’Khamosh - Khauf Ki Raat’ is indeed different from the movies churned out by Bollywood. Produced by Tijori Film Production, the movie has been made without any renowned star excluding Shilpa Shetty.
It is needless to add that whether the movie will be commercially successful or not, it will certainly help Shilpa to bag more offers from producers. She has performed well as the leading lady in the film directed by Deepak Tijori.
This is a psychological thriller that is full of fear, fright and chill. The story commences when Sonia played by Shipla, a starlet and a call girl, proceeds with her boyfriend Kashmira, played by Rakhi Sawant, in a swanky car. Because of torrential rain, the car doesn’t move further on the highway. Nothing is visible.
Before the vehicle comes to a grinding halt due to some mechanical fault, it dashes against a woman named Mahek, played by Kainaaz Pervees. Shilpa persuades Kashmira to take the wounded woman for treatment. Her husband is Avinash played by Rajiv Singh. They were proceeding for their honeymoon. They stay in the motel too. Strange things happen in the motel located in rural Maharashtra.
The locality seems to be cut off from the rest of the world. Neither landline telephone nor mobile phone operates there. As no hospital can be contacted, the badly injured woman has to be kept in the motel. Then strange things follow. One after another, nearly half a dozen persons including the husband of the woman get murdered in mysterious circumstances.
Since it rains heavily, the inmates staying in the motel suspect one another. The suspects include the receptionist Adi, played by Vrajesh Hirjee. His offence is that once he was detected by some of them sharpening his knife on the sly. He is eccentric though, and enjoys wacky sense of humor. As rain continues, a police van stops there carrying a criminal played by Kelly Dorjee, in handcuffs. He is kept handcuffed in a locked room. Mystery deepens as he flees.
Fifteen years after the incidents a doctor played by Juhi Chawla takes up the case in which an innocent person has been implicated. Despite vehement objection of the judge, she proves that a person who feels wronged has committed the murders. His psyche has been affected by certain tragedies. He has therefore become a serial killer. The accused is cross -examined. He confesses that he had a grudge against his parents.
Her mother had killed her husband and married another person. Kelly Dorjee pleads guilty before the magistrate. Juhi Chawla pleads with the magistrate not to send him to the gallows. He needs sympathy of the society and after treatment, he may be a changed man, she says. He is not a criminal. He went on killing because of his nhappy childhood. The Magistrate accepts her plea and orders that he should be lodged in a mental asylum instead of jail.
As he is being taken to a mental asylum with a police escort, Juhi Chawla stops her car to greet him on a highway .She was dumfounded when Kelly kills her driver after shooting the escort. He points his revolver at the throat of Juhi Chawla too, but he is shot from behind by the dying escort. She contacts the police on mobile phone .As no help is forthcoming soon on the highway; she stops a car coming her way. She requests the lady sitting in it to take her to Mumbai.
The lady obliges her, As they proceed, she asks Juhi Chawla as to what had happened to her. She narrates the happening. There is only an eyewitness to the incident. But she remains silent. The eyewitness is by Shilpa Shetty. She does not disclose her identity and remains silent as before.
The lady doctor cannot recognize her. Besides Shipla Shetty and Juhi Chawla, others who have done justice to their roles are Vrajesh Hirjee as Adi and Rakhi Sawant as Kashmira, boyfriend of Shilpa Shetty.
Cinematography has been exceptional by Thomas A Xavier. Jatin-Lalit duo are the music directors. Others in the movie cast are Rajat Bedi, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Avtar Gill, Raju Shresta, and Gargi Patel.
The movie needs a strong heart to watch it. Some other recent movies also fall in this genre. They caution diabetic patients to beware before watching ’Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaaye’. These movies fail to provide total entertainment or convey any social message. As the title indicates, there is silence even in the wake of a night full of fright (khauf).