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 Kaun film poster. |
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| Directed by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Produced by | Mukesh Udeshi |
| Written by | Anurag Kashyap |
| Starring | Urmila Matondkar Manoj Bajpai Sushant Singh |
| Music by | Sandeep Chowta |
| Cinematography | Mazhar Kamran |
| Editing by | Bhanodaya |
| Distributed by | Video Sound (Canada) Video Sound (USA) |
| Release date(s) | February 26, 1999 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi English |
Kaun (Hindi: कौन, English: Who's There) is a 1999 Hindi suspense thriller directed by Ram Gopal Verma, written by Anurag Kashyap, and starring Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpai and Sushant Singh. Other titles for the film were Evaru (Telugu title) and Thriller (English title).
The film features a man claiming to be a white collar worker (Bajpai) and another man claiming to be a police inspector (Singh), both attempting to get into the house of a young woman (Matondkar). Kaun was an inventively minimalistic film using only one set and a cast of three actors (excluding a dead body and a brief appearance of a room full of silent, motionless extras). The only costume change occurs in the film's final scene when Matondkar reappears the following morning.
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In the Malhotra household, a young woman (Urmila Matondkar) is preparing to spend a quiet evening with her pet kitty, watching cable television. The doorbell rings, and she sees through the peephole that it is a young man, who later identifies himself as Sameer A. Purnavale (Manoj Bajpai), claiming to be an employee of Mr. Malhotra. She is reluctant to open the door, even to talk to this stranger, as the police had just issued a warning about a killer at large in this area. She does offer him a sandwich, but he tricks her into opening the door, and lets himself in on the pretext of protecting her from an unknown person, who is making a noise elsewhere in the house.
When no one is found, she asks him to leave, and opens the door, and finds another man with a gun, who later identifies himself as Police Inspector Qureshi (Sushant Singh). The two doubt his credentials, and Sameer phones the nearest police station and calls for help. The two men then get into a fight, and she gets hold of Qureshi's gun, and asks them to sit quietly. It is then revealed that the man claiming to be Inspector Qureshi is in fact a thief. She telephones her mother and ask her to contact the police.
Sameer later goes upstairs and comes across the dead bodies of both Mr. Malhotra and the thief. As he turns around, the young woman is standing there holding a knife, laughing. She turns out to be the serial killer and a mental patient who escaped from a mental hospital. She tricked the two men into believing that one of them is the killer, though the killer was in fact her. It appears that the young woman murdered Mr. Malhotra and took his house and named it as "The Gupta House". She then murders Sameer and disposes of their dead bodies. The film ends the next morning with a door bell ringing asking if the real owner still lives there and she looks at the camera and smiles.
Sushant Singh initially tries to pass himself off as a police inspector named Qureshi. Ram Gopal Varma later reprised the name in his 2003 film Bhoot when Nana Patekar played a character named Inspector Liyaqat Qureshi.
Also, all these same actors appeared in the movie, Satya in 1997.
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