Darna Mana Hai (English: Fear is Forbidden) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language anthology horror film. The film consists of six different short stories. It stars Nana Patekar, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Shilpa Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Isha Koppikar, Saif Ali Khan, Sohail Khan, among many others. Upon release it met with extremely negative response, despite that it was a cult classic movie.[2][3][4][5] Later in 2006 Ram Gopal Varma, the producer, spawned Darna Zaroori Hai, a sequel with a different ensemble cast, six new cinematographers, seven different directors. Only Rajpal Yadav and director Prawaal Raman were back from the previous installment. Darna Mana Hai has been dubbed and released in Telugu with the same title.[6][7]
Darna Mana Hai interweaves six stories into one film. Seven friends get stuck in the middle of a forest when their car breaks down, and all of them except Vikas find refuge in an abandoned house. To keep each other amused, they tell each other horror and supernatural stories that they have heard over a bonfire.
After this story, a second friend in the group around the bonfire goes to the car looking for a blanket. When she leaves, the body of the first girl who left the bonfire is shown. The second girl is chased around the forest, caught and stabbed by an unseen assailant.
The third story is that of a school teacher named Dayashankar Pandey. He confronts a student named Pramila, who is always punished for not completing her homework. One day, when Pandey asks Pramila to hold out her hand for punishment (assuming that she did not do her homework), Pramila produces her homework instead. However, her homework elicits a strange reaction from Pandey. Following this, the incident repeats itself everyday, making Pandey increasingly anxious. Upon a suggestion from a coworker that she might be receiving help from her parents or a tutor, Pandey calls upon Pramila's mother. She denies helping her daughter. He then asks about the Om sign that Pramila draws on every page of her homework. The mother shrugs it off, which forces Pandey to drop the topic. Later, Pandey decides to go to Pramila's house. He confronts Pramila's mother and tells her that he had an intelligent friend, Varun, who died when he fell off a building while flying kite with him (In reality, he had pushed Varun off the building in jealousy) and that he thinks Pramila is a reincarnation of his friend. He says that Varun used to draw the Om sign to prove it. He realizes that he is deranging and leaves apologizing. On the way back home, he is confronted by Varun's spirit, who warns him, "You are not insane yet. But you will be." By the following morning, Pandey loses his sanity, scribbling basic mathematics on the road with cars driving.
After this story is told, another friend in the group leaves the bonfire, looking for the girls who had left them before. He reaches the car to discover Vikas killed by the knife that he had in his hand. When he attempts to go back to warn his friends, he is also confronted by the mysterious attacker.
The fourth story focuses on a housewife named Gayatri. She goes to market and comes across a vendor, who is selling apples for Rs. 20 while everyone else is selling apples at Rs. 60. She buys the apples from the vendor, but his demeanour unsettles her. After returning home, she throws away the apples, but they inexplicably reappear inside the fridge. Gayatri's husband Sanjay eats one of the apples and finds it very tasty while watching a cricket match on tv. She worries that something might happen to Sanjay after eating the apples, as she harbours suspicions about the vendor. The next morning, when Gayatri wakes up, she is shocked to find an apple next to her instead of her husband. She runs outside to inform the police but they became into an apple and is shocked and surprised to see apples everywhere on the ground, seemingly that every person who has eaten an apple has transformed into one. The vendor then appears with an evil look, offering Gayatri his last apple for free.
Back in real time, at the end of the fifth story, only two friends are left, as none of the five have returned. The two of them start talking about other things when a bespectacled youth suddenly appears, sitting at a corner. The strange man approaches the two and tells them that he has heard the five stories. He asks the boy out of the two friends to tell a story, who narrates the following.
A group of seven friends are travelling one night when their car breaks down. They seek shelter under a ruined shack and start telling stories to each other to kill time. After each story, one friend in the group (supposedly frightened) goes out into the forest and gets killed, one by one, until only two are left. The two friends that are left stop telling stories to each other and the killer, who is now bored, comes out to them. The killer appears to be the very same strange man that is narrating this story. Labelling himself a genius, he says that his only reason for the murders is because he cannot stand fear as it blocks progress, and he would kill anyone who is scared.
The man then fatally stabs the boy. The girl, Shruti, runs into the forest as fast as she can, but the killer catches up to her and stabs her. She manages to bludgeon the man to death before fainting.
Star wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan reached Mumbai Indians' team hotel on Wednesday, March 13 ahead of the start of the new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The 25-year-old has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, and was recently axed by the BCCI from the central contracts list. Kishan had pulled out of the Test team last December in South Africa, citing personal reasons. The player was then overlooked for selection by the management for the Afghanistan T20Is and the England Test series.
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