Kaal (Hindi: काल, Urdu: کال,, translation: "The Time of Doom") is a Bollywood Horror film, released in India on 29 April 2005. The movie is directed by Soham Shah, who also wrote its dialogue and screenplay. Karan Johar and Shahrukh Khan produced the movie. The movie is based around the story of a wildlife expert, his wife and a group of friends who battle against supernatural creatures in the fictional Orbit National Park (alluding to the world-famous Jim Corbett National Park of India) for their lives. It stars Ajay Devgan, John Abraham, Vivek Oberoi, Esha Deol and Lara Dutta. It has Shahrukh Khan in a cameo role in the song "Kaal Dhamaal".

Plot[link]

Two British Nationals are killed by a ferocious tiger in Orbit Park, This incident follows several other incidents, and many deaths result, prompting a National Geographic correspondent, Krish Thapar (John Abraham), and his wife, Riya Thapar (Esha Deol), to take a trip to this park and ascertain what really happened. A group of youngsters, consisting of Dev Malhotra (Vivek Oberoi), Ishika (Lara Dutta), Sajid (Kushal Punjabi), and Vishal (Vishal Malhotra), on a thrill and hunting trip also arrive there in the hopes of sighting and shooting some big prey. Both Thapar and Malhotra groups meet with each other, and seek the guidance of a local called Kaali ( Ajay Devgan) after he saves them from a tiger attack.

Slowly it emerges that the people being killed are not being killed by tigers but a person. Dev looks like the main suspect since he is usually not around when people are being killed. Kaali tells them all about a recent story of how overhunting was destroying the jungle. One local guide got very upset by this and started leading tourists astray and getting them killed by tigers. When this started affecting the tourist trade, other villagers and local guides beat that guide and threw him to the tigers. The local villagers now believe that his ghost is killing everyone who breaks the jungle's rules. That night while spending the night at an isolated inn, Riya is murdered in what appears to be an accident. Then Dev sees that there is no reflection of Kaali in the well or video in Riya's handycam confirming that Kali is the vengeful ghost. They trick Kali and escape the jungle narrowly escaping death due to Kali's rage. Krish later writes an article about the forest, Kali and loss of his wife, Riya. He states that there is no way to stop Kali as even after reading his articles of warning, people still wander in the forest.

Cast[link]

• Ajay Devgan as Kaali Pratap Singh
• John Abraham as Krish Thapar
• Vivek Oberoi as Dev Malhotra
• Lara Dutta as Ishika
• Esha Deol as Riya Thapar
• Kushal Punjabi as Sajid
• Vishal Malhotra as Vishal
• Vineet Sharma as Bagga
• Parmeet Sethi as Jungle Officer
• Daya Shankar Pandey
• Shahrukh Khan in a Special Appearance in song "Kaal Dhamaal"
• Malaika Arora in a Special Appearance in song "Kaal Dhamaal"

Reception[link]

The film received mostly positive reviews from critics noting it to be a different type of horror film. ^[1][2] At the box office it performed moderately well, grossing an approx Rs.19 Crores and was given the final verdict of an above-average grosser. ^[3] It was also the tenth highest grossing film of the year (Bollywood films of 2005).

Soundtrack[link]

The music is composed by Salim-Sulaiman and Anand Raj Anand. The lyrics are penned by Shabbir Ahmed, Anand Raj Anand and Kailash Kher.

Track listing[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Kaal at the Internet Movie Database