| Synopsis: This 1984 Bollywood horror opus was a career-defining hit for India's top horror filmmakers, Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay. The epic storyline begins with a prologue in which the fearsome Saamri (Ajay Agarwai) is beheaded for his homicidal crimes against a village -- but not before he lays a curse on the family of his executioner: that any woman in that family will become possessed and die a terrible, painful death of she tries to have a child. Decades later, the last surviving heir of the family, Thakar ... Full Synopsis
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| Anyone interested in finding the meeting point between classic horror cinema and Bollywood filmmaking would do well to see Purana Mandir. Directors Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay had made several horror films prior to Purana Mandir but this was their buggest success, the film that defined their take on the genre. If viewed through the eyes of a Bollywood filmgoer, it makes perfect sense: in Purana Mandir, ... Read Review | |
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