Mumbai,
(ANI):
Bollywood
filmmaker
Ram
Gopal
Varma
has
challenged
the
public
to
watch
his
upcoming
horror
film
Phoonk
2
alone
in
a
theatre,
promising
a
cash
prize
to
the
person
who
manages
to
do
so.
Varma
threw
the
challenge
while
promoting
his
film
in
India''s
showbiz
capital
Mumbai
in
the
western
state
of
Maharashtra
on
February
22.
Varma
said
he
would
award
five
lakh
rupees
to
the
one
who
would
be
able
to
finish
watching
the
film
all
by
himself
or
herself.
The
film
tells
the
story
of
an
evil
spirit
ruining
the
peace
of
a
family
that
has
shifted
to
a
new
town.
Varma
had
issued
the
same
challenge
before
the
release
of
Phoonk
in
2008,
but
the
person
who
took
on
the
challenge
was
unable
to
watch
the
film
for
even
30
minutes,
and
exited
the
theatre.
"When
a
person
says
that
he
doesn't
gets
scared,
it
is
like
you
are
challenging
the
film
to
scare
you.
So
in
the
wake
of
this,
we
had
put
a
contest
in
Phoonk
that
if
a
person
can
sit
alone
in
the
theatre
and
watch
the
film
without
getting
scared
and
completes
it,
he
will
be
rewarded
a
certain
amount
of
money
as
prize.
Now
after
a
certain
selection
process,
a
particular
guy
was
chosen
and
within
30
minutes
he
ran
out
of
the
theatre
and
obviously
did
not
get
the
prize
money," said
Varma.
He
said
that
some
people
had
protested
afterwards
that
the
contest
was
rigged.
Consequently,
Varma
has
now
come
up
with
a
scientific
evaluation
for
his
new
film's
fright
quotient,
and
has
declared
that
a
machine
would
be
installed
to
monitor
the
pulse
rate
and
heartbeat
of
the
person
who
watches
the
film
alone.
"The
new
contest
that
we
have
drawn
up
now
is
that
a
person
who
challenges
that
the
movie
cannot
scare
him,
he
is
going
to
be
put
in
a
theatre
and
we
are
going
to
attach
him
with
an
Electrocardiography
machine," said
Varma.
The
readings
of
the
machine
would
be
shown
live
on
a
screen
outside
the
theatre
to
both
the
media
and
the
crew
of
the
film.
To
assure
that
the
viewer
does
not
close
his
eyes
while
watching
the
film,
a
night
camera
would
also
be
hidden
inside
the
theatre.
Directed
by
Milind
Gadagkar
and
produced
by
Ram
Gopal
Varma,
Phoonk
2
is
a
sequel
to
his
earlier
film,
''Phoonk''
-
the
word
refers
to
a
ritual
in
Indian
black
magic
-
and
is
a
supernatural
thriller.
Varma
has
said
that
''Phoonk
2'' is
much
scarier
than
the
prequel.