Aatma is a 2013 Bollywood psychological thriller directed by Suparn Verma and starring Bipasha Basu and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in lead roles and Shernaz Patel and Doyel Dhawan in supporting roles.
Starring - Bipasha Basu, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Directed by Suparn VermaProduced by Kumar Mangat Pathak, Abhishek Pathak
Release date - 22 March 2013
Synopsis
- The movie begins with Niya (Doyel Dhawan) watching a video of herself
and her father. Niya is the daughter of Maya (Bipasha Basu) and Abhay
(Nawazuddin Siddiqui). Maya and Abhay are divorced. Maya and Niya live
with Maya's mother (Shernaz Patel) and father (Shiv Kumar Subramaniam).
Niya is unaware of the fact that her father is dead. Maya deliberately
hides the truth from her as Niya is a sensitive child and worships her
father. Things start getting bizarre when Paras, Niya's classmate who
gives her a hard time in school, ends up dead after he pulled Niya's
hair. Same thing happens to Niya's class teacher Mrs. Sinha who
complains about Niya. Moreover Niya starts talking to her absent father.
Maya is concerned about the absurd change in Niya's behaviour and hence
takes her for counseling. It is revealed in the counseling session that
Abhay was a hot tempered man. He loses out on his job and friends
because of his frequent and violent bouts of anger. Abhay also suspects
Maya of having an affair with a colleague. However he loves his daughter
more than anything else. After Abhay starts beating up Maya, she files
for a divorce and gets the sole custody of Niya. Abhay cannot bear this
and threatens Maya that he will take Niya away from her. Shortly after
the hearing, Abhay dies in a car accident. After the session, the
counselor (Mohan Kapoor) advices Maya to take Niya out for the weekend.
The mother daughter duo go to Panchgani where Abhay possesses Niya and
tells Maya that he will take Niya with him. Maya comes back to Mumbai
and consults a pandit (Darshan Jariwala) who tells Maya that as long as
Maya and Niya share a strong bond of love, Abhay won't be able to kill
either Maya or Niya. Some time later, the counselor tries to convince
Niya that her father is dead. Shortly after, the counselor is found dead
in his clinic. Later, Abhay kills Maya's friend and frames Maya. Maya
is admitted into a mental health facility. Maya's mother calls the
pandit home for a havan, which is interrupted by Abhay. He kills the
pandit, possesses his body and kills Maya's mother. Maya, in a desperate
bid to save her daughter kills herself as she remembers the pandit's
words that no mortal man can fight an Aatma. Maya becomes a spirit and
saves Niya just as Abhay is about to kill her. She also destroys Abhay's
spirit, thus ensuring Niya's safety for the rest of her life. In an
epilogue, Niya is shown celebrating her eighteenth birthday while Maya's
spirit fondly watches her.
