Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Purana Mandir

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.
We have another episode from the past for you here today.
This one originally published six thirty, twenty twenty three. In it,
we cover the Ramsey Brothers nineteen eighty four film Purana Mandar.
This one is a lot of fun. This was our

(00:26):
first dive into Bollywood horror. I say first, we haven't
actually done a second Bollywood horror film yet. So as
we mentioned in this episode, if you have suggestions Ramsey
Brothers pictures or other examples of Bollywood horror or science
fiction that we should cover, write in with your suggestions. Okay,

(00:48):
let's go ahead and jump right in.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Today. This is an exciting intrigue in the Weird House
Cinema catalog because we are going to be covering our
first film from India. It's always fun when we can
dive into a new film culture, a new national film tradition.
And I know for me personally Indian cinema, Bollywood in particular,

(01:31):
this is a whole area of film that I really
don't have much of any exposure to. So I was
excited to watch this movie research it a bit because
not only is it is it Bollywood, it is Bollywood horror.
We're going to be talking about Purana mandir a if
not only a horror movie, but like the horror movie

(01:53):
from India from nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
This is also my first full viewing of a Bollywood movie.
I've watched a lot of clips from them before. Often,
like people will clip out really great musical numbers from
them and put them online, so I've seen plenty of those,
but yeah, this was the first time I've seen the
whole thing. But man, this movie was mostly great, at
some points awful, and really got my mind cranking about

(02:18):
the what it means to have musical numbers in a film.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yes, because one of the if you don't know anything,
or you don't know much about Indian cinema and Bollywood
in particular, you may know that there are musical numbers.
It's a big song and dance numbers. And I think
at times this can be like knowing this can be
kind of like a barrier to entry. You might think, well,
I don't know if I'm up for that. I mean,
I'm not a musical fan. Or even if you decide, oh,

(02:44):
well there's a horror genre, I want to get into that,
but then you realize there are musical numbers, maybe you're
going to hold back. But yeah, it's interesting to sort
of break that down, like, well, how different is that
from anything we watch over here? You know, we have
this have a genre of musical obviously it goes in
various directions, but also we have strong musical segments in

(03:06):
various pictures where you'll feature a particular track. It just
maybe you don't have characters actually singing that song.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yes, I agree with all of that. I mean it
really got me thinking, why don't American horror movies tend
to have musical numbers in them? And if they did,
why would we say, well, actually, this is just a
totally different genre now it is a musical. Why couldn't
all genres have musical numbers, Because, as you say, music
features in other movies, diagetic and non diegetic music features

(03:36):
in as long as the characters aren't singing, it's not
a musical. But there's no particular reason I think of why.
The fact that characters do sing in a movie should
make that a separate genre from whatever the narrative content is.
So yeah, I think we should have more fantasy, sci
fi movies, whatever, horror movies that have characters singing songs,

(03:58):
because songs are great. Now that I've experienced a Bollywood film,
it in no way takes away from my enjoyment of
this as a cheesy horror movie, and I don't really
see why you would resist. I think maybe there's one
impulse that says, like musical numbers could take away from
the seriousness of the film. There's another that says it

(04:18):
could take away from the quote realism. I'd say, if
you're overly concerned with either of those, maybe you shouldn't
be making a horror movie.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I think another sort of barrier to entry, or sort
of expectation is that might be for many and it
was kind of this way for me. Is I expected
going into a musical number to be clunkier and take
me out of the picture more. And there are sections
of the film that do manage to take me out
of the picture and are clunky, but the musical numbers,

(04:49):
like you get the impression like this is down to
like an art, just in Indian cinema in general, and
so if a movie's going into a musical number, they
know what they're do doing, like you're gonna have a
smooth takeoff and landing with the emotional arc of whatever
that particular song happens to be.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Every time a song kicked in, I was like, Okay,
now we're cooking. Even the kind of sad, slower paced songs.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, yeah, because it's not coming out of nowhere, It's
coming out of what's going on emotionally with the characters,
or especially towards the end of this picture, with like
the driving nature of the plot.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh yes, the human Sacrifice song I think was my
favorite song in the movie.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
All right, So again, this was my first Bollywood film.
I'd never watched one in its entirety, like you had
seen some clips, so I had to do a little
extra reading about everything. There's a lot of things about
Bollywood cinema that I was not familiar with and just
did not know about. So, for instance, bear with me
if you already knew all of this. But when we
talk about Bollywood cinema, we're talking about films specifically coming

(05:54):
out of the Mumbai Film industry Mumbai formerly known as Bombay.
You get it, like Bombay plus Hollywood equals Bollywood. And
while it's perhaps the most well known internationally of the
various Indian film centers, Indian cinema is not a monolith
like India itself. India cinema consists of various languages and

(06:16):
cultures and in the different cinematic traditions and centers have
like different strengths, different histories and so forth. So some
of the various extras on the disc or discs that
we looked at for this as well as some articles,
it was a real learning experience for me to familiarize
myself somewhat with this. I mean it goes beyond genre

(06:40):
with this, just whole realm of cinema.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
By the way, just as one example of other film
subcultures of India, I know, there is also the so
called Tollywood, which refers to to Hollywood with a tea,
referring to films made in the Telugu language, which is
one of the many languages of India.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah. Yeah, And then likewise you have in Pakistan you
have Lollywood that is centered in Lahore. I didn't know
anything about Lollywood either until I started absorbing some of
these extras on these discs. But this film Parana Mandha
from eighty four is very much Bollywood. It is a
Bollywood film, it is a Bollywood horror film, and it's

(07:22):
going to be interesting to discuss exactly what all of
that means, because, to a very large degree, the filmmakers here,
the Ramsey Brothers, are pushing into an area that had
traditionally been less successful and more of fringe within Bollywood cinema.
But still it's going to have things in it that
are very much part of the Bollywood blueprint, and that

(07:45):
includes a compelling story of starcrossed lovers, a fair amount
of family melodrama, multiple music numbers. Now this was interesting.
I was looking at an excer where was an interview
with a critic Omar Khan, and it out that eight
or so musical numbers per movie is pretty standard.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh so this seems under the average, right. I think
there were maybe five in this movie?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Is that right? I lost count after a little while,
just because I'm not used to seeing any in my heart,
but I saw something where he was talking about a
later Ramsey Brothers film where he's like, well, there are
only four musical numbers in this which may seem like
a lot too outsiders, but like really it's like a
half load. But on top of the music, on top
of the horror, which we'll get to, we also have

(08:31):
martial arts action, you got a little dancing. You've got
some comedic segments which we're probably not going to talk
about too much other than to say they are awful.
But all of this comes together into what felt to
me it's kind of like a circus, right. It's like
you go to a circus. They're going to be a

(08:52):
number of acts. You may not be there primarily to
see the clowns. You may be there to see the
trapeze act, but the clowns are going to be there
because somebody came with the expectation of clowns. Within talk
of Bollywood film in particular, i've seen this described as
Massala film. That is a reference to the spice blend.

(09:14):
You know, you're going to the theater to see this show,
and by golly, it needs to deliver a little something
for everyone. A little of this spice, a little of that,
all under the big top of cinema.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Now, if it sounds like that's a lot to fit
into one movie. It is. This is a long movie.
This is definitely the longest movie we've covered on Weird House, right.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, it beats out Blade by twenty minutes, which I
think is it's important to keep that in mind because
it's not absurdly long like they are longer. Plenty of
longer Bollywood films, and there are plenty of longer Western
films as well. Avatar two is longer than Piranha Mander,
so you know, don't necessarily let the length, you know,

(09:55):
keep you away from these films. And there's an intermission too,
so you got that.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Going for Love an intermission.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Now, the disc we watched this on and I'll give
a full mention of that and just a bit here
has an introduction from Indian horror expert Tim Paxton. He
provides the intro and he points out that Parana Mandir
is one of the most important films in Bollywood history
and probably the most important film in the history of

(10:24):
Indian horror cinema specifically. In one of the interesting things
here is produced on a very modest budget, but it
was a colossal hit. I was looking at some of
the numbers and if I was doing my math correctly,
it multiplied its budget in revenue on the scale of
something like Rocky or Blair Witch Project like that level

(10:44):
of success. Just did an amazing business.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Have you read anything from somebody who knows about the
Bollywood market like what audience has responded to so much
about this movie in particular? Like why was it so popular?

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Well, Omar Khan gets into this a little bit on
some of the extras from this Blu ray set, and
a lot of it kind of comes down to luck,
you know, Like the Ramses at this point had been
pumping out horror content since seventy two, I believe, and
none of those films had certainly had anything like this success.
But they were out there. It was on the fringes,

(11:17):
you know, And so I mean, I guess part of
it is like by this point they definitely knew what
they were doing with a number of these elements. They
knew how to put together things, they knew how to
do them a sola film offering, So they did have
a little bit for everybody. And I don't know, it
was just like the right time, Like audience has just
really responded to it. And he described it as being

(11:38):
like a generational date movie. Like if you were going
to cinemas in India during this time period, you saw
this movie and it was also he points out, you know,
probably going to be especially for how mainstream it became.
It was offering things people just hadn't seen before because
Western horror films could only really enter into like the

(12:05):
general zeitgeist there so much because they weren't coming in
on like satellite TV or anything. They were they were
coming in on it. They weren't being shown in the
theater for the most part. They were coming in on
VHS tapes, and those were in rare you know, and
there were those were hard to get. Only certain people
had access to those. And so this is a film
that has some really scary stuff in it, and you

(12:25):
can just imagine how much more scary it is if
you didn't have direct exposure to say The Exorcist or
the first Evil Dead movie or something like that.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
I can also see how it would be such a
great date movie since it has you know, it's like,
it's like scary so the classic cliches. It gets you
hugging clothes because you know, because the sam reas out
here are about to do something evil.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
But it's also got a great love story. Yeah yeah,
you got again. You've got a romance at the heart
of it. You've got family melodrama the heart of it.
You've got the music, You've got the comedy, You've got
the dancing girl. You've got all these things that that
that any given viewer is going to be wanting to
see out of a Bollywood film. But it's also offering
something that is new, and that the newness ends up

(13:09):
being key because this kicks off a horror boom in India.
There the Ramsey Brothers end up coming out a lot
of additional horror films. They have competitors, and also, you know,
other folks just jump in to try and ride that bandwagon,
and it actually they end up writing it out by
something like I want to say ninety two, so the

(13:29):
boom doesn't last too long. But during that time, everybody
gets in there and and some of the films are
supposed to be quite good, but there's a sort of
sameness to everything, and after a while people seen it
and it loses that new edge that this film seemed
to have.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
I think a similar thing happened with some of the
biggest money making horror films in the United States in
the eighties. Also kind of the slasher formula got repeated
and played out to death.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah, or the or later on the speaking of blair Witch,
the found footage formula, because you know, that's a case where,
for the most part, people hadn't really seen a film
like this. It was produced on a very low budget,
made tremendous money, and lots of folks jumped in there
to try and recreate that success, and god goodness, off

(14:14):
the top of my head, i'm not sure anybody really did, so, Yeah,
I think it's a it's a good comparison, though only
in terms of like sort of business and impact, not
so much style.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
I think following the blair Witch model, the Paranormal Activity
franchise did pretty good, Okay, I think, hmmm, I'm trying
to think of another one. I don't know. Yeah, I mean,
the found footage style is obviously very appealing because it's
cheap to make. But when people were trying to just make,
you know, cash in on found footage movies with very

(14:46):
uninspired ideas, I think a lot of them missed out
on how creative the original blair Witch project actually was.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah. Yeah, and I mean that's that's kind of like
written across the horror genre. Wherever you look, right, a
successful horror movie comes out and somebody's gonna think I
can do that. Horror is easy. Horror films can't be
that hard to do, and there is an art to it.
There is a certain amount of style, and then there's
a certain amount of luck to hitting things just right.

(15:15):
And that's what Perana Mandir seems to have done. Let's
see just a couple of other notes. Paxton points out
that this movie, which deals specifically with a resurrected, evil
decapitated wizard, does draw heavily on two prior films, one
American in one Spanish nineteen fifty eight is The Thing
that Couldn't Die that stars Robin Hughes as the Wizard

(15:38):
Gideon Drew, and nineteen seventy two's Horror Rises from the
Tomb starring Paul Nashy as the Wizard Alaak Demarnac. This
is a film, of course, we discussed on Weird House Cinema.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
I did not expect that. Yeah, Paul Nashy plays the Wizard.
He's actually part of like an evil source of or
power couple in Horror Rises from the Tomb, Right he
has like a white for a girlfriend who's also a
powerful wizard.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah. I mean the thing about Paul Nashy films is
Paul Nashy monsters you're supposed to feel some sort of
sympathy for, you know, That's where he's coming from. He's
coming from that love of universal horror and sympathy for
the monster the wizard. In this film, Samri is unlovable.
He is just a complete monster. Every crime that is

(16:26):
committable he has done. We are not meant to have
any sympathy at all for Samri. And ultimately, I have
to say, even though the early stages of the film do,
like the historical opening does kind of mirror the opening
of Horizons from the Tomb, it ultimately goes in its
own direction as opposed to being anything like a clone
of that movie.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, on one hand, yes, I agree, Samri is not
sympathetic at all in terms of the narrative. He doesn't
have like a tragic love story or anything like that.
There's nothing likable about him except just his physical vibe.
Like the presence of the actor who plays Summary in
the opening is so cool.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Oh absolutely, Yeah. The performance here by aj Agarwal is
tremendous and this is a role that launched him as
like a true monster actor for Indian horror cinema.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
We'll have to come back to him.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, we'll come back to him for sure, because he's
at a light. There are long stretches of the film
where he's not there, but when he is there, he's tremendous. Right.
Just a couple other small points before we get to
the trailer. Basically the film is predominantly in Hindi, though
the characters do throw in a little English here and there,
and the action ventures into a rural setting, so you'll

(17:41):
hear some characters speaking another dialect or language. It's referenced
in the Hindi dialogue as well, but I couldn't find
an indicator of which language this is.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
I noticed something interesting in the movie where a couple
of times somebody would say something in Hindi and then
they would say the same thing again in Dash, almost
as if for emphasis. And I don't know if that's
like something specific to Bollywood movies or just a quirk
of this movie in particular, or a convention of of

(18:10):
Hindi language in general. I don't know, but I thought
that was interesting.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, with that, with that specifically and just generally out there,
we'd love to hear from listeners after this episode. If
you have more experience with Bollywood cinema, if you, if
you speak Hindi, if you certainly, if you, if you
have experience with the theater, experience of going to these films,
all of that is on the table because I've heard
it pointed out that it's one thing to watch like

(18:36):
a Bollywood film or Bollywood horror film in your living
room by yourself. But that, of course was not how
they intended a film like this to be viewed. No,
this was to be viewed in the theater.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Can you imagine how much fun it would have been
to see this in a pact theater of like young
people out on date night?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh yeah? And can you imagine how how afraid people were? Again,
if you hadn't seen many horror films and you had
to see Sammar I mean, he's he's terrifying almost all
the time on the screen. He's at least unnerving, if
not just outright terrifying. All right, Well, I mean the
elevator pitch on this one is basically it's the biggest
Bollywood horror film of them all. It's the It's the

(19:16):
granddaddy of Bollywood horror films. It's your basic evil wizard,
multi generational family curse romance film with added music and comedy.
We have a trailer here. I don't think we're going
to play at all, but we'll play at least a
nice sampling of this so you can get sort of
an audio taste of what's ahead.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
May shut out of how many? How about all right?

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well, before we go any further, if you would like
to watch this movie for yourself, if you'd like to
check out here, go and see it and then come
back to the rest of the episode. Well, you don't
have to depend on some sort of weird stream to
view this film, uh, Because there's a wonderful Bollywood Horror
limited edition box set that is out from Mondo Macabre.

(21:01):
And I checked out a couple of discs from this
the disc for this film and then a disc for
another movie that had some extras on it, and we
rented these discs from Atlanta's own videodrome rental store.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
It's a great print, though it does warn you that
there will be some variable quality and different scenes of
the movie due to just like storage issues with the
film over the years, so the restoration is a bit
patchy in places, but for the most part it looks great.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, there's one particular I don't even know what to
call it, but there's some sort of an error in
the final print that we have on the disc here
that has almost kind of a psychedelic quality to it,
and I didn't really I don't think i'd seen it
on a film before, this particular kind of noise. So
it's very watchable. Nothing in this gets in the way
of your enjoyment of the movie. All right, Well, let's

(21:59):
jump into the people involved here. The main ones to
really highlight here are the Ramsey brothers, the directors. It's
impossible to discuss Indian horror cinema without discussing the Ramsey brothers. Again,
they had been doing this since seventy two, and this
is the movie that kicked off an enormous boom in

(22:20):
Indian cinema for horror, and even like contemporary horror movies,
they still have connections to the work of the Ramsey
brothers here. Now, Ramsey Brothers, I think can at times
refer to just different sons and grandsons of f U Ramsey.
But in particular the directors here are Shyam Ramsey and

(22:40):
Tulsi Ramsey. Shyam lived fifty two through twenty nineteen and
Tulsi lived nineteen forty four through twenty eighteen. Other Ramsey
brothers would get in on the directing game at times,
like Kishu and Kieran. But yeah, these are the main
two we're talking about. They're the ones who directed horror
films in the early seventies, with a nineteen seventy two film.

(23:03):
In the title for this one translates to two yards
under the ground, so already like kind of a grim
beginning there. They followed this up with a string of
horror and creature films. There's one from eighty two mat Kasaya.
I'm probably mispronouncing that, but it looks interesting to me
because it has some sort of like big creature water
monster in it. I'm not sure this one is available

(23:26):
widely in the West, but I put it on my
radar because it looks interesting. Neat monster anyway. But anyway,
all of these films that they were putting out, these
were outliers. The horror pictures just weren't viewed as culturally viable.
They weren't seen as potentially anything that would make money
at the box office, so it was more fringe stuff.
And you know a lot of these pictures, particularly Ramsey

(23:48):
productions at the time, they were also pushing boundaries of
what was accepted in Hindi cinema at the time. As again,
as omar Con points out, most Indian film viewers had
little or no exposure to Western horror films and Indian
horror films were barely a thing. In fact, I saw
an interview with aj Aguah, the main monster actor in

(24:10):
this picture, and he said that he didn't know the
difference between horror films and regular films before being cast
by the Ramses. Like that's how little horror was established
in like the general audience's mind. But with this movie,
again it hits it just the right time, takes off.
Nineteen eighty four becomes a huge hit, a generational date movie,

(24:34):
as Con describes, it sets off this massive boom that
doesn't really subside till ninety two. The Ramses continue to
apply their trade, tons of competitors and imitators trying to
get in on the craze as well, until overexposure kicks
in and the Boom ties out. The Ramses followed this
movie up with nineteen eighty five's Telephone nineteen eighty five's

(24:57):
three D Summary, which is obviously the Yeah, the three
D sequel of sorts to this movie. Well, but I
thought the evil wizard was destroyed at the end of
this movie. If an evil wizard makes you enough money,
there's no destroying him. He will come back. There's a
nineteen and I'm not Also, I haven't seen three D Samary.

(25:17):
I assume it's Samri because it's the title is the
name of the character. But you know, sometimes a movie
like this, maybe it's not a direct sequel. Maybe it's
a spiritual sequel. I'm not sure. But there are a
slew of interesting looking features that they came out with
in the wake of Parana Mandhir, including Takhana from eighty six,

(25:38):
Verana from eighty eight, Pirani Haveli from eighty nine, and
nineteen ninety's Bond Darwazo, which is said to be quite
good more of a traditional Dracula style film, and after that,
the well kind of drives up. One of their last
big films, if not their last big film, was a
nineteen ninety four movie titled Mahaka, which a number of

(26:02):
you might be familiar with because it is to be kind,
it is very inspired by Nightmare on Elm Street. It
is at least a strong homage to Nightmare on Elm
Street and features a Freddy Krueger esque character on the cover.
So I think this one has gotten some amount of traction.
If nothing else, you might have seen some clips or
the poster art.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
It does have a guy with knives for fingers.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yes, yeah, yeah. And if you're not sure, like how
to spell that title and you want to look it up,
just do a search for like Bollywood Freddy Krueger and
you will. You'll find it all right. The screenplay on
this one was written by another Ramsey, Kumar Ramsey, who
lived thirty six through twenty twenty one. He was the
screenwriter and a number of their films. This is one
of those situations where you know the brothers and the

(26:48):
family here they'll often draw in some of the same talent,
so this Ramsey also wrote Somari three D in a
movie called Guest House. There are also three other contributors
also credited here, but I couldn't find out much about them.
But there's a story credit, there's a dialogue credit, and
there's an assistant dialogue writer. All right, let's get into

(27:09):
the cast. So we've talked about him already. But aj
Agarwall I believe Aj is short for Annarud. He was
born in nineteen forty nine. As of this recording is
still out there. I think he's retired now, but yes,
he plays our dark wizard of evil who's eventually going
to rise from the tomb and get his head back
and go on a rampage. He only acted in three

(27:33):
Ramsey Brothers films. He played a monster in two of them,
in Barana Mandir of course, in the follow up Samari
three D or three D summary in eighty five. He
also played more of a traditional dracula in that nineteen
ninety film Band Do Waza, and he continued to act
through twenty ten. Is retired now but mostly just almost

(27:54):
exclusively in Hindi films. But he does have a role
in Steven Summer's The Jungle Book from nineteen ninety four.
I included a picture here for you, Joe. As you
can see, he's playing heavy of some sort in this.
He's standing next to the villain holding Lena Hetty by
the arms.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Well, that's also Carrie Elwis. I know all three of
these actors. I don't think I would have recognized a
single one of them in the screenshots.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, yeah, they're very young. I mean, especially Lena. I
wouldn't have recognized her. But anyway, yeah, he's in it.
He's very tall. He was like six four six', five,
so especially among a lot of, actors he's pretty. Towering
andy has just very pronounced. Features i've read this might
have been due to like some sort of underlying medical

(28:41):
condition as well that sort of gave him pronounced facial. Features. Also, yeah,
again very tall and based ON i read an article
about him AND i was looking at an interview conducted with,
him and basically he made two goes at getting into
acting before and after earning a civil engineering certificate or
degree of some, sort but at both times he didn't

(29:03):
have any. Luck until he had some sort of ill
health or injury while working In, muntumbai and he looked
even more haggard. Afterwards i'm not sure if he had
some sort of like facial bruising or whatever the case may,
be but someone came up to him and, said, hey
you look pretty. Tough you should be in. Movies and he's, like,
well that's What i've been trying to, do but nobody

(29:25):
will hire. Me and they, said, say, well you know,
what you need to go talk to The ramsey brothers
because they will give you a. Chance and so he.
Went he talked to The ramsey, brothers and The ramsey
brothers at that point were apparently six months into Shooting Piranha,
mandir but they hadn't done any of the horror sequences.
YET i guess they didn't even have A samari. Castow

(29:47):
and they leaned heavily on masks and makeup in previous,
films but then in walks a man who who doesn't
need as much, makeup you, know and like He's we've
seen this in time and time again in various horror
cinema periods and, settings where somebody comes in and they
just have that unique look where you don't have to

(30:08):
do much to, them you, know just a subtle amount
of makeup and right lighting and the right lighting and
effects and you're already in the horror. Realm and that's
what he offered to them.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Here it's interesting, because as we were saying, earlier this
character is in no way likable or. Sympathetic they just
make him an absolute, demon like pure, evil not like
charismatic or, anything except in the opening sequence before he
gets transformed into a More frankenstein type. Creature the Human
somary evokes strong rock star. Charisma he has kind of

(30:46):
a Shaggy Keith richard's, haircut and the back of his shirt.
Sparkles it's got this Like Sequin wolfman. Motif it looks
kind of like Something David bowie would have. Worn and
he's just like tall and has a kind ofind, of you,
know lead guitarist. POSTURE i don't, know he seems very.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Cool, yeah he's at least a head taller than everybody around.
Him at, times he kind of felt like he had
kind of A Boris karloff kind of of presence to,
him you, know and you, know and also reminds me
of various other you, know actors with unique. Appearances but,
yeah very strong screen presence from this. Guy and and
when he shows back, up he just keeps looking more

(31:27):
and more, monstrous and the, lighting the effects are always
just really on point whenever he's on. Screen so he's very.
Terrifying so That's. Somary that's our. Monster but to have
an effective, monster you have to have a bunch of
mortals that are in peril or cursed by seid. Monster

(31:47):
and so the next major character of note here Is
Suman singh played By Ardi gupta's she's our HEROIN i
guess you. Know she's the born into a long line
along cursed lineage of sings. Here it's a very charismatic.
Performance she's a lot of fun on the. Screen the actor, Here,

(32:10):
gupta would come back for THREE d summary and also
apparently produced a few films much, later including two thousand
And seven's A Mighty heart Starring Angelina.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Jolie, YEAH i Think Artie gupta is. Great she conveys
a lot of, emotion especially in the musical. Numbers THOUGH
i was, wondering do you know if the actors in
this movie sing their own parts in the musical numbers
or are they sort of lip singing along to professional.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Singers it is my, understanding and AGAIN i invite further
education On bollywood by anyone out there, Listening but it's
my understanding that it's almost it's usually not the actor
doing the singing that that's added, Later AND i think
that would make sense given that if you have if

(32:55):
there's no real division between films and, musicals it just
makes sense to do. That and of course this is
not unprecedented In western musicals as. WELL i MEAN i
think Of Oh, Brother We're Art, thou which is a tremendous,
musical But George clooney is not doing his own singing
in that.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Film and it works great in both. CASES i, MEAN i,
know sometimes for some reason people talk disparagingly about lip.
SYNCING i think they talk about it like that when
it's like a band is faking doing a live, performance
just like full on trying to trick people that they're playing.
Live but in a, movie, no there's no problem at.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
ALL i like. It, Yeah AND i imagine there Are
bollywood films where at least some of the actors are
doing their own. SINGING i, mean it makes, sense BUT
i did not get a sense of that from looking
at the credits for this. Movie all, Right so we
Have suman Sing she's our. Heroine her, Father Thakhor singh

(33:48):
is played by Pra Deep, kumar who live nineteen twenty
five through two thousand and. One this Is suman's, father
a loving but overly protective, fare but he's overly protected
for reasons that go beyond the norm and get into
the realm of, supernatural multi generational, curses as we'll. Discuss

(34:09):
But Kumar hero is a Veteran indian actor with credits
going back to the late nineteen. Forties apparently highly, regarded
though largely lacking in like highly successful. Roles he often
acted in period dramas and seems to have just always
boasted a meticulously trimmed. Mustache just a, real, real gorgeous
and stylish mustache on this.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Man and it's a mustache of the thin, style WHICH
i feel like is hard to pull, off but it
looks good on.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Him, yeah kind of like a swashbuckling Old hollywood kind
of a. Mustache. Yeah all, Right so we have the,
daughter we have the, father but now it's time to
talk about the daughter's secret, Boyfriend, sanjay played By Manish,
bell who was born in nineteen sixty. One he plays
a low born, photographer but he's, handsome he's a good.

(34:56):
Lad you, know he's our lover. Boy this was only
his fifth, credit but he went on to act in
more than one hundred.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
PICTURES i think it's interesting that they try to what
seemed to me to like fit in a very standard
forbidden love, dynamic even though it's only like a red.
Herring so, like for the first bit of the, Movie
suman And sanjay understand That suman's father disapproves of their

(35:22):
relationship because she is a rich. Girl she's from a you,
know a high class, family and he's middle. Class he's
not rich like. Them so that seems like a very
standard kind of romance. Obstacle but then there's a twist
which is, like, oh, no actually he's opposed to their
romance because there's a curse on the family and if you,
know she gets, married she may one day have a,

(35:43):
child and that means she will. Die, well actually she
will turn into like a witch and then. Die, yeah
but it seemed interesting that it's almost like they were
trying to fit like a second like short romance movie
into the beginning of this.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Movie, well he lets viewers know where they. Stand it's
kind of Like sons Of, anarchy, right you jump into
Watching sons Of anarchy and it's, like, oh it's Like shakespeare.
Bikers that doesn't really hold on to The shakespeare aspect
of the. Thing for the most, PART i guess it
comes back towards the, end but a little, bit but
it's Still it gives you sort of an initial footing

(36:18):
on which to proceed with the. Picture or in the
case Of sons Of anarchy THE tv, series all, right
we've got the, monster we've got the, father the, daughter
the daughter's. Boyfriend now it's time for the boyfriend's best.
Friend this is the Character anand played By Plunette isar
born nineteen fifty. Nine, yeah he plays a best, friend

(36:39):
martial arts and personal fitness. Enthusiast the actor here outside of,
this is apparently well known In india for his role
in The MAHABARAT tv show that ran eighty eight through nineteen.
Ninety he Played duri, o'hanna eldest of the, caravas one
of the two feuding houses in that. Epic he's also, written,
directed and, produced and is especially known for his negative.

(37:02):
Roles this is a TERMINOLOGY i was not familiar with
UNTIL i started reading about Different bollywood. Actors but, apparently
like when you talk about somebody being like a great
villain or being great at villain, roles you talk about
how they're great at playing negative, roles WHICH i thought
was an interesting turn of phrase.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
There SO i Thought Punita sar was one of the
highlights of the. Film, actually my favorite stuff about this
movie is sort of like the, tall macho guys in.
It SO i like the. VILLAIN i Love anon a Nod,
Is so he's, yeah he's the main dude's best. Friend
but in a, way it's a movie where the side
the so called, sidekick actually does most of the. Heroism

(37:42):
it's Like Big trouble In Little, china and every Time
anon shows up to save the, day it is it's increasingly.
Hilarious there's like an amazing scene Where sanjay is getting
beaten up by twelve guys or you, know they're all
were like these guys in fancy red footman's, uniforms these red,
jackets and they're all ganging up On, sanjay and then

(38:04):
suddenly A noond appears sort of over the top of a.
Mountain he's, like comes up on this ridge overlooking the whole,
scene and he's, like, oh my, friend and then charges
down into the fracas to just slam, me just like
beat beat all these guys, up which he can do
pretty much single. Handedly he is the center of a
number of martial arts scenes THAT i think are actually quite.

(38:27):
Good and there's also a really funny scene where they
have a they're on a road trip and they have a.
Car they have a flat, tire and it's clear that
they staged this just so a. Nod it could be, like,
hey it's no problem that we don't have a, car,
Jack i'll just lift the car while you fix the.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Tire, yeah and he's, yeah he's he's he's basically the
the the action star of the, film While sonjay is
the romantic star of the. Film and Ann, yeah he's
a lot of. Fun these martial arts sequences are. Cool
he's got these really long, legs so he's one of these.
Guys when he's throwing, kicks it's like he manages to

(39:06):
kick around you and then kick you on the other
side of your face kind of a. Thing and he's
also able to somehow pull off the leather vest over
a bare chest. Look he also wears a lot of
FUN t, shirts but sometimes NO t, shirt just the.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Vest in the scene where he intervenes to Save sanjay
and beats all the guys, UP i think he's wearing
a sleeveless polo shirt tucked into.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Jeans somehow he makes it work all. Right, Now, anon
his character has a, wife and the wife Is satna
played by And i'm mostly sure on. This this character
in this actor was not listed in some of the
DATABASES i was looking, at so like not ON. IMDb
i had to go to another. Database But Pretty Sapru

(39:50):
walia born nineteen fifty, SEVEN i believe is the actor
playing his. Wife she wishes he was a little less
into martial arts and personal fitness and more into love,
making which makes for at least one amusing sequence in the.
Film you, know it's a fun. PERFORMANCE i think she
has only a couple of scenes to really shine, in

(40:11):
but she does. Shine oh, yeah she's.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Good it's a real bummer when the Evil wizard throws
her off the top of a.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Building, yeah going, away it's, like you, know she's SHE'S
i guess she was, dimmed you know from the, start like,
this somebody's got to be killed by the. Monster we've
got to, give you, know the certain plot elements have
to be put in.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Place the two main lovers go on a road trip
with their two friends to go stop the Evil. Wizard
what do you think is going to? Happen to the two.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Friends, yeah, now do we have a creepy groundskeeper in the, Film,
yeah we kind of have two of, them because we
also have a, creepy creepy. Woodcutter the creepy Woodcutter i'll
mention really quickly Is sanga played By Satish shah born
nineteen fifty. One, basically he's just a scarred woodcutter who
really would like a bit of that. Treasure but the

(40:57):
main grounds keeper at the haunted mansion where everyone ends
up is this Character durjon played By sadashev A'm rapokur
who lived nineteen fifty through twenty. Fourteen there's something about his.
Performance at FIRST i didn't pick up on, it but you,
know it has kind of like a nice haunted. Vibe

(41:17):
he has kind of haunted eyes and WHEN i looked him,
up apparently he made a name for himself playing villains
or negative ones or negative roles in various. Films in,
FACT i saw a twenty Fourteen Indian express article that
called him Quote bollywood's most memorable. Villain so oh.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Interesting, yeah not a villain in this, though, no just.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
More of he's the, local that, is the haunted local
who knows more about goings on than the main characters
in the.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Film at one, point he quite crucially hides a trident
in a, chandelier AND i did not understand why he did,
that but it comes in.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Later he just knew that it would come in handy.
Later somebody's going to need to drop this chandelier. Sometimes, yeah,
SOMETIMES i guess it's just the film logic of the. Thing,
now there are a lot of other actors in, this
And i'm not going to go through all of them.
HERE i will say that we do have a bandit
character Name MACHAAR i, believe and he is played by

(42:19):
this actor who went by the Moniker Jack. Deep this
is An indian actor and comedian who appeared in more
than four hundred, films INCLUDING i think some Various Ramsey brothers.
Films this is our sort OF i don't, Know Benny
hill esque misogynistic slapstick specialist that is brought in for

(42:39):
at least, two maybe three long segments of the film
that are concerned only with, comedy that do not really
connect much at all with the rest of the film
and are really difficult to.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Watch. AGREED i had read in multiple commentaries that the
comedy segments are by far the low point of the,
film and they are for the most, part extremely, unpleasant
not funny and just like a lot of jokes about sex.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Crimes yeah, yeah so's it goes beyond, like, oh this
is out of keeping with the main vibe of the.
Picture is just like content, wise it's. Gross SO i
would advise if you're just casually watching this, movie you,
know feel free to get up and get a snack
during the comedy. Segments don't necessarily bother reading the subtitles

(43:28):
during these, segments and feel free to skip them all. Right,
finally the music For piranha Mandir Ajit. SINGH i don't
THINK i was able to find any dates for, him
but he worked on Subsequent ramsey pictures as, well Including
takana in eighty, Six Perani haveli in eighty, nine and
a friendly yetty movie that came out in ninety one

(43:50):
that looked pretty interesting as. Well but the music in
this picture IS i guess at times IT'S i loved.
It it's a little, abrasive like at times the synth
come on really, strong BUT i still can't fault it too,
Much like it definitely gets in there and it comes
at you with its.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Clause oh, YEAH i really liked a lot of the.
Music there's one theme that really stuck in my head
that was not especially complex, melodically but it was just
like a real rubbery synth tone as the characters were
like exploring a secret passageway AND i was grooving on
it really.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Hard samri has a pretty strong theme as well THAT
i Think Omar, KHAN i think it Was Omar khan
compared it to the main theme from The Omen not
but it's directly that or reuse of, that but maybe
has hit similar notes of that.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Score all, right so you wanted to talk about the plot, now,
yeah let's do.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
It.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Okay so one thing is we absolutely cannot do the
kind of granular commentary we do with some, movies especially
like seventy minute drive in movie or this episode would
be six hours. Long AND i want to say this
is not only because this is the longest movie we've ever.
Done i'd also, ARGUE i wonder if you'd agree with,
this that it's in the running for the densest movie we've,

(45:13):
done meaning that the amount of plot or stuff happening
per minute of run time is unusually.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
High, Yeah, yeah everybody gets their stuff in on this,
film and again it's it's having to deliver all of
the various. Spices so, yeah there's a there's a lot
that happens in this, movie and to just cover every
bit of it we just wouldn't have time. For and
certainly we're going to skip over stuff like the comedic,
segments which you, know the less said the.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Better, Okay first of, ALL i like a film that
begins by showing you its. Papers the first thing we
see here is a is a scan of the certificate
from The Central board Of Film certification of The indian.
Government seem to recall seeing similar paperwork at the beginning
of Like british movies from the, thirties like those Old
Alfred hitchcock movies that show you the certificate from The

(46:06):
British board Of Film. Censors, YEAH i.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
AGREE i really like this and makes it feel kind
of like more like a cultural, artifact you. Know.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah, Yeah so the narration begins two hundred years. Ago
Bijapor sultanate was ruled By Raja Hariman. Singh in those,
days the fear of ghosts and demons prevailed in the
hearts of. People the most feared demon of all was Called.
Somri and as they mentioned these different, people we see
like painted portraits of. Them samri's portrait has a kind

(46:34):
of purple, glow so he is emitting rays of evil
magic even in painted. Likeness the action begins with a
historical flashback Where Hariman singh is traveling with his Daughter
rupali and his retainers when his chariot breaks. Down, unfortunately
it breaks down in the middle Of somri's, land and

(46:57):
even worse than, that his daughter wanders away while the
carriage is being fixed and fearing for her, life The
rajah sends his men out looking for. Her they, are
of course attacked and picked off by the Evil. Sorcerer
AND i just want to say this. Again one THING
i noticed immediately about the opening segment is the extremely

(47:18):
high energy editing and pacing of each. Shot so the
cuts between shots are, frequent and the action in each
shot develops very, quickly so it's this kind of near
frantic pace for the first couple of. Minutes but it's
not just, fast it's also, loud full of like screaming

(47:39):
and blasts of, music like slamming the audio into the
Red it's just a. Lot.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Yeah, Yeah i've Seen Sam Raimi's Evil dead for maybe
one mentioned as an influence on The Ramsey brothers as
well as the films Of Wes, Craven SO i don't,
know maybe we see a little bit of those influences
in this editing.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Style it's not going to keep up at quite this
pace and level of intensity for the rest of the,
movie but, overall, uh for this, film The Ramsey brothers
do stick to a pretty fast moving and intense editing.
Style it always feels. Energetic things are always happening really.
Quickly there's not a lot of establishing or waiting. Around.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah, yeah and you don't have to wait to see
Samri he's. There he's going to disappear for a while
for reasons that will that makes, Sense but, yeah he's
there from the get, go and you get to you
get a good look at, him and and, boy it's
he's just a great sight to take.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
In AS i said, earlier strong evocations of rock. Stardom
he's like he is singing devil. Music but, Okay samary
is running. Around he kills all Of Harry Mun singh's,
men and then he vamps Through. Polly Harry Mun singh's.
Daughter how are we supposed to understand what happened to?
HER i don't know, Exactly like he leans over her

(48:59):
as if he's biting, her and then there's blood on
her face and her eyes look. Different there's sort of
like her eyes have turned, white as if she's in
a kind of magical.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Trance one THING i loved About somre just throughout the
picture IS i never really know what the rules are with.
Him he's just overpoweringly, evil like he, yeah he can
drink your, blood but it's just he just looks at.
You if you just think about him too, much you
may just lose your. Soul and then in terms of

(49:29):
like what he, is, yeah there's the Basic gahara rises
from the tomb undead sorcerer aspect of the whole. Thing but,
like especially when he starts showing up, LATER i, mean
he already has things at this, point and then later
on in the, movie his body becomes even more monstrous
in ways that don't line up with just pure like
decay and, Resurrection like his body becomes just increasingly like

(49:54):
just materially.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Evil, yeah his later form is Part, frankenstein part decaying,
zombie and part pro.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Wrestler, yeah with like some bigfoot thrown in.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
There yeah, yeah. Yeah, Anyway Harry munsingh comes back with
his full forces and they capture the. Demon they capture,
summary taming him with holy things like there is a
priest chasing him with a, trisula the trident Of, shiva
and there is an altar with a statue Of, shiva et.
Cetera and he's ultimately held in. Chains they stand him

(50:28):
up for a kind of trial while the accusations against
him are read before the. Crowd, basically he did everything.
Bad he did, murder, rape, cannibalism all of, it all
in service of his, evil demonic.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
MASTERS i liked how the priest is reading these charges
out and finally stumbles a, bit reading the charge of
digging up graves and eating.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Corpses that doesn't seem like the worst of, them.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
No but at that point he's this is too. Far
we're not used to this. One we don't even have
this one on the. Books i'm not sure this is technically.
Illegal it's just bad. Manners.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Now there was a cultural and language question here that interested.
Me in The english subtitles of this, scene it says
That samri is accused of using His satanic powers to
create terror among the. People it says that he slaked
His satanic thirst by drinking the blood of, children and
it says he is so vile that Even satan would shun.

(51:24):
Him so given The hindu context, here and it seems
very much in A hindu, context like there are other
scenes where you, know there are, temples the temples Of,
shiva people offering prayers To shiva in order to help.
THEM i kind of wonder whether they actually Said satanic
And satan in these. SCENES i guess they could, have

(51:45):
BECAUSE i kept hearing a word in the audio that
sounded like. Shatan SO i was just, curious what's going on,
Here like what is the most direct translation of what they're. Saying,
because of, course in the context of like A christian
culture horror, movie it's very, normal like the evil sorcerer
is understood to get his powers From satan or some

(52:08):
kind of demonic. Force in The hindu, context where does
the evil sorcerer's, power where's it understood to come?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
From, YEAH i had the same thought. HERE i, thought,
well maybe they're just referring to mentions Of satan And western,
films which would have obviously been an influence, here and
THEN i was, thinking, well maybe it's there's An arabic
loanword at play. HERE i looked up to some basic
stuff in. Translation, AGAIN i do not know What i'm
doing with The hindi language at, all but it does

(52:38):
seem like we do have this term, chatan which means, devil, satan, freaks,
beasts or. Demons SO i guess that's what we're talking about. Here.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Interesting, okay, again The hindi speaking listeners please write in
let us know.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
At any, rate he's done all the bad things and
something's got to be done about.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
It, Right So Harryman sing's advisors all they argue about
the best way to punish this evil. Sorcerer the priest,
says you, know why don't we burn him to, ashes
that'll purify him with. Flame Harryman singh, Says, No i've
got a better. Idea we're gonna cut his head off
and keep it in a different building than his, body
and that way we'll know that his head and body

(53:20):
can never possibly be. Reunited there you.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Go sounds like a winning.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Plan and then the holy man suggests using the trident
the trisula to guard his. HEAD i think they're gonna
like lay it over the top of the. Box okay,
again sounds sounds. Good that's a good way to secure.
It then the prologue. Ends suddenly lightning strikes and there
are more. Credits after these, credits we get the story picks,

(53:46):
up but it's still in the historical, prologue and we
see them Leading samri off to his, fate and then
they're sort of leading him in procession and, chains and
then he stops to rage at everyone like he rages
At Harryman, singh and he issues a curse upon his,
household which is he says that all of his female
heirs will die in childbirth Until samri's head and body

(54:10):
are joined. Again note that in the scene they haven't
been separated. Yet, also he, says on the day that
his head and body are joined, again that will be
the end Of Hariman singh's. DYNASTY i guess meeting he
will destroy them. All then they do. It they cut
his head off and they bury the body in the
ruins of a. Temple they say It's Shunkar's polygot, temple

(54:32):
and they take his head to throw it in a
trunk wrapped with. Chains and then they hide that in
the dungeon of The raja's, palace and then they of
course put The trishula as she was wholly, trident on
top of the trunk and they wall it up Like.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Fortunado all in, all a pretty great historical prologue that
then leads us into modern Day aka in an early Eighties.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Bombay, Right so we meet our modern day. Characters there
Is Takur ranbier. Sing he is the descendant of The
raja from the, prologue so the curse has passed down
through his. Family he's a rich. Man he loves his,
family but he is preoccupied with fears about the ancestral.
Curse there Is ranbier's, Daughter, suman who is a college.

(55:18):
Student she's got a kind of sunny, disposition and her
father laments her growing up because that means that she
may marry and try to have children and then the
curse Of samri will kill. Her then there Is suman's Boyfriend. Sanjay,
again he is not, rich but he is handsome and,
brave loyal and. Scrappy and then there Is sanjay's Friend

(55:40):
anand who this is a buff guy who cuts the
sleeves off of all of his, shirts not all of.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Them he's got some. Sleeves some slaves are, kept but
most of them they just get in the.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Way so we See suman And sanjay being in. Love
they go out on dates they, like go to a pool,
party they go out to a night club where there's
a dancer dres And, Gold and here we get our
first musical.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Number, yeah this is kind of a cabaret. Number the
dancer Is Lena das and it's a pretty Fun indian
disco type musical. PERFORMANCE i GUESS i really enjoyed. IT
i turned the volume up a little bit on this.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
ONE i was thinking though about this night club. Here
it's a strange mix of inside it seems cool but also.
CLAUSTROPHOBIC i think maybe the claustrophobic aspect comes from like
the solid black walls and what felt like a sort
of low. Ceiling but it's got these cool like red
bench seats and then posters on the wall for movies and,

(56:37):
stuff like there's a poster For superman up on the.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Walls yeah, Yeah and we also we get a little
bit Of sonjay is looking at the dancer maybe a
little bit too, much And suman is so it was
a little bit. Jealous this is a recurring. Motif, yes
whole songs will be sung about this later.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
On So suman And sonjay are in, love But suman
has to lie to her father about where she's going
when she heads out on dates with. Him, however her
father finds out Ron beer is not, pleased and he
forbids her to See sanjay. Again but of course she's in.
Love there's no stopping, her so she's not going to
just leave her boyfriend. Hanging and so this is an

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ongoing conflict at the beginning of the. Movie and, again
AS i mentioned, earlier there's a misunderstanding about the reason
her father forbids the. Romance she and like the young
people think it is a class, thing that she's rich
and he's. Not actually it's a demonic curse, thing but
they don't know that.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Yet, yeah he won't tell her about, that he's keeping that. Secret,
instead he just says things, like, hey our family name
is not so deluded that our blood can just flow
directly into the gutter and things like, that and of
course that just pushes her further. Away he won't tell
her the real demonic curse rationale that is behind his.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Fear but then we get like a love song on
a beach or it's on rocks near the, shore Where
sanjay is singing about his love For. Suman, yeah and it's,
nice you, Know it's like just a nice music video.
Break somewhere in here we get the first martial arts,
scene and this is with Uh. Okay so the basic
situation is Ron bier. Again he Forbids sanjay And suman to,

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date but then he catches them. Together so he sends his,
men who are all dressed up in these cool red,
jackets to beat Up sanjay and then on on to
like comes over the mountain. Top it comes over like
a ridge looking down on them and runs into the.
Rescue and then together they beat up all of the
all of the bad. GUYS i guess they're not bad.
GUYS i don't. Know the guy's working for her.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Dad they're Just dad's goon squad that's to beat Up.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
Sanjay but we see a lot of signs Of Ron beer's,
worries like he has a freak out dream sequence with
a giant beast sammary. Head and this is where we
start getting signs of What samri will look. Like his
in his sort of undead, form which is again less
rock star and more kind OF i don't, yeah like,
bigfoot pro wrestler.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Zombie, yeah just seething in, darkness just these great, eyes
just in this pronounced. Brow it's just a tremendous. Look
AND i can just imagine moviegoers screaming when they see
this on the.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Screen but eventually the curse is revealed To suman And,
sanjay and they have a bunch more you, know back
and forth about how Ron beard disapproves of, them but,
eventually like there's one scene where he's repeatedly getting a
gun off the, wall but eventually he breaks down and
confesses to them what's really going. On he explains the,
curse and there are, exchanges like one that was funny

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was he's, like you, know it's a, secret and they
say what's the secret and he, says it's ONE i can't,
reveal and they're, like but you must reveal. It but
then when he, does it's. Horrifying there's a horrifying flashback
to When ronbier reveals that After suman was, born her
mother was transformed into some kind of devil creature with

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these long. Fingernails these claws and like barnicle on her
face and then she.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Died, yeah there's. Nothing it turns out there's nothing ambiguous about.
IT i thought they were more setting up a situation
where it's, like, oh you're you know you're your mom
died in childbirth and there is this ancient curse. Thing
SO i put one and two. Together, no, no, no she
like straight up practically explodes in some sort of like just,
awful you, know cursed flesh type of. Death and it's

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it's it's a lot to, Watch.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Like all the doctors and nurses run out of the.
Room there's no.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
End it's they're, like it's out of our. Hands this
is straight up wizardry going on in.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Here so Ron bier explains To, sanjay you, know if
you really Love, suman you will leave her, alone, Right
and So sanjay does because he really does love. Her
but then very next scene it cuts straight To anon
is lounging on a bed or. Something he's wearing a
sweatshirt and he, says so you left, her you lose.
Her what'll she think of? You? Now should we do

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a sidebar On anon's? Shirts he wears a lot of interesting,
shirts some of them Have english riding on them and
interesting logos and pictures and. Stuff he wears one shirt
that just says, styles and he wears another shirt that
Says Golden. Rule he who has the gold makes the.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
RULES hm very cool and it's.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Weird Because anon in many ways does have a heart of,
gold as we will. See but also he IS i don't,
know he is. Indifferent scenes shown to be vain and
highly covetous of, money even doing very shady criminal things
to get.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Money, yeah though those occur either within or within close
proximity to the comedic, segments And i'm never sure how
much of THAT i should actually pay attention, To like
does that? Count is that real a noon or is,
that like some a different version of a non just
for the comedic segments of the. MOVIE i don't.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Know well, Anyway suman shows up and she's got a
better idea Than sanjay just leaving. Her she Convinces sanjay
that they should break the. Curse, hey great. Idea so
it's now a road trip To, bijapur driving down the
highway in a red. Convertible the road trip buddies are
the four of, Them, Suman, Sanjay annan and his Wife.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Sapna so at this point it's kind of A Scooby
doo road trip kind.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Of a, movie which, is, yeah and all you know
on the, trip we See anon is such a good.
Friend sanjay is, like why would you risk your life
to help? Us And, ANON i, think threatens to beat
him up for saying. This he's, Like, hey what are friends.
FOR a friend has to help you break the curse
on your, family even if that means laying down his own. Life, Yeah,
meanwhile this is. Funny sapna is happy to come along

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because she is confident that the curse is Just suman's
father having a. Delusion SO i guess it's just a
regular road trip.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
For, Her, yeah just to get out of. Town this married.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Couple they have extremely different ideas of the stakes of
this this road. Trip.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Yeah he's, LIKE i am ready to die and she's,
LIKE i am ready to see the. Countryside.

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
Yeah, Meanwhile ron be are back at. Home he has
visions of Samary as in his kind of altered beast
form and has a heart. Attack he, survives but the
doctors say he must, rest AND i think they use

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this to explain why he doesn't chase after the youths
to stop them on their. Quest, yeah but then we
go into a part of the movie where basically the
four friends are investigating the different. Settings so they go
to an old. Temple they noticed that the statue in the,
temple WHICH i believe is Of shiva or maybe Of

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shivshankar maybe they say, later is missing its. Trident and
then you, know so they look around, there they have
some visions of scary. Things they drive around and just
have encounters with scary, people like they meet a woodcutter
who just freaks them out by smiling at them and
holding an. Axe and then finally they reach the palace

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and they explore that and Meet dirjan the, watchman who
shows them around and tells them sort of family, history
and they start having repeated freaky reactions to portraits OR
i guess mainly it's Just suman that. Does like she
sees a portrait of her ancestor and it zooms in
on her eyes and it's knowing whoa, whoa whoa.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Whoah is this the scene where the eyes follow? Her
and they do it by having clearly two separate, paintings
one with eyes looking straight ahead and one with eyes
looking off to the.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Side, YEAH i loved. IT i really like these scenes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Because we know the viewer knows that behind that, painting
behind the bricked up wall is going to be the
head Of, samary sealed up in a box With trishula
leaned against it to keep it from coming out and wreaking.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Havoc the next, day there's a funny scene Where sopna
is annoyed Because anon won't stop doing workouts and martial,
Arts like she's doing one handed push ups and practicing martial,
arts and she's just, Like, wow really really great romantic
vacation you took me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
On, yeah this is a fun sequence, though because then
she kind of has this where she fantasizes about him
being more into romance and less into personal, fitness which
WHICH i thought was pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
Fun then oh, my here things start taking a left. Turn, well,
first a bunch of guys from the forest Attacks sopna
from out of, nowhere and Then anon gets to come
to the rescue and beat them all. Up and then
we go and meet this bandit commander WHO'S i think
giving the guys in the forest. Orders it starts with
a lot of over the top slapstick comedy and then

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descends into this rivalry between the bandit and a local
official in the. Village this is the barely related comedic
side plot that we were discussing, earlier and to be,
frank as many reviewers have, MENTIONED i found it extremely.
Unpleasant i'm not going to make much effort to recount.
It but it's a lot of jokes about like a
guy not having arms and another guy who does sex.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Crimes, yeah that's basically. It and they just keep driving
home these plot points and and it's it's very. SKIPPABLE
i highly recommend you skip it if you watch this.
Movie but but it. Is it really throws you off
when you first hit it because when the bandit's men show,
up they have like like dime Store halloween mask on

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the back of their, head and you're just, like, what
what what is? Happening DID i switch channels? Somehow this
is an error on the. Disk, no you've just you've
just descended into the comedic. Subplot but don't. Worry you
will eventually rise out of. It but then you're gonna
fall into it at least one more, time and then
you'll fall out of it again without anything in the
comedic plot ever really impacting THE a plot or getting.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Resolved, YEAH i mean there's a little bit of, interaction
like it does develop to where the bandit and A
noon have a have a twoco and blondie plot From The,
good The, bad and The, ugly where LIKE A noon
repeatedly turns the bandit in for a bounty and then
freeze him before, execution and then does it again to
keep collecting.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Money, yeah and then the whole time you're just like
a non stay out of this. Subplot you don't need
to be, here just stay In PLOT a with the
rest of.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
Us so in this middle, section we get some some
delivery of lore from The Watchman dirgent at the. Palace
he tells some backstory about the connection between the palace
and the. Temple. Uh there are also sections here where
it seems like maybe the heroes kind of lose track
of what the road trip was, For like instead of
furiously hunting down the body of the Evil, sorcerer Like

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sanjay is fishing for food And suman is doing like
a couple's photoshoot Of anan And.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Sopna mm. Hmm, yeah it's like there's a. Curse there's
a deadline, here. Guys we gotta stay on.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
This. Oh but in this, scene it starts with a
thing where there's a woman in the, water and at
FIRST i, thought, oh is she a? Mermaid but she's
like biting fish with her teeth and then trying to
give them To sanjay uh AND i And suman gets
jealous of this woman because she clearly is Into sanjay
and she's like a beautiful local.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
WOMAN i, guess, yeah beautiful local woman that MAYBE i
think maybe we're supposed to assume that she's kind of
a bad, girl definitely a threat to their, romance but
ultimately we're gonna find out she has a heart of,
gold even if she's kind of like doomed to. Die
like like like other characters in the, film.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
General spooky dou ins are. Afoot There's suman has more
freak outs when looking at the. Portraits and then there
is the blood shower.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
Scene, YES i love this because first of, all it's
the middle of the night time to take a, shower
But suman also is gonna take that shower in a,
swimsuit and you just know the way that the camera's
zooming in on the shower. Head i'm like that that
water's turned into. Blood there's no way that water's not
turned into, blood and of course the water turns to.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
BLOOD i knew exactly what was, coming but it's it's
a pretty fun scene. Nonetheless so, yeah she's like then
in the, tub, screaming covered in blood in the, swimsuit
and Then annan And sanjay run into the rescue and
they like lift her out of the blood tub by
her arms and legs and then put her directly on the.
Bed AND i was, thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Oh, no you're getting blood all over the. Blanket that's
a white, blanket. Y'all come.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
On but Then dirgen comes in to explain that the
blood tub incident proves the curse is. Real you, know
you've got to take it seriously, now AND i think he,
says you've got to talk to the locals to find
out more about the. Curse and then.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Intermission, yeah so setting up, basically like if the story
game Of Arkham harr or, something the research portion of
the adventure where you just got to go around talking
to people and find out how the ancient evil.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Works so that comes into play right after the, intermission
but it leads to a lover's quarrel Between suman And.
Sanjay Because sanjay goes to talk to one of the
local villagers and who does he pick to talk, To,
well it just happens to be what's her Name, beaeshley
the beautiful woman who was bathing in the river, earlier
and she's bathing in the river, again and he's, like,
HEY i need, to you, know talk to you about a.

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Curse and she's, Like, SANJAY i love, you marry.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Me he dead knows no his way. Around you're supposed
to go talk to the haunted drunk, guy old drunk
guy in The he's the one who has the secret
knowledge to. Share but now he goes to the attractive
lady from the water that is also offering him.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
Drinks, yeah so she takes him back to her, house
gives him some kind of alcoholic, beverage and then he
watches her dance in front of a. Fire he's clearly
being romantically. Tempted suman is jealous and, heartbroken and she
sings there's another musical. Number she sings a forlorn. SONG
i was, wondering did you detect this? Song maybe cutting
off before the song was finished OR i don't. Know

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it seemed like something was. Missing it ended rather.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
ABRUPTLY i didn't notice That i'd have to go back
in the.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Look Maybe i'm, Wrong but, anyway After sanjay finds out
some more lore from the, villagers he returns To suman
and they.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Reconcile their love is tested but remains. Strong.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
Yes, now later that, Night suman is sleeping and then
there's a cat, scare like literally somebody throws a cat at,
her just jumps on her, bed and she like screams
and wakes, up and she's in a kind of, oh
kind of a, day is wandering around and then she
ends up stabbing the portrait Of Hariman singh that's on the.
Wall and after, This anon realizes he looks up at

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the wall and realizes she stabbed through the wall behind
the portrait as. Well and Then anon And sanjay bust
down the. Wall they investigate the secret passageway. Within this
is the scene WHERE i mentioned there's some really cool
kind of rubbery synth. Music there's some cool bits Like
anon gets a snake attack to the. NECK a snake
wraps itself around his neck and they have to fight it.

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Off but then they find the. Trishula they find the
trident Of shiva on top of the trunk wrapped in.
Chains they bust it. Open inside they find the severed,
head And sanjay concludes that it must be the head
of some brave soldier and it must be there out of.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Respect, Oh sanjay couldn't be more.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Wrong bad. Decision, yeah but then there's, like so the
woodcutter from earlier is looking on and he decides he
sees the box and he thinks it's full of treasure
and he wants, treasure so he comes back in the
middle of the night to get, treasure and instead the
head hypnotizes him and turns his eyes into ping pong
balls and makes him attack.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
People the ping pong pong eyes were pretty, hilarious AND
i don't think they were meant to be. Hilarious but
they're also out of keeping with what they did with
other people's possessed, Eyes like they did some sort of
like contact, EFFECT i guess with everyone, else but this
guy got ping pong. Eyes, yeah and it's a questionable.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
Choice Like rupauli's eyes were creepy, looking they like they turned,
white but they were you, know, yeah so those were.
Different he just has like they're like bulging and they
look like.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
Plastic, yeah they're, like we couldn't get a hold of
our contact guy for. Today what else we? Got what's
the backup? Effect it's ping pong.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Balls this leads to a great chase scene THAT i.
Loved so it's The it's like a horse drawn carriage
with driven by the woodcutter carrying the wizard head in
the carr, bridge riding through the forest at, night and
Then sanjay in an ond in a red convertible chasing after.
It so it's machine versus.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Horse it's. Great but then they are also supernatural environmental
effects that come into play as.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Well that's all, Right so like The sorcerer's HEAD i
think causes a tree to fall down and block their
path as they pursue the, head so they can't keep
up with. It, meanwhile something happens in here Where dershan
hangs the trisula up on the. Chandelier, yeah unsure.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
Why he's kind of, LIKE i got to hide this
away for later so that it can play a dynamic
role in the showdown or. Something, yeah so the only
logic that makes.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
Sense so the hypnotized woodcutter like digs Up samri's. BODY
i guess he knows where it is because the head
has hypnotized. Him then he grabs the, head he puts
the head on the. Body he pokes himself with a
dagger and bleeds on the neck, stump and this kind
of glues the head back on and Then samar wakes
up and now it's it's clober and.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
Time that's, right it is. On body and head are
back together. Again his. Body at this, point LIKE i
alluded to, earlier it's the evil is just completely. Manifest
it's it's now this hairy demonic Sasquatch frankenstein creature that
that ultimately really. Works like if the Way i'm describing

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it makes it sound like it's kind of patchwork and
and maybe you, know can't decide what it wants to,
be but, no whatever it is it, is it totally
succeeds as being. That it's just. This this is evil.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
Incarnate samri is wickedness and Malevol i'd say he's. Bad, hey,
everybody we just had to take a quick, break but
we we're back. Now so if we sound, different that's.
Why but we're finishing the. Episode so uh, yeah the
plot is kind of in monster mode right. Now this
is when The frankenstein starts shambling, around, grunting looming and killing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
People, Yeah samri has, returned has full body, again has
great lights and effects And scynth backing him. Up so
it's just terrifying anytime he's on the. Screen he's not
interested in reasoning with anybody or. Negotiating he is here
to in. Dynasties he doesn't care what has happened in
the world over the past few. Centuries he has a

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pretty straightforward. Agenda, OH i didn't even think about.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
That, like he hasn't been, around so he doesn't know
about the moon landing or. Anything, okay so, yeah he's killing. People,
unfortunately he Makes sopna jump off the roof of the
palace to her. Death. BUMMER i Like. Sopna and Then
anon is obviously very upset about, this so he like
runs up to the roof of the palace to fight,

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him But samri is. Gone and from here there is
a blood sacrifice. Subplot the villagers decide they want to
do a human sacrifice Of sanjay And suman in order
to appease the monster and save, themselves and here we
get a human sacrifice musical, number WHICH i liked quite a.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Lot, yeah this one is. GOOD i believe they're looking
to sacrifice To klie and it looks it looks like
our heroes might be might be doomed once. More but
someone comes to save him right in the naked, time.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
Right so they're like tied up awaiting, death and you,
know the drums kick, in and then suddenly here's this
lady from. Earlier the one is her Name, BEACHLEY i
think the one who was in love With, sanjay like
he went to her house, earlier and she's dancing around
singing this very, jolly upbeat song about how the man
she loved is unfortunately going to have his blood spilled

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and she doesn't want. That and then there's a string of.
Reversals so first of, all she comes to save the
day because she Cuts sonjay free and says she loves
him and tries to let him, free but then he
gets caught by the. Mob but then her, brother who
is sort of the guy leading the, mob says that
he will still Kill suman Unless sanjay beats him in

(01:16:58):
a sword. Fight and then they get out. There they're
fencing swords and they fence for a. Bit the sword
fight is, okay it's not really on the level Of
an's martial arts. Scenes and then at the end of
the sword, Fight sanjay sort of, wins but the brother
tries to throw a dagger At sanjay's back to kill,
him but yet, again the sister who Loves sanjay. Intervenes

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she steps in front of the dagger and takes it
for him and.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Dies oh, no, yeah bad girl with a good. Heart
redeems herself through. DEATH i also like that the sword,
fight like you, say is very different from anything we've
seen in the film up to that, point and it feels,
like once, again this is the little something for everybody
going on where it's like we need to have a
traditional swashbuckling act in the picture and this is the
place to situate. It, yeah it makes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
Sense so, Anyway sanjay And suman run, away the mob
searches after. Them you, know there's kind of a lot
of running around and hiding and chasing in the, woods
and then here comes another a noon. Fight he is
a nod is captured by the leader of the mob
and then there's some fighting and on lets out some

(01:18:08):
really weird martial arts moves in this, Fight like there's
one WHERE i think he steps on a guy's. Head
it's kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Gross, well he's just completely powered up with vengeance at this,
point like he's more lethal than.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
Ever, right and so he's, yeah he's angered by the
death of his. Wife he is motivated by defending his,
friends so he's fighting super hard and there's a really
awesome moment where the leader of the mob tries to
stab him with a, dagger But anon grabs the dagger
by the blade and disarms. Him.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
Excellent he just cannot be stopped at this.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Point but, unfortunately even Though anon prevails in this, fight
there is immediately more. Peril So sanjay And suman are
chased in the Dark bysomri the, demon And anon comes
to rescue. Them he ends up giving his life so
that they can, escape just like he said he would.
Earlier so a true friend to the. End samary kind

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of strangles, HIM i, think and then his eyes turn.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
White so now it's just our two lovers pursued by
the Demon.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Somri but an earlier character, returns So suman's dad is
back on the scene and he shows. Up he's like
a better from my heart. Attack now there is only
one person who can Beat. Samri and that Is Lord.
Shiva so cut to another musical. Number Now Ron deier
is singing to an altar Of shiva OR i think

(01:19:30):
they were also calling this God Shiv, shankar Which i'm not,
sure but maybe like a manifestation Of, shiva maybe Like
shiva the destroyer of. Evil, Perhaps i'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:19:40):
Sure at any, rate this seems like the bright call
Get shiva and on this that then we're dealing with
a pretty, powerful supernatural evil force. Here we're going to
need just a little.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Bit of, help, right praying for The god's, help and
we get cutaways to the surviving, characters but then also
cutaways to like a bloody sheet which is presumably covering
up the dead body of An. Ond.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Yeah, Yeah AND i have to, say on paper or
just us describing, this you might question whether it makes
sense to throw in a religious musical number this late
in the, film building up to the final showdown with the.
Monster BUT i thought it it would. WORK i thought
it really worked because the musical number itself has this
way of kind of revving up and has this kind
of rhythmic quality to it kind of works the people

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in the scene into a, frenzy you, know to unleash
our would be monster, slayers and you feel a little pumped.
Up you're, like let's do, this let's finish this, Up
let's let's Get.

Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
Somri, ABSOLUTELY i mean AS i said, AGAIN i mean this.
UNIRONICALLY i fully encourage more filmmakers to make horror movies
that are seriously scary but also have musical. NUMBERS i
think that's a great.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
Idea, also it's probably a good way to overpower some
of our Traditional western movie villains Like Jason. Vorhees how's
he going to react to full blown musical. Numbers he's
not gonna know it's. Him this is better than like psychic.
POWERS i would love.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
That, yeah fully like a religion musical number before somebody
goes up Against, jason where they're they're like invoking the
power Of.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Christ you. Know we had something kind of similar without
the music In The Devil rides Out. Right they basically
have A sunday school lesson before the big, confrontation just
to set everything.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
Right we should mention by the way that the lyrics
of the song point out the like remind the audience
that the statue Of shiva is missing its. Trident. Uh
and this Gives sanjay the idea that the way to
destroy the monster is to use the, trisula which is
which again was. Hidden it was in the hidden passage
behind the painting on top of the trunk that had

(01:21:41):
the head in. It and So sanjay And suman go
looking for the. Trident so there's a bunch of more.
Scares they're like looking around in the palace and they
are screamed at by taxidermied, animals and samm. Reappears he
chases them. Around he is about to in the in
the very last, moment hipn ties and Vamp. Souman but

(01:22:02):
Then sanjay sees that the trishula is hidden in the
chandelier and he wields. It he Drives samri into his
coffin and they trap him inside with the power of the.
Trident and then the villagers come collect the, coffin take
it to the village. Square then they Tie samary to
the steak and burn him huge burning fire and the
demon is.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Vanquished, yeah they just they burn him, up And dad's
there pumping his fist in the. Air the monster. Burns.

Speaker 3 (01:22:29):
Yeah in the, End ronvier Accepts sanjay because now the
threat to his daughter's life has has. Passed so he,
Says i'm proud of, you, son you destroyed the curse
that haunted my family for two hundred. Years and then
this is one of those cases where he says something
that he just said again but In, english so he
says In, English i'm really proud of, you my.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Son it's such a it's not such a sweet, ending you. Know,
granted a lot of people died to get us, here
but it's getting back into like just the straight thing
family melodrama aspect of. It it's a nice place to end.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Things, yeah So sonjay And, suman we see them, married
and then it ends very. ABRUPTLY i was kind of
thinking there would be an ending music, number you, know
but there was, not or AM i remembering?

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
Right was?

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
THERE i don't think there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
WAS i don't think there was a full on musical
number to end it. Out it was just kind of
like we end on more of a traditional note where
good is victorious and they kind of get a nice
snapshot of everyone together and then we close it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
Out so all in, ALL i greatly Enjoyed Piranhamunder. AGAIN
a great love, story great evil, wizard good family melodrama and.
Stuff love the musical, numbers comedy segments, awful martial arts.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
Awesome, yeah and then of course the monster is. Amazing
so all in, ALL i feel like this was a
pretty solid entry Into bollywood. Horror so who. Knows you
have to do some more. Research maybe at some point
in the future we'll come back and do Another Ramsey brothers.
Film there's also From blinking on his name at the,
moment but there was another like top tier competitor to

(01:24:08):
them that put out a number of movies as, well
and some of those looked, Interesting so who. Knows it's either.
Way i'm glad we got to dive in to the
cinema Of india here On Weird House. Cinema and once,
again if you want to get into into some of,
THIS i have to point out there's An instagram account
For bollywood crypt and that was one of the first
PLACES i started looking. AROUND i found that, account AND

(01:24:30):
i was seeing what this account was sharing related To
bollywood horror and kind of getting a taste for what
seemed to be. Important and then from THERE i found
out about this awesome blu ray set that's out From Mondo.
MACABRO i recommend checking that. Out and if you're In,
atlanta LIKE i, said you can go To Video drom
and rent some of these bad. Boys they just got

(01:24:51):
them on the. Shelf all, Right we're going to close
the book, here but we'd love to hear from you
out there. Again if you have experience With bollywood cinema in,
General bollywood horror, specifically or you know particular memories or
things to share About Piranha, mandir let us know we
would love to hear from. You in the, meantime we'll

(01:25:12):
also remind you That stuff To Blow Your mind is
primarily a science podcast with core episodes On tuesdays And.
Thursdays On mondays we do listener. Mail On wednesdays we
do short form artifactor or monster fact, episode and On
fridays we set aside most serious concerns to just talk
about a weird film On Weird House. Cinema you can
look us up on letterbox BEST L E T T
E r boxd dot. Com we have an account there

(01:25:33):
called Weird, house and we have a nice list of
all the movies we've covered over the. Years you can
pull them up and you can also organize them. Anyway
this is HOW i was able to really quickly see,
like what is the longest film we've ever covered and
what is the? Shortest without a, Doubt Piranha mandir is the,
longest but only beats Out blade by twenty.

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