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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.

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