Vishal Sinha, cinematographer: Ram had the thought of any individual who was possessed by the previous tenant of the property they’d simply moved into. That previous of that property now invades their lives – that was the important level.
Ram Gopal Varma, director: I wished to search for a location someplace in a hill station, Dalhousie or someplace up north.
Vishal Sinha: Sameer and I truly travelled throughout Himachal, Shimla, Nainital for a month, and got here again with fabulous houses and homes. As quickly as we got here again, I noticed the images and requested, ‘Sir, doesn’t this appear like a Ramsay movie? That typical bhoot bangla vibe?’ He requested what I had in thoughts. Once I was within the tenth grade, I used to check at a buddy’s home. His carry went up and down at evening, and we have been terrified of it as children. He had a watchman that slept along with his eyes open. There was additionally a woman who had fallen from the 7th flooring, and there was a narrative that she used to make use of the carry at evening. So I advised him all this, and that month-and-a-half of reconnaissance went out of the window that morning.
Ram Gopal Varma: I assumed if that’s the case, why not make the movie in Lokhandwala? An condo effervescent with individuals is the final place you’d anticipate a ghost. We generally tend to think about a horror movie taking place in a graveyard or a haunted home on a hill station, but when it occurs in a spot the place nobody will actually anticipate a ghost, then that’s scary.
Bhut labored, at the start, due to its location. It’s a bustling metropolis the place there are such a lot of individuals round and that’s the final place you’d anticipate something like a horror movie to occur. It’s relatable, as a result of many individuals don’t go to far-off locations. There’s this concept of, ‘It might occur to me, it might occur in a neighbour’s home, it might occur within the constructing throughout the road, it could possibly occur in my very own constructing.’ That’s the most important motive it labored.
Vishal Sinha: The morning after I advised Ram the story, we have been on the lookout for a flat to do that in. It was going to be an city legend kind of movie.
Sameer Sharma: By then, we already had a model of the script that was set within the hills and so the entire thing needed to change. There’s a pacing and chaos to town which adjustments issues. The fears might develop into much more actual – this isn’t some bungalow within the hills that’s being haunted, this could possibly be your condo. The doorbell grew to become an necessary character within the movie.