Darna Zaroori Hai (translation: Fear is necessary) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language anthology horror film produced by Ram Gopal Varma.

It stars a host of Bollywood actors including Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Riteish Deshmukh, Bipasha Basu, Randeep Hooda, Arjun Rampal, Mallika Sherawat, Sonali Kulkarni, Rajpal Yadav and more.

His mother warns him not to take the graveyard shortcut because it's Friday the 13th, a new moon night, and witches might appear.

He safely arrives at the cinema, buys his regular snacks, gets some change back, watches the movie, and returns home.

It turns out the footsteps were actually the coins jingling in his pocket as he walked and the witch he saw was actually a poster for a movie, Darna Zaroori Hai.

The first story is about a professor, Sunil Khanna, who is giving tuition to one of his Biotechnology students, Altaaf, at home.

The frightened student tries to run saying that his father is waiting for him, but the professor takes him in front of the mirror and points at his reflection.

One day, the three are visited by an insurance agent Prabhakar Pandit who keeps warning them about the risks of life and that accidents are never predicted.

He takes out many things such as a knife, a rope, a poison and a gun, which all represent different ways to die in life.

After the story, another child, Aditi, leaves the room to get water, but she comes back meeting the same fate as the two previous ones.

Karan still thinks that she is playing a prank, but when her voice turns ghostly, he falls to the floor and dies in shock.

Riya takes off her mask, which was stained with fake blood, and a microphone that changed her voice to make it sound ghostly.

But the mother is shocked to find that Ajay is possessed by the spirit of a woman, who turns out to be her daughter-in-law, Sandhya.

It is revealed that the mother-in-law, her husband and her son had immolated the newly-wedded bride and her spirit has returned for revenge.

The lights go off and turn back on again, this time to reveal his friends, all of whom are now ghosts, giving him eerie smiles.

Realizing what is going on, the boy tries to make a frantic escape out of the house, but finds all the doors to be jammed and locked.

The old lady's hair is snow-white and scattered; her frightening smile gives the boy a heart attack and he dies at the scene.

He explains that once he had left her for hours to get her some medication (just as the old lady had told the children), and when he returned, he found her dead.