Veerana

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with a young boy tied up inside a cage in a large cave. Some priests and goons are surrounding him. He pleads with them to leave him and asks what they want from him. The priest says that his blood and flesh will give life to Nakita. Just then the witch comes as a lovely young woman and enters the cage. She removes the bat locket from her neck and transforms into a ferocious form, kills the guy. Thakur Mahender Pratap Singh (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) finds out that a witch Nakita (Kamal Roy) is creating havoc in an adjoining forest. One night, his little daughter comes to him and says that villagers have got a dead body outside. He goes and sees the body of an unknown guy, the villagers are surrounding him. When asked they say that a woman roaming in the lonely lanes of the forest has done this. They call her a witch. Sameer Thakur says that witches and devils are just superstitions. But one man says that some years ago when he came to the village from a nearby city, he lost his way and wandered off into the jungle where he saw a young girl. She later turned into a bat and attacked him on the face.
Mahendra Pratap decides to investigate for himself. His younger brother Sameer Pratap (Vijayendra Ghatge) decides to go on a witch hunt. His wife Preeti denies by saying that he should think of his daughter and niece. Just then they go downstairs and Mahendra Pratap says that he trusts his brother and their ancestors have always helped needy people to get justice. He gifts an "OM" to his brother and wishes him good luck while giving his blessings. As Sameer is passing through the forest, while driving his car he meets a beautiful young woman, just as one villager had described. The woman gets a lift in Sameer's car. They arrive at the old mansion which is located behind the lake in the forest. Sameer uses his clever seductive tactics and gets the lady to bathe with him in the bathtub. Then diverting her attention by pretending to be physically intimate with her he snatches the bat locket from her neck. The lady transforms into the hideous witch Nakita that she really is. Sameer renders her weak and helpless by holding a holy Om in front of her. The witch is taken to the outskirts of the village and the locals along with orders of the Thakur hang her to death. A tantric, Baba, manages to steal back her body along with all his followers in the dead of the night, and takes it to the shrine, where he keeps it in a sarcophagus and promises to provide her a new body. The body would be of Thakur Mahendra Pratap's daughter.
Some days pass off happily and peacefully, with the brothers sharing merry hours together and both the children Jasmin and Sahila being lovingly nurtured by Preeti, who is the mother of Sahila and wife of Sameer and loves the brother-in-law's daughter equally. Then, one fine day during the wee morning hours, Chotte Thakur Sahaab is being shown going to Mussoorie to drop his niece, Jasmin, at her boarding school. When they're crossing the lonely stretch of the forest (Veerana), the car overheats and stops. The uncle asks his little girl to wait in the car for him and leaves to fetch some water for the radiator. However, Baba suddenly creeps out from behind a bush, hypnotises the girl, and by cutting a piece of her frock and few strands of her hair makes a doll from it. He then places the glass bottle holding this doll in the witch's sarcophagus. Jasmin gets out of the car in the hypnotised state of mind and walks over to the shrine. Meanwhile, the uncle comes back with the water tin and is shocked not to find the child in the car. He follows her trail and is astonished to find himself going off deep inside the forbidden bush path. On the other side, the girl walks inside the devil's lair and comes to a standstill in front of the witch's tomb. In a shocking moment, the witch reaches out and pulls the kid over inside with her. The uncle tries to save his child but is late in opening the sarcophagus. By that time, the witch's evil spirit already manages to enter the girl's body. Thus, the uncle is rendered helpless as being badly outnumbered by Baba's men and is unable to save his little niece. He is shown to be captured and killed.
Baba then brings Jasmin back to her dad Thakur's mansion. The tantric informs Mahendra's family about the death of his brother due to a violent storm in the forest and informs that Sameer's dead body drifted away in the river and could not be recovered. After taking the child back to her room and putting her to sleep, Bade Thakur Saab leaves 2–3 servants in charge of the child and goes downstairs to meet the Baba. Baba asks for the Thakur's permission to leave but Thakur requests that he stay back as the caretaker of his daughter, since he has saved his child's life. However, the Chotte Thakur's wife, (Rama Vij), gradually notices something different in Jasmin's behaviour. The changed behaviour of the child entices the aunt to talk to her brother-in-law regarding the weird changes in their girl and tries to convince him to get some witch-doctor to treat Jasmin. However, the witch, who's possessed the child, overhears this and kills her aunt Preeti by hanging her in Jasmin's bedroom by the ceiling fan that very night. Thakur, horrified by this incident, then decides to send his little niece Sahila, the newly orphaned child, to Mumbai to stay with her grandmother so that she can be safe and stay protected from the ominous situations.
After 12 years, the Thakur receives a letter from his niece Sahila. He's very happy on the fact that she ranked first in her inter-mediate examinations. During the time that has passed, Jasmine grows up into a stunningly beautiful young girl who spends most of her time alone locked away inside her bedroom or occasionally wandering into wilderness. She tends to be moody and lost in her own world, making her father worry all the time. Thakur saab informs Baba that his niece has topped her exams and he's planning to call her to Chandan Nagar to spend her summer vacation at the haveli. Baba directs one of his faithful servants Zimbaru who is as huge as a giant to kidnap the niece, Sahila so that she would not reach her ancestral home. On the other side, a man attacks Sahila's car and chases after her. Her second cousin Satish, (Satish Shah) shouts for help. Here the hero marks his entry and Hemant, played by (Hemant Birje), turns up to rescue the damsel in distress. He manages to send the monster packing and saves Sahila. Back at the village, Jasmin meets a new young man, role played by Vijay Arora, at the city petrol station who is a mechanics professional and repairs her car faults expertly. She is impressed by him and asks him to come over at the old mansion located behind the bank of the lake that night for a picnic. When the man reaches over there, she welcomes him and they both drink and dine together. Due to over-intoxication, this man forces himself on Jasmin and they both have a hasty one-night stand.Jasmin was shoot nude from behind exposing her buttocks and later film was awarded A Certificate.After some time around midnight, the man gains consciousness and wakes up. He is scared to see Jasmin's eyes all grey and the girl not moving her eyelids at all. He tries to run away but again falls on the bed. Then the girl wakes up, the witch taking control of her, takes a silver dagger and stabs the man to death. Then Jasmin hastily returns home in the darkness. His body is found by the police next morning but as no one recognises him, the investigations stop over there. Hemant and Sahila get close to each other during the journey and they both reach the Haveli together. Thakur Saab is very happy to see Sahila and when he hears the story of how she was helped out of the tight spot by Hemant, gets impressed by the handsome and burly young boy and readily gives him a big job in the timber factory. He also accepts Hemant as his son and family member.
However, murders continue. One evening, Jasmin takes a lift in a drunk man's car and then, after crossing some distance, the witch's spirit kills the man by tearing through his neck. One night, Sahila decides to sleep with Jasmin in their old bedroom and she suddenly notices something very strange and frightening in her elder sister and informs her uncle and Hemant. Thakur decides to send his daughter Jasmin, for a psychiatric evaluation to his old friend who is a noted psychiatrist. Under hypnosis, Jasmin recounts the incident in her past and she transforms into a completely different person. Her voice changes and she threateningly vows to kill everybody from Thakur's family. Thakur firstly refuses to believe the doctor, but when he hears the recording recorded by the doctor, he believes him when he informs about his daughter being possessed. However, due to their old family relation and bosom friendship, the doctor promises to stay and treat the young girl. The doctor also asks Sahila's friend Hemant to pretend to be close to Jasmin so that the truth comes to light but they both fail in their attempts. However, one night, on seeing weird shadows and smoke coming out of Jasmin's bedroom, the doctor walks inside and sees the witch's grossly frightening face. He tries to warn the Thakur but he refuses to believe the him. The doctor runs away from the house to save his life but is mocked at by the servant man, Raghu while departing from the mansion. In a huff, the doctor shuns Raghu and leaves from the Haveli as Jasmin looks at him with a strange victorious smile on her face standing in the balcony.
While the doctor is driving his car at a breakneck speed through the old village lanes, he takes a wrong turn in confusion, bangs on a tree and stops right in middle of the lonely forest. The witch, who is lying in wait for him, suddenly comes out from the dark shadows and while the doctor is barely conscious to look at her with wide shocked eyes, pierces his body and brutally kills him.
The servant Raghu (Gulshan Grover), is the next to die. He is killed when out of the witch's fear he decides to sleep in the factory at night instead of going to the haveli. Then Hemant and Sahila while discussing the killings with Satish, take out the topic of Baba. Hemant decides to follow the Baba along with Sahila on a hunch. They both chase him to the Veerana. But they get captured and Sahila discovers that her father Sameer Pratap is alive. Satish Shah, in a twist of events, reaches the Veerana and rescues all of them. Now, Sameer goes straight home to his brother with the children. Thakur Saab is thrilled to see his dear brother hale and hearty. Then Sahila and Hemant relate the story of Baba's plots and Sameer informs his brother of the plan that helped the Baba make the witch's evil spirit possess Jasmin and turn her into a living nightmare.
In the meantime, Baba plans to kill Jasmin on amavasya so that the witch can be reborn and attain immortality. He takes her from the haveli to the devil's lair and prepares her for the sacrificial ritual. But the family manages to reach the scene. Jasmin is saved by making the witch leave her body by destroying the bottle containing her voodoo doll. But, by sheer ill luck, Bade Thakur Saab loses his life to grant his daughter happiness and a long survival. The family briefly grieves and somehow, as now the witch has got her spirit back in her own foul body, succeeds in locking the witch inside sarcophagus with the help of the holy Om.
Then the Thakur family and all the villagers take the sarcophagus to the temple of Lord Shiva. The sarcophagus is carried inside the temple and Chhote Thakur unlocks it with Hemant's help. Both daughters are sent out of the temple. The witch comes out of the sarcophagus and to her horror finds herself in front of the holy Lord. She writhes in pain, tries to run away, but loses all her power and falls to the ground. Within some moments, she burns away and gets destroyed by the pure impulse of the Almighty forever. Then the surviving Thakurs and Hemant begin their life anew and live happily ever after.

Tags: revenge

Review:
Bava-flavored, Hammeresque fun.
"VEERANA" is one of the best of the Indian horror films I've managed to find, to date.
Like the other Ramsay Brothers productions I've watched, this one has the same Bava-like use of colored gels mixed with atmospheric sets.
There's an over-the-top evil Tantric Priest who might have stepped directly out of an Indian horror comic-book, a wonderful Femme Fatale monster who preys upon the predictable weaknesses of men, plenty of fight scenes--of varying qualities, and some genuine demon-possession/monster chills.
The song and dance numbers are relatively easy to take, compared to other films in the genre.
Overall, this has been my favorite film to show to friends as an introduction to the Indian horror genre since I bought it..
Bollywood does not make a lot of great Horror films.
In the 70s there was one Hit Jaani Dushman.
If you see it now you'll see how outrageous it is.
In the 80s there were the Ramsay Family, who have produced a few Horror films.
Some include Purani mandir, Thakana and Dak Bangla.
Veerana is no doubt their best work.
After 90s there have been a few more Hit Horror Movies like Bhoot, Raaz, Raat, Vastu Shastra and Darna Mana Hai. In my opinion Veerana is better out of them all.
Many people say Raaz was Great, but it was copy of Hollywood Movie what lies beneith.
Veerana has its own storyline added with Indian culture.
Black Magic and Witches.
The witch in this movie looks a bit like a Vampire.
For a 80s Bollywood film, this has some great Art added in.
The way the monster is picturised is Impressive.
The acting by all the Stars in this movie are Novice.
The Key Girl in this movie named Jasmine who plays the daughter of the Thakur, is very Sexy and seducing.
I would love to get naughty with her and who knows what happened to her after this film.
It is very difficult to find this movie.
I managed to Tape it when it came on Zee a decade ago.
If you want to see a entertaining Horror Movie, this is the one..
depends.
Honestly, I still think this movie has good horror potential you know why?
Because of its low a$$ budget!!!
High budget horror movies are not as scary.
There's something about low budget horror movies (Halloween part one) that just dominates all other high budget horror movies.
I'm the kind of individual that can fall asleep in a haunted house after having just watched exorcist but I still think I can analyze horror movies since I watched them ever since I was a child..
Copy of 'The Mausoleum' but good Bollywood Horror Film of it's time..
This is one of the best Bollywood 80's horror film.
This is one of the best Bollywood 80's horror film.
Charming actress Jasmin plays the lead role as possessed girl and she does very well.
The film is copy of Hollywood 1983 film 'The Mausoleum' if anyone seen this film will know that besides the story how exactly some of the scenes were copied from 'The Mausoleum' in Veerana.
Even the though it was a copy of Hollywood film the Director still manages to make this film a fun ride & entertaining film.
Worth a watch!.
Hokey Hindi horror..
Hindi horror Veerana opens with the hanging of an evil witch, Nakita (Roy Kamal), executed by Noble Thakur Mahendra Pratap (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) for feeding on the blood of locals.
Soon after, Nakita's body is taken by her loyal followers, led by evil magician Baba (Rajesh Vivek), who performs a ritual that allows the witch's spirit to possess the body of Jasmine (Baby Swati), Thakur's ten year old daughter.Years later, Jasmine (now played by the comely Jasmin) is still controlled by Nakita, and proceeds to exact her revenge on her unsuspecting father, and his family and friends, including his pretty niece Sahila (Sahila Chaddha), her hunky new pal Hemant (Hemant Birje), wannabe horror film director Hitcock (comedy relief Satish Shah), and servant Raghu (Gulshan Grover).Clocking in at 135 minutes, I reckon that Veerana could have done with being at least 40 minutes shorter (although a running time of over two hours seems to be standard for this type of film); however, I still have no hesitation in recommending it to fans of the weird and wacky, the film delivering a huge helping of bonkers Bollywood excess, with, of course, a few song and dance routines along the way.In addition to its genuinely unsettling witch, who boasts bulging red eyes and an evil grimace, Veerana delivers a little titillation (both Jasmin and Sahila showing as much skin as is permitted in such films), some really cheesy fight action, lots of hokey sets filled with tacky dime store Halloween props, strange rock-headed beings (whose stony noggins explode in the finale), impalement by golden 'Om' symbol, and a couple of truly inexplicable 'WTF?' moments (including a child playing a middle-aged man smoking a pipe, and a dead cat pulling Hitcock into the ground).
Special effects are generally cheap and unconvincing, with the two best shots lifted from a couple of Western horror movies (the dog with a human head from the 1978 version of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, and the erupting eyeballs from David Cronenberg's Scanners), but the lack of technical prowess only adds to the fun..
Medusa,Ate,Litai or Jasmin you pick.
After watching this movie you will confess jasmin is indeed superior than those Greek mythological bunch of evil goddesses,Am i the only one who says this movie is better than mahal?Then yes youheard it,This is far better and one of the best movies of Ramsaybrothers,Kudos..It has sex,gore,romance and don't forget action as well as comedy,A complete masala with a twist of classic Italian pace type movie.
When jasmin is near by,you won't leave your seat until whom she targets with her absolute disgusting cruel intentions,There is no boredom in this movie and everything just looks perfect,I don't know why Filmfare didn't award them.So guys,Please check out this movie or buy it online,Warning do not watch it alone at night or else Jasmin is gonna get you.This movie will haunt you like never before certainly not the type of vikram bhatt or ektha kapoor kind of super natural movies,We are in business and Jasmin means business..
nothing new.
i've seen this movie and it is taking the indian line of being a long movie ( more than 2 hours) nothing new in it and it can be classified as very light horror suitable for children because no animation or masks or even screenplay that can attract your attention to finish that movie..
Truly an antique from Ramsays House of Horrors!.
'Veerana' aka 'Wilderness' as the name suggests is a phenomenal horror film.
This sensational flick was released in 1988 and soon received a strong positive verdict from the viewers.
The story itself is very impressive and builds tension from beginning till end.
I rented this movie long back and remembered it for superb performances and vengeful Nikita.Thakur Mahendra Pratap (Kulbhusan Kharbanda) is the landlord of Chandan Nagar and lives happily with his daughter Jasmin (Baby Swati), younger brother Sameer (Vijayendra Ghatge), Sameer's wife Preeti (Rama Vij) and their daughter Sahila.
Mahendra Pratap is a very rich man and owns a big saw mill.
It so happens that the Thakurs hear a story of a local witch who wanders in the wilderness and kills people.
So Sameer heads to the wilderness to find her.
Unfortunately he stumbles upon seductive Nikita (the witch itself), who invites him to her palatial mansion.
Sameer discovers that Nikita is a witch and forces her to take her true non-human form.
Nikita is captured and is lynched by the mob.
Moments later some 666 cult members take the corpse to a safe place.Few days later Sameer is driving his niece Jasmin to her hostel when their car zonks out in the wilderness as the engine goes hot.
Sameer leaves Jasmin there and goes to find water.
During this time an evil cult leader Baba (Rajesh Vivek) comes to Jasmin, hypnotizes her and cuts some of her hairs and a piece of cloth from her frock, wraps them around a voodoo doll and goes away.
After few minutes we see Jasmin following the Baba.
Sameer returns but Jasmin is nowhere to be found.
Discovering some trails Sameer comes to an old building where he finds Jasmin lying with Nikita's corpse.
Baba's henchmen subdue Sameer and it appears that they kill him.Baba takes Jasmin to her house and wins Mahendra Pratap's trust.
He tells that he could only save this little girl while the man who was with her (Sameer) died in a terrible storm.
Mahendra Pratap requests Baba to live with them and look after Jasmin.
Soon Jasmin's aunt Preeti witnesses Jasmin's vengeful intentions.
In an iconic scene Preeti is killed by evil Jasmin.
Mahendra Pratap doesn't want Sahila to live along with them and sends her to her maternal grandmother.Years pass by and now Jasmin (Jasmin) is grown up.
She spends most of her time in her room, doesn't behave normally and often strolls in the wilderness.
Mahendra Pratap tries hard to make her understand that she is a normal girl and should behave like others but everything goes in vain.
Sahila (Sahila Chaddha) is also grown up and is planning to return to Chandan Nagar.
She writes a letter regarding this to her uncle Mahendra Pratap.
Baba comes to know of Sahila's arrival and sends a gigantic man Zimbaru (Gorilla) to kill her on the way.
However, she is saved by Hemant (Hemant Birje) and Hemant takes her safely to Chandan Nagar.Sahila comes to know that Jasmin is not a normal girl as she behaves like someone who is possessed.
Now the death count around the village is shooting up.
Jasmin lures the young men to the palatial mansion (that once belonged to Nikita) and kills them after making love.
Mahendra Pratap asks Jasmin about this but she responds in a voice that's not hers but Nikita's.
Mahendra Pratap takes the help of a Psychiatrist (Narendra Nath), who also witnesses Jasmin's transformation to a witch with unkempt hairs, long fangs, burnt face and over-the-top evil eyes.
The doctor also gets killed in one such encounter.
Soon Jasmin kills the housekeeper Raghu (Gulshan Grover) by slicing him open with an industrial wood saw at the saw mill.After hard trials Hemant and Sahila are able to find out the reason behind Jasmin's erratic and vehement behavior.
The question is will they succeed?
The movie is not just a tale of horror, but has several spicy moments that one would surely expect from a Bollywood horror movie.
The budget is out of question as most of the Ramsay movies hail from low budget but do a decent business.
I think this is the last best Bollywood horror movie of the last century.
Ramsays' efforts is well visible because most of the foreboding moments are fairly spooky.
Satish Shah has tortured the viewers to his best and so has Rajindernath.
The good thing is that Rajindernath doesn't have much time to irritate the viewers.It's a must buy movie.
I consider it a video nasty and also an ideal midnight movie.
Best Horror Film Created by the Ramsay's.
Shyam Ramsay and his family are the masters of Indian horror flicks.
There movies have a variety of horror types, from witches to vampires to ghost horror types.
There movies are usually superb and thrilling except a few like Purana Mandir which was crap.
There movies do have violence but never use violence as a horror tool like most crappy English horror flicks like Amusment.
Coming to this movie, it is very well directed and the horror is timed very well.
The actors are very good except Hemant Birje, he overacts regularly.
Jasmin was the best, her horror look was a million times better than any horror looks in other horror movies.
Heck, it even beat Revathi in Raat which was also damn scary.
The rest were also good, no one did bad or mediocre.
There were some disturbing scenes(gory or violent scenes) but the movie is still U.
The editing and final touches were well made but the climax could have been better.
But, this is not much of a big affection for the movie.
This movie is the best work of Shyam Ramsay with no doubts.
It beats violent horror flicks like Friday the 13th, Elm Street.
Overall, another great classic horror flick from the late 80's.