Kaun (1999)
- Original title
- कौन
- Directed by
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- A
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 35 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman is home alone when a stranger knocks at her door. Suspicion builds as she tries to figure out if he is a threat or if she is alone with someone worse.
tenseclaustrophobicunsettlingslow-burnparanoidcerebralatmosphericminimalist
What happens
Kaun? (transl. 'Who?') is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language psychological horror-thriller film directed by Ram Gopal Varma, written by Anurag Kashyap and starring Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpayee and Sushant Singh. It was shot in 15 days making it one the lowest recorded time to complete and wrap up shoot in Indian cinema history. The film was dubbed into Telugu as Yevaru? and in Japanese as Stormy Night. The film was remade into Kannada as Shock (2010). According to the Hindustan Times, Kaun? enjoys a near cult status today. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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