The spoilt bratty superstar's spotboy (Ishteyak) is pulled into a gruesome death even as he chants mantras to protect himself.

While in Varma's previous comparatively-tacky horror outing 'Phoonk', god felled the devil, in 'Agyaat' nothing works. You are doomed in the jungle. No force can protect you.

As one member after another of the film-within-film gets eliminated, Varma seems to be spoofing Agatha Christie's '10 Little Indians'.

There are dollops of tantalizing irony in the way the typical and tight hierarchy in a film unit evaporates as imminent peril puts people in perilous positions. The repressed spotboy's outburst against the spoilt superstar played by Gautam Rode, every inch the despicable brat, is a masterly manoeuvre designed to show how fear melts all class differences.

Portions of the brief supernatural whodunit are unintentionally funny. But all said and done, 'Agyaat' gives us enough spine-chilling moments to make us wonder at the end, who the hell is killing all these people???

The grisly plot weaves in humane moments. Nitin Reddy, who makes his Bollywood debut with this film, is confident, honest and has a skilful body language. He and his assistant Sameera (Rasika Duggal) have this very believable bonding that perhaps Shah Rukh Khan and Karisma Kapoor had in 'Dil To Pagal Hai'.

Nonetheless, this unknown jungle remains chilling and ominous.