Ghost) is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and stars an ensemble cast of Ajay Devgn, Urmila Matondkar, Nana Patekar, Rekha, Fardeen Khan and Tanuja.

The broker of the apartment introduces Vishal to the owner of the apartment, Mr. Thakkar (Amar Talwar) and explains to Vishal that a widow named Manjeet Khosla (Barkha Madan), the previous resident, committed suicide after killing her own son.

Swati is extremely annoyed with Vishal for hiding the fact of the previous tenants, although he disbelieves the notions of ghosts and bad luck.

Vishal feels something is wrong and goes to the ground floor, only to see the murdered watchman whose neck had been snapped backwards.

Inspector Liyaqat Qureshi (Nana Patekar), who reaches the apartment to investigate the death, becomes suspicious of the duo and their strange behavior.

It is then revealed that many years ago, Sanjay came to visit his father and developed a lust towards Manjeet after he saw her in the apartment.

He broke into her house, and attempted to profess his lust, but when she rejected him, he pushed her and she accidentally fell off the balcony and died.

Manjeet's young son witnessed the murder, upon which Sanjay hires the watchman to kill him.

Meanwhile, in the lockup, Qureshi tells Sanjay that death sentences are light penalties for a criminal like him.

He starts begging for mercy, but his voice soon fades out as Manjeet draws closer; it is implied that she kills Sanjay.

[10] He wanted to break the stereotypes of a typical Indian horror of "a woman in a white sari, mists and screeching."

Terming the film a remake of Raat in some sense, and citing The Exorcist as a huge influence on Bhoot, Varma also included a message at the beginning of the film where he cautioned pregnant women and people with weak hearts to view it at their own risk.

[12] Taran Adarsh wrote about Matondkar's performance, Narendra Kusnur of Mid-Day was similarly positive of Matondkar, writing that her "transformation from a simple woman to a possessed spirit is smooth, and she emotes fear very naturally," and concluded: Deepa Gumaste of Rediff.com mentioned that Bhoot gave her the same experience of terror as in Cape Fear (1991) and said: Anita Gates of The New York Times noted, "...at some point the overdone scary music becomes part of the fun.

Karan Johar's Dharma Productions acquired the title rights of the Bhoot film series from Ram Gopal Varma to make their own franchise, the first part of a planned trilogy Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship starring Vicky Kaushal, Ashutosh Rana, and Bhumi Pednekar, directed by Bhanu Pratap Singh was released in 2020.