Movie Name : Agyaat - the unknown
CREW
Presenter: UTV Motion Pictures
Production: Dreamforce Enterprise
Producer: Ronnie Screwvala & Ram Gopal Varma
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Co‐Producers: Zarina Mehta, Deven Khote & Siddharth Roy Kapur
Associate Producer: Ram Mirchandani
DOP: Surjodeep Ghosh
Writer: Puneet Gandhi / Nilesh Girkar
Editor: Nipun Ashok Gupta
Sound Designer: Dwarak Warrier
Mixing Engineer: Leslie Fernandes
Background Score: Amar Mohile
Executive Producer: Sheel Nimbalkar
Line Producer(SriLanka): Chandran Rutnam
Action Director: Javed‐Aejaz
Music: Bapi‐Tutul / Imran‐Vikram
Lyricist: Prasant Pandey / Sandip Singh / Sarim Momin
Choreographer: Howard Rosemeyer / Jani Basha
Costume Designer: Vyoma Kavdikar
Publicity Designer: Sachin Suresh Gurav
1st Assistant Director: Mohan Babu Bammidi
2nd Assistant Director: Nadeem Shah
Special Publicity Stills & Concept: Sachin Suresh Gurav
Promo Editors: Nipun Ashok Gupta / Vinoo Choliparambi
DI, Visual Effects: Prime Focus Ltd.

Cast:

Nitin (Sujal)
Priyanka Kothari (Aasha)
Gautam (Sharman)
Rasika Duggal (Sameera)
Howard Rosemere (JJ)
Ravi Kale (Rakka)
Ishrat Ali (Moorthy)
Ishteyak Khan (Laxman)
Kali Prasad (Shakky)
Joy Fernandes (Setu)

Synopsys:

A film unit goes for a shoot deep into a forest.
They settle at a place with bare minimal facilities run by a strange and quirky man called Setu.
The hero of the film Sharman is a completely self obsessed man with no other concern except
for his muscles and the leading lady. The leading lady Aasha bears with him because of his star
status. Director JJ thinks of himself as India’s answer to Steven Spielberg and Producer Moorty
thinks the director is screwing up the film and stopping him from becoming the next Yash
Chopra. Laxman is a completely subservient spot boy but with a hidden monstrous ego.
Cinematographer Shakky is very philosophical in nature and Action Director Rakka is a frustrated
man who hates the leading actor, Sharman. Script Supervisor Sameera is a simpleton with ideals
and a secret crush on the protagonist Sujal who is an Assistant Director, who in turn has a huge
crush on Aasha.
It all begins when the camera conks off… They have two days waiting for the replacement to
arrive and with no form of entertainment or communication when Setu suggests a camping trip
into the forest, they jump at the opportunity. As Setu drives them through the jungle around
undergrowth in a relic Jonga, they begin to wonder how Setu can remember the way back as the
jungle looks the same all around.
As they settle near a pond for the night and sit around a bonfire Setu hears a strange sound. He
goes to investigate and never returns. After a desperate search they discover his dead body.
Panic sets in among the unit members and they jump into the Jonga but them being unfamiliar
with the terrain and their hastiness result in an accident. The axle breaks.
Now completely lost and trapped in the jungle as Setu, the only guy who knows the way out is
dead, they don’t know which way to move to get out of the forest… yet another unit member
gets brutally killed thereby, making them realize that whatever it is that has killed Setu is out to
get them all.
From then on it is a desperate struggle to survive against that unknown entity. And as their
numbers dwindle the suppressed passions among them come forth, they realize that it is not
only their lives they are fighting for, but also for their loves…


Director's Note: (From official site)
I have always been an incredible fan of the thriller genre where there is an unknown or a known entity which is out to kill at random a group of people trapped in a certain situation whether it is Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ or John Carpenter’s “The Thing”. Not to forget the “Blair Witch Project” in which the genius of the concept has gone to the extent of not showing the antagonist at all. I have titled my film based on this concept as ‘AGYAAT’ -meaning the unknown.

This movie will also be about the emotional complexities that extreme fear unleashes in people.
The story is about how a film unit on a shoot, in a far away land in a certain situation gets trapped deep in a forest and one by one the members start getting killed.

Why I selected a film unit to be the protagonists for this story is because a film unit is literally like a walking office in terms of its various hierarchical elements.

A star who is obsessed with himself, a leading lady who bears with him because of his stardom, a director who thinks he will be the next Steven Spielberg, a producer who thinks that the director is screwing up his film, an assistant director who has a crush on the heroine, a script girl who has quite a few things for the assistant director, a frustrated action director who has a hidden maniacal streak in him, a highly subservient spot boy with a monstrous ego, are just a few of the assorted characters in this story.

The unknown entity which starts killing them one by one in the film is really a premise and the real exciting part for me is the human drama of how in a given situation the whole film unit’s hierarchical differences get erased and all of them become as human as anybody else when faced with death.

- Ram Gopal Varma