehow, Simran and
Kaajal manage to insead kill him in self defense. However, later when the
boys join them and see what they've done, they decide not to report the
matter to the police but instead hide the dead body in the dirty pool at
the place Kajaal and Simran are living at.
A few days later, inspector Khanna (Gulshan Groer), who has just
learned that Ajit is missing, grows suspicous about the pool and has it
drained of water ... but wouldn't you know it, Ajit is not in it anymore.
Instead he seems to be among the living again, ever so often threatening
Simran*'s life when nobody else is watching ...
Eventually, Vikram (Mukesh Tiwari), Kajaal's father's (Prem Chopra)
right-hand man, claims he has Ajit's (dead) body and tries to blackmail
our young foursome ... but only hours later, Vikram is killed by a
seemingly very live Ajit ...
Everything eventually leads to the (expected) showdown of Sameer and
Simran against Ajit, in a studio full of mannequins, and suddenly, Sameer
and Simran stumble upon Ajit's corpse ... so who's the live Ajit ?
Why, it's Kunal, who thinks he and his uncle Tom (Tom Alter) have been
cheated out of a considerable sum of money by Simran's deceased father and
now want their revenge, and somehow get their hands on the money after
all. At the end, Kunal is shot by the police, just before he can kill
Sameer, but still, Sameer, Simran and Kaajal have lost a friend and it all
ends in tears ...
In the 1970's and esepcially the 80's, the Ramsay family was the main
producer of Hindi-horror. In the 1990's however, the horror-trend died
down, and it took until the early 2000's and the second coming of the
slasher film for Shyam Ramsay, one of the family's most prolific
directors, to turn out another genre movie. Dhund: The Fog however
has rather little to do with the Ramsays' earlier enjoyable trash flicks,
instead it's a routine and very slick serialkiller movie that features a
few plottwists (and resulting plotholes) too many to stay totally
believable while at the same time remaining utterly predictable.
That's not to say that Dhund: The Fog is necessarily a bad
movie, especially if you are into the slasher genre, it's just one of
those average films you have forgotten in about as much time as it took
for the film to watch (2 and a half hours).
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