1920: Evil Returns

2012 film by Bhushan Patel June 2026 March 2014 1920: The Evil Returns 1920 Evil Returns poster.jpg Movie poster Bhushan Patel Vikram BhattSanjy Masoom (Tamil Dialogue) Rensil D'Silva Vikram Bhatthttp://bollywood-movie-review.com/1920-evil-returns-reviews-cast-plot-summary-song.html » 1920 Evil Returns reviews Read reviews by rajeev masand, Taran adarsh bollywood hungama, anupam chopra hindustan times boxoffice collection 5 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121108004605/http://bollywood-movie-review.com/1920-evil-returns-reviews-cast-plot-summary-song.html 8 November 2012 dead Aftab Shivdasani Tia Bajpai Vidya Malvade Sharad Kelkar Naren Gedia Swapnil Raj Songs:Chirantan Bhatt Background Score:Amar Mohile ASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. Reliance Entertainment yes 2012 11 02 119 minutes India Hindi 90 millionhttps://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=1173 1920 – Evil Returns – Movie – Box Office India www.boxofficeindia.com 20 November 2021 20 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211120155835/https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=1173 live 304.4 million 1920: Evil Returns is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror film written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by Bhushan Patel. A quasi-sequel to the 2008 film 1920,http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1920evil-returns-will-be-different-from-the-rest-aftab/940345/ 19 June 2012 Indian Express '1920-Evil Returns' will be different from the rest: Aftab 23 April 2012 and the second of the 1920 film series, it stars Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai, Vidya Malvade and Sharad Kelkar.Aftab Shivdasani signs his first horror movie http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2011/aug/220811-aftab-shivdasani-1920-evil-returns-bollywood-first-horror-project.htm 29 November 2011 MiD DAY 22 August 2011 The film is third in a series of quasi-sequels released under the Bhatt Banner including Raaz – The Mystery Continues, Murder 2, Jism 2, Jannat 2 and Raaz 3D each of which had nothing to do with their respective prequels, but somehow fell in the same genre following a similar story. The trailer was released on 28 September 2012. The film follows a reclusive writer who after bringing in an amnesiac woman to his house, goes through increasing disturbing and haunting events, which leads him to believe what he is experiencing is supernatural and the woman has something to do with it. The film released on 2 November 2012 to mixed reception and fared better at the opening Box Office weekend (122.7 million Net.) as compared to any other releases that week except Skyfall (270 million Net.). http://bollyspice.com/51286/1920-evil-returns-is-a-surprise-hit-at-the-box-office 1920 Evil Returns is a surprise hit at the box office bollyspice.com 6 November 2012 7 November 2012 18 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130718053333/http://bollyspice.com/51286/1920-evil-returns-is-a-surprise-hit-at-the-box-office live U Dinesh Kumar, Professor at IIM Bangalore and his team worked with Ami Shah of IntelliAssist, the company that carried out the social media marketing for the film, and assessed Internet activities and campaigns with the case study later published by Harvard Business Publishing.http://hbr.org/product/1920-evil-returns-bollywood-and-social-media-marketing/an/IMB437-PDF-ENG 22 March 2014 Harvard Business Publishing 1920 Evil Returns – Bollywood and Social Media Marketing 1 September 2013 25 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140525021454/http://hbr.org/product/1920-evil-returns-bollywood-and-social-media-marketing/an/IMB437-PDF-ENG live http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/on-campus/iimb-scripts-case-on-digital-promos-of-bollywood-film/article5627380.ece 22 March 2014 The Hindu Business Line IIM-B scripts case on digital promos of Bollywood film 28 January 2014 30 March 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140330072651/http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/on-campus/iimb-scripts-case-on-digital-promos-of-bollywood-film/article5627380.ece live http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/news-events/iimb-case-study-bollywood-film-finds-its-way-harvard-business-publishing 22 March 2014 IIM Bangalore IIMB case study on the film 17 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160217182105/http://www.iimb.ernet.in/research/news-events/iimb-case-study-bollywood-film-finds-its-way-harvard-business-publishing live Plot In 1920, Jaidev Verma is a famous poet who lives as a loner as Jaidev is unable to meet the love of his life, Smriti. Jaidev and Smriti got to know each other through an exchange of letters and slowly fell in love. While travelling at night, Smriti is attacked by a Possessed Badrinath, Smriti's driver. One of Smriti's employee visits and informs Jaidev that Smriti had died in an accident. Jaidev's sister, Karuna keeps Jaidev motivated. Jaidev finds an unconscious girl near a lake and brings her home. After gaining consciousness, she is unable to remember anything from her life except Jaidev's poems. Karuna becomes skeptical of her presence in the house and gets even more skeptical when an undertaker warns Jaidev and Karuna of an evil spirit inside the girl. Jaidev is insistent on keeping the girl at home since Jaidev feels a connection with the girl. Jaidev names the girl as Sangeeta. Sangeeta experiences frightening phenomena, vomiting iron nails and seeing ghosts in her room. Jaidev takes Sangeeta to a hospital but the haunting continues. As the doctor is unable to treat Sangeeta, he suggests visiting another advanced hospital in Shimla. Jaidev and Sangeeta stay in a hotel on their way to Shimla. Outside the hotel, Sangeeta gets attacked by Possessed Badrinath, regains her memory and understands that she is Smriti. Sangeeta is possessed by the ghost and Jaidev brings Sangeeta to his house. Jaidev turns to the cemetery keeper, who warned about the possession earlier, for help. With the cemetery keeper's help Jaidev understands that Sangeeta is actually Smriti. Jaidev visits Smriti's address to find out the truth and discovers that Karuna had come to Smriti's house earlier, asking about Smriti. Jaidev returns home and finds Karuna's body hanging in the forest with suicide notes around. From Karuna's suicide notes, Jaidev learns that his best friend, Amar, who envied Jaidev's success, had a sexual relationship with Karuna. When Amar discovered that Jaidev loved Smriti, he stole one of the love letters to find Smriti's address. Karuna confronts Amar about the letter. But he blackmails Karuna and she hides everything from Jaidev. Amar went to meet Smriti, posing as Jaidev, and took Smriti to his new residence which is under construction in Shimla. Eventually Smriti understands Amar's deceit and confronts him. Amar confesses his plan to Smriti while assaulting her. Smriti pushed Amar away and he fell to his death. Smriti and one of the employees hid Amar's corpse inside his residence. Amar's spirit is now possessing Smriti. Jaidev burns Karuna's corpse. The cemetery keeper warns Jaidev that the spirit is very vengeful and has to be deceitfully taken to the place where Amar died. The cemetery keeper explains that once Smriti touches Amar's corpse, Amar's spirit will have to leave Smriti's body and return to Amar's corpse and the corpse can then be set on fire, destroying Amar's spirit. While doing this, Smriti must not know where Smriti is being taken; else the spirit will also know. Smriti is fully wrapped in a sacred cloth and taken to Amar's partly constructed house by Jaidev, the cemetery keeper and two of Jaidev's employees. The floor cracks and one of Jaidev's employees trips and the sacred cloth moves away from Smriti, awakening the spirit. The possessed Smriti kills all except Jaidev. Jaidev is badly injured in the battle against the spirit. The spirit in Smriti's body eats the remains of the cemetery keeper's body and seemingly burns Amar's corpse, thus forever remaining in Smriti's body. Jaidev helplessly pleads with the spirit to kill him, since there is no meaning in letting Jaidev live if the spirit will take Smriti from him forever. Amar's spirit refuses, saying that this is exactly what Amar wanted: for Jaidev to suffer. Jaidev cuts a rope attached to a loft in the ceiling; a corpse falls on Smriti. It is revealed that Jaidev and the group had hidden the real corpse of Amar in the ceiling as a precaution. Amar's spirit leaves Smriti's body and enters the corpse. Enraged, Amar's corpse tries to kill Smriti, but Jaidev saves Smriti and sets Amar's corpse on fire, thus destroying Amar's spirit. Jaidev and Smriti consummate their union. Cast Aftab Shivdasani as Jaidev Verma Tia Bajpai as Smriti/Sangeeta Vidya Malvade as Karuna Verma Sharad Kelkar as Amar (evil Spirit) Vicky Ahuja as Bankimlal Sanjay Sharma as Bhola Tarakesh Chauhan as the doctor in the town hospital Naresh Sharma as the driver of a horse carriagehauhted Cast & Crew http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/cast/id/547818 https://web.archive.org/web/20120123041757/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/cast/id/547818 dead 23 January 2012 Bollywood Hungama Yogesh Tripathi as Chand Falguni Rajani as Smriti's landlord Soundtrack 1920 Evil Returns Soundtrack Composer Chirantan Bhatt Lyrics Shakeel Azmi, Junaid Wasi & Manoj Yadav 9 October 2012https://youtube.com/watch?v=1QJ52iXBTXQ 1920 Evil Returns – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack youtube Jio Saavn 10 October 2020 5 December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201205040229/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QJ52iXBTXQ live Feature film soundtrack 27:20 Hindi T-Series The music for the film was composed by Chirantan Bhatt and the lyrics written by Shakeel Azmi, Junaid Wasi & Manoj Yadav. The music got positive reviews from critics. Hindi Track listing Singer(s) 27:20 Apna Mujhe Tu Laga Shakeel Azmi Sonu Nigam 6:06 Uska Hi Banana Junaid Wasi Arijit Singh 5:28 Jaavedaan Hai Shakeel Azmi KK, Suzanne D'Mello 5:48 Khud Ko Tere Shakeel Azmi Mahalakshmi Iyer 5:07 Majboor Tu Bhi Kahin Manoj Yadav Amit Mishra 4:53 Tamil Track listing Singer(s) 6:08 Kattayam Sanjay Masoom Various Artists 1:20 Uyire Sanjay Masoom Arijit Singh 4:48 Critical reception Renuka Vyavahare of Times of India gave it 3 stars. "1920 gives you the creeps...watch it." said ToI.1920: The Evil Returns http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/hindi/1920-The-Evil-Returns/movie-review/17023270.cms Times of India 8 November 2012 8 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121108055700/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/hindi/1920-The-Evil-Returns/movie-review/17023270.cms live Rediff Movies said "1920 Evil Returns is yet another needless horror film. It's cold and bland." and gave it 1 star.Review: 1920: Evil Returns is not scary at all http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-1920-evil-returns/20121102.htm Rediff 6 November 2012 4 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121104233343/http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-1920-evil-returns/20121102.htm live Roshni Devi of Koimoi gave it 2 stars. "Watch it only if you're desperate for some uninspiring horror. Give it a rest otherwise." wrote Roshni Devi.1920 – Evil Returns Review 2 November 2012 http://www.koimoi.com/reviews/1920-evil-returns-review/ koimoi.com 8 November 2012 5 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121105211807/http://www.koimoi.com/reviews/1920-evil-returns-review/ live Social Movie Rating site MOZVO gave it a rating of 2.3 putting it in 'Below Average' category.1920 – Evil Returns Review http://mozvo.com/movie/1920---evil-returns-2012 MOZVO 8 November 2012 Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it 2.5 stars.1920 – Evil Returns http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/547818 https://web.archive.org/web/20120426042241/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/547818 dead 26 April 2012 Bollywood Hungama 8 November 2012 Box office 1920 – Evil Returns had a decent opening weekend where it collected around 115 m nett.1920 – Evil Returns Has Solid Weekend http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5055&nCat= boxofficeindia 5 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121108012934/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5055&nCat= 8 November 2012 dead The film had a good first week and collected 160 m nett.1920 – Evil Returns Week One Territorial Breakdown http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5071&nCat= boxofficeindia 12 November 2012 https://archive.today/20130119203106/http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5071&nCat= 19 January 2013 dead It had collected around 45.0 m nett in its second week taking its total to 205 m nett.Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Son of Sardaar Score at the Box Office http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5104&nCat= boxofficeindia 17 November 2012 19 November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121119195327/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=5104&nCat= live It finished at 229 m in the domestic market. Sequel The reasonable success of 1920 – Evil Returns prompted producer Vikram Bhatt to plan another sequel. "I will be making another sequel to 1920. We are working on the script right now. It is too early to talk about it as we are developing the concept for it", Vikram said in an interview. It was also revealed that the film would not be in 3D. The sequel to the movie was later named as 1920 London, and released on 6 May 2016. See also Fear, another Vikram Bhatt horror film where the protagonist brings home an amnesiac woman and helps her fight off a ghostly spirit on her trail. References External links 2222550 1920-evil-returns 547818 Category:Hindi-language horror films Category:2012 films Category:2012 horror films Category:Films directed by Bhushan Patel Category:Films set in 1920 Category:Films set in country houses Category:Films shot in Sweden Category:Indian horror films Category:2012 Hindi-language films Category:2012 Indian films