History Film / Darr

A beautiful young woman, Kiran, has recently graduated from college is engaged to marry a Naval officer, Sunil. As she and Sunil prepare for their wedding, she has a series of telephone and personal encounters with a stranger whose face she never sees. He tells her that he loves her and expresses hostility toward her fiancé.

We are now introduced to Rahul, who has secretly loved Kiran during all their time at college together. As we first meet him, he is walking along a ledge at the top of a tall building while plucking petals from a rose and saying “she loves me, she loves me not” (or rather the Hindi equivalent), stepping closer to the end of the ledge with each petal. He is obviously prepared to walk right off the building if it turns out “she loves me not.” Rahul has continuous slideshows of huge photos of Kiran projected on all the walls of his bedroom and enjoys long telephone conversations with his mother, who just happens to have died when he was a little boy. His father is Sunil's commanding officer in the Navy. Although unaware of Rahul's fixation on Kiran, he is a tad bit concerned about the sanity of his son.

* ChekhovsSkill: Sunil's [[spoiler:demonstrated skill with naval warfare]] comes in ''really'' handy once things start to unravel.

* EvilLaugh: Rahul, of course. Interestingly he has pretty much the same laugh in ''Film/DilwaleDulhaniaLeJayenge'' but in that movie he plays a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, so the laugh becomes somewhat annoying rather than sinister.

* VerbalTic: Creator/ShahRukhKhan's famous stutter was put to good use and his "K-k-k-Kiran" became a CharacterCatchPhrase among the audience.

* {{Yandere}}: Rahul is a love-fueled, crazed stalker who fawns over Kiran and will do anything to get her love, though she is unaware of this.

A beautiful young woman, Kiran, who recently graduated from college is engaged to marry a Naval officer, Sunil. As she and Sunil prepare for their wedding, she has a series of telephone and personal encounters with a stranger whose face she never sees. He tells her that he loves her and expresses hostility toward her fiance.

We are now introduced to Rahul, this person who has secretly loved Kiran during all their time at college together. As we first meet him, he is walking along a ledge at the top of a tall building. He is plucking petals from a rose and saying “she loves me, she loves me not” (or rather the Hindi equivalent) and stepping closer to the end of the ledge with each petal he plucks. He obviously is prepared to walk right off the building if it turns out “she loves me not.” We learn that he has continuous slide shows of huge photos of Kiran projected on all the walls of his bedroom and that he enjoys long telephone conversations with his mother who just happens to have died when he was a little bitty boy. His dad is Sunil's commanding officer in the Navy. Although unaware of Rahul's fixation on Kiran, he is a tad bit concerned about the sanity of his son.

Rahul is a charming and handsome young man who often hides his insanity and manages to ingratiate himself with Sunil and other members of Kiran's family, although Kiran herself never meets him. The steps he takes to secure his love for himself have ever more frightening results for Kiran and Sunil.

* ActionHero: Sunil established as such early in the movie as he singlehandedly rescues a kidnapped child from a cruise ship. His body count was 11 in just a few short minutes. He wore a black bandana on his head ninja style. It was hilarious.

* HollywoodHealing: people in the movie do major things after receiving major injuries.

* LighterAndSofter: Shahrukh portrayed a creepy stalker in Anjaam which was released a year later with none of the sympathetic characteristics of his character in this movie.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Some guys make the mistake of harassing Kiran in front of both Sunil and Rahul. Sunil brawls with them while remaining fairly in control, but Rahul goes absolutely ballistic and nearly beats one of the men to death.

-->''"When love crosses [[LoveMakesYouCrazy limits]], it becomes devotion. And when devotion goes astray, it becomes an [[{{Yandere}} obsession]]. This story too is about the obsession of love. It has the truth that was present in the love of Layla and Majnun. It has the intensity that was present in the hearts of Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet. It has the emotions like in the songs of Heer and Ranjha. But it also has one more element.. something which has not been featured in any love story so far: [[TitleDrop Fear]]."''
* VerbalTic: Creator/ShahRukhKhan's famous stutter was put to good use and his "K-k-k-Kiran" became a CatchPhrase among the audience.

!! ''Daar'' contains examples of:

* EvilLaugh: Rahul, of course. Interestingly he has pretty much the same laugh in ''Film/DilwaleDulhaniaLeJayenge'' but in that movie he plays a JerkWithAHeartOfGold}}, so the laugh becomes somewhat annoying rather than sinister.

* StalkerWithACrush: The whole premise of the film.
* VerbalTic: Creator/ShahRukhKhan's famous stutter was put to good use and his Kkkkiran became a CatchPhrase among the audience

* {{Yandere}}: Rahul is a love-fueled, crazed stalker who fawns over Kiran, and will do anything to get her love, though she is unaware of this.

* EvilLaugh: Rahul, of course. Interestingly he has pretty much the same laugh in Bollywood/DilwaleDulhaniaLeJayenge but in that movie he plays a {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}, so the laugh becomes somewhat annoying rather than sinister.