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'''''1920: Evil Returns''''' is a [[Bollywood]] [[horror film]] written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by [[Bhushan Patel]]. The film is a quasi-sequel to a 2008 film ''[[1920 (film)|1920]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1920evil-returns-will-be-different-from-the-rest-aftab/940345/ |accessdate=19 June 2012|publisher=[[Indian Express]] |title='1920-Evil Returns' will be different from the rest: Aftab |date=23 April 2012}}</ref> and stars [[Aftab Shivdasani]], [[Tia Bajpai]], [[Vidya Malvade]] and [[Sagar Saikia]] in the lead roles.<ref>{{cite news|title=Aftab Shivdasani signs his first horror movie|url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2011/aug/220811-aftab-shivdasani-1920-evil-returns-bollywood-first-horror-project.htm|accessdate=29 November 2011|newspaper=[[MiD DAY]]|date=22 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/1920-evil-returns-movie-review-whats-the-point/ | title = 1920 Evil Returns movie review | author = Bollywood Life | accessdate = 2 November 2012 }}</ref> The movie is third in a series of quasi-sequels released under the Bhatt Banner including ''[[Raaz – The Mystery Continues]]'', ''[[Murder 2]]'', ''[[Jism 2]]'', ''[[Jannat 2]]'' and ''[[Raaz 3D]]'' each of which had nothing to do with their respective prequels, but somehow fell in the same genre following a similar story. The trailer was released on 28 September 2012. The film released on 2 November 2012 to mixed reception and fared better at the opening Box Office weekend (122.7&nbsp;million Net.) as compared to any other releases that week except [[Skyfall]] (270&nbsp;million Net.).<ref>http://bollyspice.com/51286/1920-evil-returns-is-a-surprise-hit-at-the-box-office</ref> Boxofficeindia declared the film as a ''hit'' after its two-week run.<ref name="second week" /> Professor U Dinesh Kumar of [[IIM Bangalore]] along with his team worked with Ami Shah of IntelliAssist, the company that carried out the social media marketing for the film, and assessed Internet activities and campaigns; the team finally establish the connect between box office collections and promotions on social media. This case study is published by [[Harvard Business Publishing]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hbr.org/product/1920-evil-returns-bollywood-and-social-media-marketing/an/IMB437-PDF-ENG |accessdate=22 March 2014|publisher=[[Harvard Business Publishing]] |title=1920 Evil Returns - Bollywood and Social Media Marketing |date=1 September 2013}}</ref> and is being used by students in the US, Canada, Norway and Slovenia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/on-campus/iimb-scripts-case-on-digital-promos-of-bollywood-film/article5627380.ece |accessdate=22 March 2014|publisher=[[The Hindu Business Line]] |title=IIM-B scripts case on digital promos of Bollywood film |date=28 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/news-events/iimb-case-study-bollywood-film-finds-its-way-harvard-business-publishing |accessdate=22 March 2014|publisher=[[IIM Bangalore]] |title=IIMB CASE STUDY ON A BOLLYWOOD FILM FINDS ITS WAY TO HARVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING}}</ref>
'''''1920: Evil Returns''''' is a [[Bollywood]] [[horror film]] written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by [[Bhushan Patel]]. The film is a quasi-sequel to a 2008 film ''[[1920 (film)|1920]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1920evil-returns-will-be-different-from-the-rest-aftab/940345/ |accessdate=19 June 2012|publisher=[[Indian Express]] |title='1920-Evil Returns' will be different from the rest: Aftab |date=23 April 2012}}</ref> and stars [[Aftab Shivdasani]], [[Tia Bajpai]], [[Vidya Malvade]] and [[Sagar Saikia]] in the lead roles.<ref>{{cite news|title=Aftab Shivdasani signs his first horror movie|url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2011/aug/220811-aftab-shivdasani-1920-evil-returns-bollywood-first-horror-project.htm|accessdate=29 November 2011|newspaper=[[MiD DAY]]|date=22 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/1920-evil-returns-movie-review-whats-the-point/ | title = 1920 Evil Returns movie review | author = Bollywood Life | accessdate = 2 November 2012 }}</ref> The movie is third in a series of quasi-sequels released under the Bhatt Banner including ''[[Raaz – The Mystery Continues]]'', ''[[Murder 2]]'', ''[[Jism 2]]'', ''[[Jannat 2]]'' and ''[[Raaz 3D]]'' each of which had nothing to do with their respective prequels, but somehow fell in the same genre following a similar story. The trailer was released on 28 September 2012. The film released on 2 November 2012 to mixed reception and fared better at the opening Box Office weekend (122.7&nbsp;million Net.) as compared to any other releases that week except [[Skyfall]] (270&nbsp;million Net.).<ref>http://bollyspice.com/51286/1920-evil-returns-is-a-surprise-hit-at-the-box-office</ref> Boxofficeindia declared the film as a ''hit'' after its two-week run.<ref name="second week" /> Professor U Dinesh Kumar of [[IIM Bangalore]] along with his team worked with Ami Shah of IntelliAssist, the company that carried out the social media marketing for the film, and assessed Internet activities and campaigns; the team finally establish the connect between box office collections and promotions on social media. This case study is published by [[Harvard Business Publishing]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hbr.org/product/1920-evil-returns-bollywood-and-social-media-marketing/an/IMB437-PDF-ENG |accessdate=22 March 2014|publisher=[[Harvard Business Publishing]] |title=1920 Evil Returns - Bollywood and Social Media Marketing |date=1 September 2013}}</ref> and is being used by students in the US, Canada, Norway, Slovenia and Sri Lanka.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/on-campus/iimb-scripts-case-on-digital-promos-of-bollywood-film/article5627380.ece |accessdate=22 March 2014|publisher=[[The Hindu Business Line]] |title=IIM-B scripts case on digital promos of Bollywood film |date=28 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/news-events/iimb-case-study-bollywood-film-finds-its-way-harvard-business-publishing |accessdate=22 March 2014|publisher=[[IIM Bangalore]] |title=IIMB CASE STUDY ON A BOLLYWOOD FILM FINDS ITS WAY TO HARVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==

Revision as of 20:57, 11 October 2014

1920: Evil Returns
Movie poster
Directed byBhushan Patel
Written byVikram Bhatt
Screenplay byRensil D'Silva
Produced byVikram Bhatt[1]
StarringAftab Shivdasani
Tia Bajpai
Vidya Malvade
Sharad Kelkar
CinematographyNaren Gedia
Edited bySwapnil Raj
Music byChirantan Bhatt
Distributed byASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
Release date
  • 2 November 2012 (2012-11-02)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹ 90 million[2]
Box office₹205.0 million (US$2.5 million)
(3 weeks domestic)[3]

1920: Evil Returns is a Bollywood horror film written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by Bhushan Patel. The film is a quasi-sequel to a 2008 film 1920,[4] and stars Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai, Vidya Malvade and Sagar Saikia in the lead roles.[5][6] The movie is third in a series of quasi-sequels released under the Bhatt Banner including Raaz – The Mystery Continues, Murder 2, Jism 2, Jannat 2 and Raaz 3D each of which had nothing to do with their respective prequels, but somehow fell in the same genre following a similar story. The trailer was released on 28 September 2012. The film released on 2 November 2012 to mixed reception and fared better at the opening Box Office weekend (122.7 million Net.) as compared to any other releases that week except Skyfall (270 million Net.).[7] Boxofficeindia declared the film as a hit after its two-week run.[8] Professor U Dinesh Kumar of IIM Bangalore along with his team worked with Ami Shah of IntelliAssist, the company that carried out the social media marketing for the film, and assessed Internet activities and campaigns; the team finally establish the connect between box office collections and promotions on social media. This case study is published by Harvard Business Publishing[9] and is being used by students in the US, Canada, Norway, Slovenia and Sri Lanka.[10][11]

Plot

Jaidev Verma (Aftab Shivdasani) is a famous poet who lives the life of a loner as he is unable to meet the love of his life, Smruti (Tia Bajpai). They got to know each other through an exchange of letters and slowly fall for each other. One day, Jaidev receives a letter informing him that Smruti had an accident and has died. Now his sister Karuna (Vidya Malvade) is his only support system who keeps him motivated. One day Jaidev finds an unconscious girl near a lake and brings her home. After returning to her senses, she is not able to remember anything from her past life except Jaidev's poems. Karuna becomes sceptical of her presence in the house and gets even more so when the keeper of the cemetery warns them of an evil spirit inside of her who is in love with her.

But Jaidev is insistent on keeping her at home since he feels a connection with her. He even names her Sangeeta. Strange & spooky things start happening with Sangeeta like vomiting iron nails and seeing ghosts in her room. On their way to see a doctor, Sangeeta gets completely possessed by the ghost. Now to save her, the only person Jaidev can turn to is the cemetery keeper. Slowly Jaidev gets to know that Sangeeta is actually his lost love Smruti. So he went to Smruti's old address to find the truth. But there he discovers that Karuna had come there before, asking about Smruti. Jaidev returns home and finds that Karuna is missing; he finds Karuna's body hanging in the forest with suicide notes around it. From Karuna's letters he comes to know that his best friend Amar (Sagar Saikia), who was always jealous of Jaidev's success, exploited Karuna to get his revenge. When Amar discovers that Jaidev loves Smruti, he goes to Smruti, posing as Jaidev, and takes her to Shimla and tries to exploit her, but in the process Amar dies. Now Jaidev takes possessed Smruti to Shimla to face the final battle of good and bad.

As they are preparing to take Smruti, the cemetery keeper warns Jaidev that the spirit possessing Smruti is very vengeful and has to be deceitfully taken to the same place i.e. Amar's residence, and when once Smruti touches Amar's corpse, even unwillingly, the spirit of Amar will have to leave Smruti's body and return to Amar's corpse; then the corpse can be set on fire, releasing Amar's spirit from this karmic cycle of life, death and after death and attain Nirvana. Whilst doing this Smruti must not know where she is being taken, else the spirit residing in her will also know, and may try to flee from the spot, so she is made unconscious and completely enveloped in a sacred cloth from head to toe, while maintaining complete preparedness of not letting cloth move from Smruti's face. Eventually they reach the designated place, but as fate would have it, the cemetery keeper topples on old broken flooring and so drops Smruti's unconscious body, moving the sacred cloth away from her face, awakening the spirit in her. The possessed Smruti unleashes bloody mayhem on all four persons including Jaidev and in a matter of time all the persons except Jaidev are brutally killed by decapitation from old steel wire broken by possessed Smruti. Jaidev is badly injured in battle of evil versus just, and the possessed Smruti even burns the corpse of Amar thus forever remaining in Smruti's body. Helpless Jaidev lying on floor pleads with spirit in Smruti's body that since spirit will take Smruti forever with him there is no meaning in him letting Jaidev live after and pleads spirit to kill him so as to release from agony of living after Smruti's separation. But spirit refuses saying that it is exactly what spirit want Jaidev to suffer but while saying so possessed Smruti walks at least in lying Jaidev's reach and Jaidev cuts one rope attached to loft in ceiling thus opening ceiling loft's door then a corpse from ceiling falls on possessed Smruti eventually touching Smruti there it is revealed in flashback that it is the real corpse of Amar that Jaidev along with other persons had hidden in ceiling loft as precaution for future planned convincingly.The corpse comes alive as spirit is forced to return to its original body once the corpse touched Smruti's body when it fell on her. Now the enraged corpse aka spirit tries to kill Smruti also by jumping with her in the fire lit by the spirit earlier. But Jaidev in nick of time thrusts an axe in the corpse making it fall back into the fire. Jaidev saves Smruti and they are shown living happily with each other.

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by Chirantan Bhatt and got positive reviews from critics.

Tracklist
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Apnaa Mujhe Tu Lagaa"Sonu Nigam06:06
2."Uska Hi Banana"Arijit Singh[13]05:29
3."Jaavedaan Hai"KK, Suzanne D'Mello05:48
4."Khud Ko Tere"Mahalaxmi Iyer05:09
5."Majboor Tu Bhi Kahin"Amit Mishra04:53

Critical reception

Professional Reviews
Review scores
Source Rating
koimoi
The Times of India
Bollywood Hungama
Rediff

The movie received average to negative reviews. Renuka Vyavahare of Times of India gave it 3 stars. "1920 gives you the creeps...watch it." said ToI.[14] Rediff Movies said "1920 Evil Returns is yet another needless horror film. It's cold and bland." and gave it 1 star.[15] Roshni Devi of Koimoi gave it 2 stars. "Watch it only if you're desperate for some uninspiring horror. Give it a rest otherwise." wrote Roshni Devi.[16] Social Movie Rating site MOZVO gave it a rating of 2.3 putting it in 'Below Average' category.[17] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it 2.5 stars.[18]

Box office

1920 – Evil Returns had a decent opening weekend where it collected around ₹115.0 million (US$1.4 million) nett.[19] The film had a good first week and collected ₹160 million (US$1.9 million) nett.[3] It had collected around ₹45.0 million (US$540,000) nett in its second week taking its total to ₹205.0 million (US$2.5 million) nett and is declared a Semi Hit.[8] It finished at ₹228.6 million (US$2.7 million) domestically and was elevated to hit status.

Sequel

1920– Evil Returns had high expectations riding on it. but while the movie wasn't able to meet the chills and thrills of its first part, it didn't face a rude rejection either. And that's reason enough for producer Vikram Bhatt to go ahead and chart out a plan for the third instalment – 1920 – Part III in this scary franchise, right? "I will be making another sequel to 1920. We are working on the script right now. It is too early to talk about it as we are developing the concept for it", Vikram said in an interview. Bhatt revealed that the third part won't be in 3D, like the first two. And that the star cast will be finalised only after the script is locked.

References

  1. ^ http://bollywood-movie-review.com/1920-evil-returns-reviews-cast-plot-summary-song.html
  2. ^ "1920: Evil Returns scores 'exceptional total in opening weekend'". hindustantimes. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  3. ^ a b "1920 – Evil Returns Week One Territorial Breakdown". boxofficeindia. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  4. ^ "'1920-Evil Returns' will be different from the rest: Aftab". Indian Express. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  5. ^ "Aftab Shivdasani signs his first horror movie". MiD DAY. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
  6. ^ Bollywood Life. "1920 Evil Returns movie review". Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  7. ^ http://bollyspice.com/51286/1920-evil-returns-is-a-surprise-hit-at-the-box-office
  8. ^ a b "Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Son of Sardaar Score at the Box Office". boxofficeindia. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  9. ^ "1920 Evil Returns - Bollywood and Social Media Marketing". Harvard Business Publishing. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  10. ^ "IIM-B scripts case on digital promos of Bollywood film". The Hindu Business Line. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  11. ^ "IIMB CASE STUDY ON A BOLLYWOOD FILM FINDS ITS WAY TO HARVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING". IIM Bangalore. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  12. ^ "hauhted Cast & Crew". Bollywood Hungama.
  13. ^ Uska Hi Banana Song Written by Manoj Yadav
  14. ^ "1920: The Evil Returns". Times of India.
  15. ^ "Review: 1920: Evil Returns is not scary at all". Rediff. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  16. ^ "1920 – Evil Returns Review". koimoi.com.
  17. ^ "1920 – Evil Returns Review". MOZVO. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  18. ^ "1920 – Evil Returns". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  19. ^ "1920 – Evil Returns Has Solid Weekend". boxofficeindia. Retrieved 5 November 2012.

the total was 22.83 its super hit

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