Junoon (1992 film)

"Junoon" (English: "Madness" or "Obsession") is a 1992 Hindi horror film directed by Mahesh Bhatt.

Cast

*Rahul Roy - Vikram
*Pooja Bhatt - Dr. Nita
*Avinash Wadhawan - Ravi
*Tom Alter - Priest
*Avtaar Gill
*Rakesh Bedi
*Roma Manik - (Rahul Roy's dance partner in song 'O Meri Dil Ruba')

Plot summary

"Junoon" tells the story of Vikram (Roy), who nearly gets killed by a cursed tiger when he and his friend go for a hunting spree in the jungle. His friend is killed on the spot by the tiger, but Vikram manages to shoot the beast. Still, it wounds him badly before it dies.

In the hospital Vikram's hopes of survival are minimal, but the spirit of the tiger gets into Vikram. Vikram is treated by Dr Nita (Bhatt) and he begins to like her, but as the days go by Vikram realizes that there something evil in him. His dead friend's spirit tells him about the cursed tiger and that he himself will become the same beast on the upcoming full moon and every full moon thereafter. His friend even tells Vikram to kill himself but Vikram refuses, saying that he will accept whatever his future has in store for him.

Vikram's liking for Dr Nita turns into an obsession (junoon) after he comes to know that she is in love with an up and coming singer, Ravi (Wadhawan). The evil in Vikram comes forward and he plots to separate Nita and Ravi. Then he consoles and convinces Nita's father to allow him to marry Nita. The night of their marriage is the night of the full moon, and that night Vikram transforms into a tiger in the hotel and kills an unknown woman. The following nights Vikram's hunting spree continues as he kills more people after transforming into a tiger.

His wife Nita finds something fishy going on as every night Vikram leaves the house on some pretext or other, and she manages to keep him at home. Vikram transforms into a tiger in front of her and tries to kill her, but she manages to escape because of Ravi, a villager from the jungle where the beast came from and a policeman who has doubts about Vikram's strange behavior. But both the villager and the policeman are killed trying to save Nita.

A priest (Alter) informs Ravi and Nita that there is a dagger in one specific cave which can actually kill Vikram because trying to kill him in any other way would mean taking the curse upon oneself. Ravi and Nita find the dagger and after a long battle with Vikram in the cave manage to slay him and end the curse.

*TRIVIA-This movie is loosely based on "An American werewolf in London" directed by famous horror movie director 'John Landis'.

External links

*imdb title|id=0156658|Junoon