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Kaun? is a indian film of genre Thriller directed by Ram Gopal Varma with Urmila Matondkar
Kaun? (1999)
कौन
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Add to a movie listLength 1h30
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
OriginInde
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Psychologie, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Bollywood
Rating77%
Kaun? (Hindi: कौन, English: Who's There?) is a 1999 Indian psychological thriller film directed by Ram Gopal Verma, written by Anurag Kashyap, and starring Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpai and Sushant Singh.
The film features a man claiming to be a white collar worker (Bajpai) and another man claiming to be a police inspector (Singh), both attempting to get into the house of a young woman (Matondkar). The film is considered to be one of the best collaborations between Ram Gopal Varma and Urmila Matondkar and is touted to be one of the best thriller's of Indian cinema. The film has since received cult status, and became a sleeper hit.
Synopsis
A young woman (Urmila Matondkar), home alone, is watching the news of a serial killer on television when the doorbell rings. The woman sees through the peephole that it is a young man, who later identifies himself as Sameer A. Purnavale (Manoj Bajpai), claiming to be a business partner of Mr. Malhotra. She is reluctant to open the door, due to the news broadcast of a killer on the loose. The woman claims that the house doesn't belong to Mr. Malhotra but to Mr. Gupta. However the man believing that there has been a mix up, persistently keeps ringing the doorbell even after the woman tells him that she won't let him in. To scare him away the woman lies and tells the man that her husband is sleeping upstairs. The man then claims that he hears a noise upstairs so that if her husband is awake can he talk to him. Upon hearing this and a subsequent noise from within the house, the woman is spooked and runs outside.Actors
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