Ram Gopal Varma sued for 'mental torture'

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and his actors in Bhoot are in the dock, charged with mental torture by Kishoregiri Bhupatgiri Goswami of Rajkot.

The Rajkot district court has ordered the police to probe into the charge, which was filed on July 7. It further instructed the police to submit their report within a month.

Goswami, an employee at a courier company, said he underwent immense mental torture and was unable to sleep after watching the 'horror' scenes in the film. He alleged Bhoot continued to haunt him even 20 days after watching the film and that 'the mental trauma had affected his physical activities.'

Bhoot stars Ajay Devgan and Urmila Matondkar, and costars Fardeen Khan, Rekha, Nana Patekar, Tanuja, Victor Banerjee, Barkha Madan and Seema Biswas. The story centers around an urban couple who move into a haunted apartment, and how the husband tries to save his wife after she is possessed by a ghost.

Goswami has found a sympathiser in the Rajkot-based Bharat Vigyan Jatha, a rationalist organisation which issued a
press release saying such movies should be banned.

Rajkot Police Commissioner Sanjay Shrivastav admitted the police are perplexed as to how to probe this rather unusual case.

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