Spooked! Bollywood’s Encounters With The Paranormal

A film-maker claims to have captured a ghost on camera.

A 1960s’ star shares a conversation with a vengeful spirit.

On a street in Venice, a writer-director meets the mysterious owners of a shop she can’t locate on the very street the next day.

An actress believes she saw a floating djinn chasing a man down a Mumbai street.

From the film sets and personal lives of Bollywood film-makers, actors, writers, singers, composers and cinematographers come accounts of unexplainable paranormal experiences that have baffled some and frightened others.

Heart-breaking farewells and after-life experiences. Black magic and exorcism. Auto-writing and messages from the dead. Spirits disrupting shoots and sometimes even becoming unlikely muses. Spooked! is a collection of thirty-six such stories.

True-life accounts from:

Juhi Chawla, Suparn S. Varma, Biswajit, Joy Bimal Roy, Rajniesh Duggall, Vikram Bhatt, Bhushan Patel, Jeet Gannguli, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Soham Shah, Vishal Furia, Ashok Kumar, Prem Sagar, Shakti Samanta, Ranjeeta Kaur, B Subhash, Arunaraje Patil, Divya Dutta, Wilson Louis, Esha Deol, Sangeeth Sivan, Abhishek Kapoor, Tanveer Bookwala, Praveen Morchhale and John Breakmas Kerketta, Akshay Oberoi, Tanuj Garg, Sachin Khot, Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, Sonal Sehgal, Prashen Kyawal, Alisha ‘Priti’ Kirpalani, Praveen Nischol, Vikram Khakhar, Shantanu Moitra, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Rajkummar Rao which mirror the mysteries, malice and miracles of a world beyond our own. Some enigmatic, some eerie. A few emotional and ethereal.