Raat (film)

Raat
Raatri
Release poster in Hindi
Directed byRam Gopal Varma
Written byRam Gopal Varma
Uttej (Telugu dialogues)
Produced byRam Gopal Varma
Boney Kapoor (Presenter)
StarringRevathi
CinematographyTeja
Edited byShankar
Music byMani Sharma
Production
company
Varma Creations
Release date
  • 7 February 1992 (1992-02-07)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesHindi
Telugu

Raat in Hindi or Raatri (transl. Night) in Telugu is a 1992 Indian supernatural horror film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film is shot simultaneously in Hindi and Telugu languages, and stars Revathi.[1][2][3][4] The music was composed by Mani Sharma. It is his debut film as music director. Raat was noted as an effort to bring horror films into mainstream Hindi cinema.[5][6]

This was the final film released in Hindi, which was shot using 70mm negative. The film was critically acclaimed.

  1. ^ Paunksnis, Šarūnas (2019). Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-909693-0.
  2. ^ "Spookiest of them all". The Hindu. 7 March 2013. Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  3. ^ Saravanan, T. (21 February 2014). "Following RGV". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  4. ^ Gopal, Sangita (2012). Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema. University of Chicago Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-226-30427-4.
  5. ^ Dhusiya, Mithuraaj (2017). Indian Horror Cinema: (En)gendering the Monstrous. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-38648-7.
  6. ^ Moreland, Sean; Pervez, Summer (29 March 2013). "Acts of Re-Possession: Bollywood's Re- Inventions of the Occult Possession Film" (PDF). In Ahmad, Aalya; Moreland, Sean (eds.). Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. McFarland. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-7864-9260-2.