Thriller fever grips Bollywood, Talaash to be 2012's closing deal

Aamir Khan will be back this Friday with Reema Kagti's Talaash. With its plot kept tightly under wraps, the crime-thriller is generating a lot of curiosity. Meanwhile, we take a look at the best thrillers of 2012 and next year's most promising ones.VOTE FOR YOUR FAV THRILLER NOW

Aamir Khan will be back this Friday with Reema Kagti's Talaash. With its plot kept tightly under wraps, the crime-thriller is generating a lot of curiosity.

Talaash
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Director: Reema Kagti
Cast: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukerji
Plot: A cop, a housewife and a prostitute get entangled in a mystery that links their lives in unexpected ways.
USP: Lethal combination of Aamir, Kareena and Rani + Perfectionist Khan's success rate
Releasedate: November 30

Meanwhile, we take a look at best thrillers of 2012 and next year's most promising ones.

TOP 5 THRILLERS OF 2012

2012 has been a year of thrillers with Talaash to be the closing deal. While not all managed to create an impact, some definitely thrilled the audience.

Raaz 3D
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Bipasha Basu, Esha Gupta
Plot: A filmmaker must save his love from the black magic of a wicked woman who has become blind in love, lust and passion.
USP: Emraan-Bipasha paired up for the first time and Bipasha returned to playing an antagonist
Releasedate: September 7

Ek Tha Tiger
Genre: Romance/Thriller
Director: Kabir Khan
Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif
Plot: RAW agent Tiger is on a mission to retrieve information from a scientist in Dublin.
USP: Ex-lovers reunited onscreen and of course, Salman mania needs no introduction.
Releasedate: August 15

Genre: Political/Thriller

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee

Plot: Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe the incident and the veils of falsehood begin to drop.

USP: The realistic set-up and gripping screenplay.

Releasedate: June 8

Jannat 2
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Randeep Hooda
Plot: After fixing matches in Jannat (2008), Emraan Hashmi returns to being the greedy KKC Sonu Dilli in its sequel.
USP: A complete A-rated Emraan Hashmi film.
Releasedate: May 4

Kahaani
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Sujoy Ghosh
Cast: Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chatterjee
Plot: A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata, but everyone she questions denies having ever met her husband.
USP: Post The Dirty Picture success, Vidya Balan in her pregnant avatar created a lot of buzz.
Releasedate: March 9

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TOP 5 THRILLERS OF 2013

Thriller fever will not end with this year. Come 2013, and Bollywood has an interesting mix on plate.



Race 2

Genre: Action/Thriller

Director: Abbas-Mustan

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ameesha Patel

Plot: A son decided to take revenge after his father goes into depression and the race (where betrayal is survival) begins for the second time.

USP: After hit Race, duo Abbas-Mustan is back to twist your mind and senses with an interesting star cast.

Releasedate: January 25



Genre: Suspense/Thriller

Director: Vishesh Bhatt

Cast: Randeep Hooda, Aditi Rao Hydari

Plot: Murder 3 will not be an erotic film but will have sensuality. Other details are not known yet.

USP: The Murder franchise, which started with Mallika Sherawat in the first part and Jacqueline Fernandez in the second, will now be taken forward by Aditi Rao Hydari.

Releasedate: February 15

Genre: Crime/Thriller

Director: Sanjay Gupta

Cast: John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Kangna Ranaut, Tusshar Kapoor, Sonu Sood

Plot: Based on the first-ever registered encounter by the Mumbai Police, which took place on November 1, 1982.

USP: A sequel to Shootout at Lokhandwala, the cast is interesting and the plot gripping.

Releasedate: May 1



Satyagraha

Genre: Political/Thriller

Director: Prakash Jha

Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpai

Plot: The film is expected to be based on the current scenario where the middle-class all over the world is in anguish with the system and is gearing up to renegotiate democracy.

USP: A Prakash Jha thriller starring an exciting mix of actors.

Releasedate: August 15



Genre: Thriller/Horror

Director: Bhushan Patel

Cast: Sunny Leone

Plot: The original film revolved around the video footage of a girl named Ragini and was loosely inspired from the real story of a girl from Delhi. The sequel too is inspired by a real-life story.

USP: After Jism 2, this will be Sunny Leone's second Bollywood outing.

Releasedate: October 11



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