Darna Zaroori Hai Movie Review

Cast and Crew

Producer     Ram Gopal Verma
Director     Jijy Philips,Prawal Raaman,Ram Gopal Verma,J D Chakervarty


Amitabh Bachchan
Ritesh Deshmukh
Anil Kapoor
Mallika Sherawat
Randeep Hooda
Zakir Hussain
Manoj Pahwa
Sunil Shetty
Sonali Kulkarni
Rajpal Yadav
Arjun Rampal
Bipasha Basu
Makrand Deshpande
Rasika Joshi
Nisha Kothari
Isha Koppikar
Shweta Prasad


The Plot

Despite some obvious clichés that can be expected of a horror movie, ‘Darna Zaroori Hai’ does entertain, although not scare, primarily because the movie keeps flitting from one interesting story to another. And each story has some unexpected twist, which, by the way, becomes a tad predictable after you have gotten the hang of the directors’ intention.It is a noteworthy experiment to string together seven different stories directed by as many directors. 

5 children on an annual school picnic take a different route to jungle for doing something adventurous, but land in a bungalow. That bungalow is owned by an old lady, who bets that she can make those 5 children scared by telling them different stories.

Darna Zaroori Hai

Episode 1 - (Manoj Pahwa episode) - It is often treated as a comedy and it end up as a comedy.

Episode 2 - (Amitab Episode) - There is no story, but a small try to test your capacity, plus a hypnotic try on the fear. This episode could have been made better.

Episode 3 - (Bipasha Episode) - Calling the Atma and.... There is some story here but darna zaroori nahi hai.   You will be confused more than 2 times.

Episode 4 - (Manoj Bajpai Episode) - Good, but the subject not synch with other stories.

Episode 5 - (Anil Kapoor Episode) - Another humour episode, end up in accident.   Another light story. Hope Karan will not sue the producers.

Episode - 6 - (Randeep Hooda Episode) - The story of revenge executed well, but the story could have been narrated well.   And some cruelty could have been added into the episode.

The collection of stories - the 5 children and grandma (Need to mention all of them performed well) episode is however failed to give a meaning.

Directors Ram Gopal Varma, Jiji Philip, Sajid Khan, JD Chakrabarthy, Vivek Shah & Parwal Raman executed their roles good.

On the whole movie can be recommended as a good time pass with some thrilling and scary moments. But on the same time one should not expect something extraordinary from this.