Purani Haveli (film)

''Purani Haveli'' (''The Old Mansion'') is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language horror film presented by Ramsay brothers. The soundtracks were composed by Ajit Singh.

Plot

The film opens with a young couple Raja and Rita driving through a dense forest at night. Tired and sleepy, they decide to stop for the night, and find a ''haveli'' (mansion) nearby. They fall asleep in the outskirts of the mansion. Around midnight, the husband suddenly hears a terrifying roar and gets up to investigate. Then a horrible monster attacks him. His wife wakes up hearing his screams. She tries to rescue him but only gets his severed arm. Then the wife too is killed by the monster. An old man Narendra appears on the scene, a bit late but eventually traps the monster in an underground cage by scaring him with a crucifix. Then he attaches the crucifix to the latch to keep him from escaping.

The story then shifts to thakur Kumar, an industrialist who lives with his wife Seema and niece Anita in Bombay. Since her parents death, Anita has been living with her uncle who is also the legal custodian of her father's estate. Seema wants Anita to marry her brother Vikram so that they can milk out the estate but Anita does not approve of Vikram and is in love with a photographer named Sunil. Kumar visits the mansion with the previous owner to buy the building. Both of them reach there past midnight. They are killed by the evil forces controlled by the monster. Later Anita too is forcibly sent there by her aunt with Vikram and a large group of some twenty-three friends to the mansion for an outing. Sunil too reaches there the very next morning and thrashes Vikram for attacking Anita in the woods. One of Vikram's friends is killed by the iron statue near the first floor railing. Many interesting things happen in due course. Seema and Vikram are becoming increasingly frustrated; Anita is about to come of age and reclaim her estate, while Vikram remains unsuccessful at wooing her. Seema hatches a plot and lures Sunil into the tehkhana (dungeon) where Vikram is waiting for both of them and attacks Sunil from behind. Poor sunil becomes unconscious and then they lock up the dungeon after leaving Sunil there thinking that he will eventually die and a lone Anita may agree for marrying Vikram.

Sunil recovers in the dungeon and wanders around till he hears the monster roar in his cage. He almost opens the door of the cage by loosening the chains when the old man suddenly appears and stops him from doing so. Sunil asks the old man about the entity under the door. Narender promises to tell the truth after they go outside. He leads Sunil out of the dungeon tells him the tragic story of his life. The old man reveals that twenty years ago he had arrived there from the city since his wife had undergone labour pains and it was necessary for her to deliver the baby and hence he ended up at the mansion for help. However he was repeatedly warned by a nun to go away and not let the delivery happen there because according to her, there was something extremely inhuman and unholy lurking within the mansion and if the delivery took place that would eventually lead to the birth of Evil. Owing to the adverse condition of his wife, the man did not pay heed to the nun and his wife gave birth to their baby. However he was shocked when he realised that his wife gave birth to the devil and she died herself in the process and the nun was right. The grief-stricken man then locked the monster in the cage with the help of the nun and spent 20 years of his life in the same mansion so as to prevent the monster from hurting anyone. Vikram goes back to the dungeon to check for himself that Sunil is dead. He hears the monster and unknowingly releases him getting himself killed. The monster now free goes on a violent rampage, killing people everywhere. Everybody vacates the mansion at once fleeing by bus. Seema unwisely stays behind, tries to flee from another route and she gets caught, raped and killed by the monster.

The monster makes his way to the bus that has broken down by a church and the monster kills two girls and the old man as well. The monster enters the church and is tormented by the impulse of the Almighty. He is finally impaled by a cross and his body set ablaze ending his reign of terror once and for all. The film ends with Sunil and Anita lighting candles at the church and starting a new life together.

Cast

*Deepak Parashar as Sunil
*Amita Nangia as Anita
*Satish Shah as the twins Mangu and Kala Gangu
*Neelam Mehra as Seema Kumar
* Vijay Arora as Kumar
*Shehzad Khan as Anand
*Tej Sapru as Vikram
*Shobha as Shobha
*Pinchoo Kapoor as Rana Saheb
*Narendra Nath as the old man
* Manik Irani as the Monster
*Anil Dhawan as Raja (cameo)
*Priti Sapru as Rita (cameo)
*Bhushan Tiwari as Dhambar Singh
*A.K Agnihotri as Jyoti
*Geetha Singh
*Leela Mishra as Old woman in village
*Raj Kishore as Sher Khan
*Shehnaz Kudia as Priya
*Sunil Dhawan as Shanker (Cameo)
*Chhote Ustad as Chhote Dada
*Tina Ghai as Bhijli
*Sadhana Khote

Music

#"Kaise Main Bhulaoon" - Anuradha Paudwal
#"Sangmarmar Sa Tha" - Suresh Wadkar
#"Aata Hai Mujhko Yaad" - Suresh Wadkar

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References

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1989 films
1980s Hindi-language films
Indian horror films
1989 horror films
Films set in country houses
Hindi-language horror films