Before he was the "King of Bollywood," Shah Rukh Khan played Sunder Srivastava, a naive graduate who loses everything upon arriving in Mumbai. His luck changes when he enters a graveyard and meets Amar Kumar (Naseeruddin Shah), a ghost who was murdered 20 years prior. The film was a unique blend of:
Unlike the horror-centric ghost stories of the era, Chamatkar was heartwarming and funny.