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Demon

Demon

Original name: Rakkhosh
English name: Demon
Year: 2018
Run time: 112'
Language: Hindi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: India
Director: Abhijit Kokate , Srivinay Salian
Producer: Santosh Deshpande, Sayali Deshpande
Cast:  Sanjay Mishra, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Priyanka Bose
Screenplay: Srivinay Salian
Cinematographer: Basile Pierrat
Editor: Dinesh Gopal Poojari
Sound Designer: Sunny Sikka
Music Composer: Ashim Kemson, Swati Marwal
Costume Designer: Sachin Lovalekar
Production Designer: Rita Ghosh
Production Company: Sd Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd.

Selected Filmography:

  • Abhijit Kokate and Srivinay Salian
  • Rakkosh

Director’s Biography:

Abhijit Kokate is a award winning film editor of the acclaimed film Queen. He worked 6 years with Ram Gopal Varma and Anurag Kashyap. He directed a Discovery channel adventure travel show Off-road with Gul Panag.

Srivinay Salian is a screenwriter and filmmaker based in Mumbai, India. In a decade of his working his has done - feature films, TV series, short films, corporate films or documentaries. Currently he is working as Creative Head for renowned Bollywood filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, and already completed 3 web series which are released on digital.

Synopsis:

Rakkhosh is a first-person account of BirsaSekhri, who is diagnosed as a schizophrenic patient. Still there are few who think he is possessed. As if in a constant loop, Birsa still draws parallels between his past & present lives, juxtaposing the people in present with those in past.

Birsa is an ordinary guy, who has for long curbed his agony, that leads to manifestation of an alter ego, Rakkhosh. For Birsa, Rakkhosh is real & there to protect him from people who hurt him.

The line between imagination & reality further blurs for him, when an accomplished psychiatrist uses him as a guinea pig for unethical psychological research. Crux of the story lies in the investigation Birsa himself is doing to find out the monster behind disappearance of patients in the mental asylum.