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{{Infobox film
| name = Hawa
| image = Hawa film.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Guddu Dhanoa]]
| producer = Guddu Dhanoa Santosh Dhanoa
| writer = [[Sutanu Gupta]] Sanjay Masoom
| starring = [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] [[Shahbaz Khan (actor)|Shahbaz Khan]] [[Mukesh Tiwari]] [[Hansika]]
| music = Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen Surendra Singh Sodhi
| cinematography = Sripad Natu
| editing = A. Muthu
| studio =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2003|7|4|df=y}}
| runtime = 128 min<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/hawa-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0znty5mzu|title=Hawa|website=[[British Board of Film Classification]]}}</ref>
| country = India
| language = Hindi
| budget = {{INR}}3 crore<ref name=BO>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=542|title=Hawa - Movie|website=[[Box Office India]]}}</ref>
| gross = {{INR}}5.89 crore<ref name=BO/>
}}
'''''Hawa''''' ({{translation|Wind}}) is a 2003 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[supernatural horror film]] directed by [[Guddu Dhanoa]]. Starring [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]], it is an unofficial remake of the 1983 American film ''[[The Entity]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/jun/28deepa.htm|title=Sexy anytime, anywhere|website=[[Rediff.com]]|access-date=28 June 2003}}</ref> and was filmed in [[Manali, Himachal Pradesh|Manali]], a location selected by Dhanoa after his car broke down over a narrow bridge during the shoot of ''[[Jaal: The Trap]]'' (also featuring Tabu), and prompted him to make a horror film situated there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/jul/04guddu.htm|title='Tabu is my Sunny Deol in Hawa'|website=[[Rediff.com]]|access-date=4 July 2003}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title='Hawa': Tabu is the sole saving grace |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/jul/04hawa.htm |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=www.rediff.com |archive-date=29 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429010859/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/jul/04hawa.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hungama |first=Bollywood |date=2003-04-23 |title=Tabu in horror flick 'Hawa': : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]] |url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/tabu-in-horror-flick-hawa/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |language=en |archive-date=27 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727155216/https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/tabu-in-horror-flick-hawa/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Tabu signed on for the lead role of a mother with two children holed up in a haunted house, as she wanted to understand what ghosts and the supernatural were all about.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/may/07tabu.htm|title='All this appreciation makes me feel nervous'|website=[[Rediff.com]]|access-date=7 May 2003}}</ref> It also marked [[Hansika Motwani]]'s on-screen debut as a child artist.

''Hawa'' was released on 4 July 2003.<ref name=BO/> It was later dubbed into [[Telugu language|Telugu]] as ''Naa Intlo Oka Roju''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0F_hJW4Uik|title=Naa Intlo Oka Roju Telugu Full Movie | Tabu | Hansika | Best Telugu Horror Movies | Telugu FilmNagar|website=[[YouTube]]|access-date=3 August 2018}}</ref> and in [[Tamil language|Tamil]] as ''Raja Leelai''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-details/raja-leelai/movieshow/61372920.cms|title=Raja Leelai Movie: Showtimes, Review, Songs, Trailer, Posters, News & Videos|website=[[Times of India]]}}</ref>

==Plot==
The beautiful Sanjana is a divorcee who moves to a hillside house, as she cannot afford a house in the city. To earn her living, she runs her stepfather's antique shop. However, it is not long before strange occurrences begin near and in her home. One day, a [[Tibetan people|Tibetan]] old lady gives her an antique [[locket]] at her antique shop and leaves. Sanjana sells it to a tourist couple for [[Indian 500-rupee note|500 rupees]]. Sanjana finds the lady on the way to her home to return the money, but she discovers that the lady was dead. The locket is returned to Sanjana by the tourist as the Tibetan lady keeps haunting the couple to make them return it.

Later, Sanjana is tortured and physically raped multiple times by an invisible demon, first in her room, then in the shower, and then in front of her own kids. Her dog becomes possessed soon after and attacks her and Vicky, her younger brother. Sanjana consults a psychiatrist who doesn't believe her, despite telling him multiple times. Soon, the invisible demon has sex with Sanjana, for which she gets an orgasm but soon regrets having sex with an invisible being. After a while, the demon takes away her younger daughter from Sanjana. She calls her psychiatric friend, and he brings a [[parapsychologist]]. Sanjana comes to learn that the demon comes from an old well, where the tribals used to push down and kill criminals as punishment. Due to lightning striking the well, one soul who was a rapist was thrown in the well and killed; he has now escaped, and he fell for Sanjana. The parapsychologist opens the well from which all the evil spirits come out and attacks him.

Sanjana jumps into the well to bring back her daughter. There all the spirits get combined into a huge demon. Sanjana throws the Tibetan locket to hit the demon, which then dissolves. The soul of Sanjana's father comes as an angel and returns her younger daughter.

Sanjana prepares to leave her house, and suddenly the door closes. A demonic voice calls her, and she opens the door but finds nothing. Before leaving, her younger daughter suddenly runs to the house, and the door closes.

==Cast==
* [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] as Sanjana
* [[Shahbaz Khan (actor)|Shahbaz Khan]] as Dr. Asif Ali
* [[Mukesh Tiwari]] as Psychiatrist-exorcist (Tantrik)
* [[Imran Khan (TV actor)|Imran Khan]] as Vicky, Sanjana's brother
* Grusha Kapoor as Pooja (as Grusha Grover)
* [[Vishwajeet Pradhan]] as Pooja's husband
* [[Amit Behl]] as Vijay, Sanjana's husband
* [[Avtar Gill]] as Sanjana's father/ Angel
* [[Hansika Motwani|Hansika Motwani]] as Sasha, Sanjana's elder daughter
* Hansika Motwani as Misha, Sanjana's younger daughter
* Suresh Chatwal as Real Estate Agent

==Critical reception==
Taran Adarsh of [[Bollywood Hungama]] gave the film 2.5 stars and claimed that "the film merges two lethal aspects, sex and violence, which should prove a path-breaking exercise for the Hindi viewer."
Suraj Das of Planet Bollywood, gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and said that 'Self-respecting moviegoers looking for quality film rather than shameful sexual exploitation should steer far clear of this compost.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hungama |first=Bollywood |title=Hawa Review 2.5/5 {{!}} Hawa Movie Review {{!}} Hawa 2003 Public Review {{!}} Film Review |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]] |url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/hawa/critic-review/hawa-movie-review/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |language=en |archive-date=14 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714152827/https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/hawa/critic-review/hawa-movie-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref>' Anjum N from [[Rediff]], gave the film a negative review and said that "Tabu is the only saving grace of the movie'", and "it's rather sad that all her effort has been wasted in a movie like Hawa."<ref name=":0" />

==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0369516|Hawa}}

[[Category:2003 Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian supernatural horror films]]
[[Category:Indian horror film remakes]]
[[Category:2003 films]]
[[Category:2003 horror films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Surinder Sodhi]]
[[Category:Indian remakes of American films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Guddu Dhanoa]]
[[Category:Unofficial film adaptations]]

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PATTABHI RAM TURLAPATI at 12:01, 1 May 2026