The Extended Canon
Raat
रात · 1992
A family moves into a new house and something attaches itself to the daughter. The most technically accomplished Indian horror of its era.
- Director
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Year
- 1992
- Genre
- Horror
- Cast
- Revathi, Om Puri, Rohini Hattangadi
Why it's in the canon
Sound design and camera movement decades ahead of anything else in Indian horror.
A family moves into a new house and something attaches itself to the daughter. The most technically accomplished Indian horror of its era.
Raat sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ram Gopal Varma — also responsible for Satya, Company, Rangeela.
- Released in 1992, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Horror.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Raat (1992) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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