Alisha Khanna's (Kalki Koechlin) life turned upside down a year ago due to a road accident that killed her loving husband Yash and her unborn child. She went comatose for sometime and when she revived, she suffered from a partial memory loss and was diagnosed with DID (dissociative identity disorder). Her sister Ankita Paul (Bhumika Chawla) brings her to her idyllic hillside residence in Himachal, hoping that Alisha will recover from her psychological suffering and the writer's block has taken over. It's family time with Ankita, her husband Peter (Sanjay Suri) and their daughter Kritika; Alisha is looking forward to getting back her mojo.
But it doesn't last too long, Alisha starts seeing and feeling the presence of a girl who is trying to tell her something. It's not too long before she is found in the woods, suffering asphyxiation. Simultaneously, a young girl from Kritika's school is found murdered in the woods with a strange wound in her torso - like they have been pierced by a pair of horns. The death brings back the memories of a similar murder 20 years ago, that of another young girl Ayesha - and slowly, skeletons start tumbling out of the cupboard. Prominent people are suddenly in the eye of the storm, and it starts blowing over the Paul family. A local tribal legendary deity, Ukala, shoots to prominence during the investigation.
Bhram doesn't conform to the horror genre. It's a psychological suspense thriller and a murder mystery with a semblance of the supernatural. The events from twenty years ago are intricately related to those unfolding now, and Alisha must was through them, and with the local police, solve the mystery. Kalki is very convincing as Alisha and Bhumika Chawla is solid as support. Sanjay Suri, Satyadeep Misra, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Eijaz Khan weave a canvas of palpable tension, intrigue and suspense. The backdrop of the hills and woods is stunning. Bhram is one of the better suspense productions of recent times, director Sangeeth Sivan, cinematographers Suman Sahu, Vidushi Tiwari and Sandeep Yadav and SFX by Sandeep Kumar Jayaswal are worth an applause.
