Darna Mana Hai film (2003-movie) : Hindi Film

Darana Mana Hai Movie Details :

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Darna Mana Hai film is a 2003 Bollywood anthology horror fantasy movie. It was considered a unique and innovative attempt by Ram Gopal Varma and Prawaal Raman to provide Indian audiences with a horror film which consists of six different short stories. 

Darna Mana Hai film is a Multi Starrer cast are Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Shilpa Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Isha Koppikar, Nana Patekar, Sohail Khan, and more. Boman Irani's debut in mainstream cinema. Its basic premise is loosely inspired from the movie Campfire Tales.

This film is release on 25 July 2003 with mostly mix to positive critics reviews, However Audience not liked the movies and become unsuccessful at the Box office, film gradually was counted as a cult classic status. This was very first attempt from Bollywood to cast many different stories in one film.

In 2006 Ram Gopal Varma, as a producer, sequel film Darna Zaroori Hai, with a different multi-starrer cast, six new cinematographers, seven different directors. Only Rajpal Yadav and director Prawaal Raman were back from the previous film Darna Mana Hai.

Nana Patekar's and Vivek Oberoi story was inspired from the popular TV show MTV Bakra hosted by Cyrus Broacha. The film had no songs but songs were shot for promotional videos to promote the film.

• Directer : Prawaal Raman
• Producer : Ram Gopal Varma
• Writer : Atul Sabharwal,Rajnish Thakur,Abbas Tyrewala
• Starring : Saif Ali Khan,Vivek Oberoi,Nana Patekar,Boman Irani,Sanjay Kapoor,Shilpa Shetty,Sohail Khan,Antara Mali,Sameera Reddy
• Rajpal Yadav,Aftab Shivdasani,Isha Koppikar,Peeya Rai Chowdhary,Revathi,Raghuvir Yadav,Gaurav Kapur,Kiku Sharda,Abir Goswami
• Music : Salim–Sulaiman
• Cinematography : Vishal Sinha
• Distributed : K Sera Sera Productions
• Genre : Horror, Fantasy, Drama
• Release date : 25 July 2003
• Running time : 121 minutes
• Language : Hindi
• Country  : India

Darna Mana Hai Movie Trailer :

 

Star Cast of the Movie :

• Nana Patekar as a John Rodrigues
• Vivek Oberoi as  a Amar
• Saif Ali Khan as  a Anil Manchandani
• Sanjay Kapoor as  a Sanjay
• Sohail Khan as  a Karan
• Shilpa Shetty as  a Gayatri
• Isha Koppikar as a Abhilasha
• Aftab Shivdasani as  a Purab
• Boman Irani as a hotel owner
• Sameera Reddy as  a Shruti
• Gaurav Kapoor as  a Romi
• Antara Mali as  a Anjali
• Raghuvir Yadav as  a Dayashankar Pandey (teacher)
• Anuj Pandit Sharma as  a Varun
• Revathi as  a Pramila's mother
• Rajpal Yadav as an Apple vendor
• Sushant Singh as a serial-killer
• Malavika as  a Neha
• Rahul Singh as  a Dev
• Kiku Sharda as one of the friends

Darna Mana Hai film Songs / Music :

This film music composer are Salim-Sulaiman while lyricist is Lalit Marathe. The film had no songs but songs were shot for promotional videos to promote the film.The Music album have 6 songs listed as per below.

• "Darna Mana Hai"..........Sunidhi Chauhan, Ninad Kamat, Naresh Kamat
• "Darna Mana Hai Remix"........Sunidhi Chauhan, Ninad Kamat, Naresh Kamat
• "Homework"......................Clinton Cerejo, Aparna Jha, Vijay
• "Jo Dar Gaya Voh Mar Gaya".......Sunidhi Chauhan, Salim Merchant, Naresh Kamat
• "No Smoking".................Ravi Khote
• "Stop"...........................Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan

"Jo Dar Gaya Voh Mar Gaya" song :

• Singer : Sunidhi Chauhan, Salim Merchant, Naresh Kamat
• Music Composer : Salim-Sulaiman
• Lyricist : Lalit Marathe
• Actors : Sameera Reddy in the song

Review of the film : 

This film reviews are mostly mix from critics.

Critics reviews : 

Narbir Gosal from Planet Bollywood gave 7.5 star from 10 star and stated that "Darna Mana Hai is definitely different for Bollywood. It´s an experiment which could go either way at the box office. A lame main plot, as well as lack of the horror element and some sloppy writing hurt the film. But thanks to some good performances, a new concept for story telling and good technical values help prop it up. Darna Mana Hai is not a movie which everyone will enjoy but that doesn´t mean that it shouldn´t be applauded. It´s obviously a step in another direction for Bollywood. We just hope that next time around Ram Gopal Varma actually sits down and concentrates on making a film which is slick throughout, but for now this wacky film will more than make up for the likes of Hawa"

Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave only 1.5 star out of 5 star and writes that "Darna Mana Hai film caters to the intelligentsia more than the average cinegoer of today, who may find the concept of the film difficult to digest. At the box-office, the aggressive promotion of the film may ensure a good first three days, but the subsequent fall in collections cannot be ruled out. At best, a film for multiplexes in metros. The reasonable price may help the film sail safe in some circuits, especially in Mumbai and South.

Box office collection :

• Screens : 200
• First Day Friday : 86 Lakhs
• 2nd Day Saturday : 81 Lakhs
• 3rd Day Sunday  : 85 Lakhs
• First Weekend  : 2 Crores 52 Lakhs
• First Week  : 3 Crores 84 Lakhs
• Second Week  : 92 Lakhs
• Third Week  : 24 Lakhs
• Box office Nett  : 5 Crores 15 Lakhs
• Box office Gross : 7 Crores 15 Lakhs
• Overseas Gross  : 1 Crores 16 Lakhs
• Worldwide collections Gross  :  8 Crores 31 Lakhs
• Budget  : 4 Crores 50 Lakhs
• Box Office Verdict  : FLOP

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