Purana Mandir (1984)

Movie Overview

Title	Purana Mandir
Release Date	1984
Runtime	2h 24m
Language	Hindi
Genre	Horror, Romance, Drama

Movie Cast

Actor \| Actress	Character
Mohnish Bahl	Sanjay
Aarti Gupta	Suman Singh
Pradeep Kumar	Thakur Ranvir Singh
Puneet Issar	Anand
Sadashiv Amrapurkar	Durjan
Anirudh Agarwal	Samri
Sadhana Khote	Sadhna Khote
Trilok Kapoor	Raja Harimaan Singh
Satish Shah	Sanga (the woodcutter)
Jagdeep	Machhar Singh (Dacoit)
Rajendra Nath	Thakur Murdaar Singh aka Thakur
Lalita Pawar	Basanti
Ashalata Wabgaonkar	Suman's maternal aunt
Dheeraj Kumar	Raka

Storyline

After a rich young girl learns about a demon and it's terrible curse brought by her family for generations, she decides to go to her paternal village with her lover, and his friend, to find out the truth.

Movie Summary

Scene	Timestamp	Details
The Ritual	00:02	Priests prepare a ritual in a cave, offering a young boy to Nakita. A woman enters, transforms into the witch Nakita, and kills the boy.
Thakur’s Discovery	00:10	Thakur Mahendra Pratap Singh discovers the boy’s corpse and vows to stop the witch terrorizing the forest.
The Witch Hunt	00:18	Sameer Pratap, armed with a sacred “OM” amulet, sets out to hunt Nakita.
The Encounter	00:28	Sameer meets a mysterious woman who seduces him, but she turns into Nakita. Using the OM, Sameer weakens her, and villagers kill the witch. Baba secretly steals her body.
Possession of Jasmin	00:40	Baba possesses Sameer’s niece Jasmin with Nakita’s spirit and kills Sameer.
12 Years Later	01:05	Sahila visits during her vacation and is saved from Baba’s attempt to harm her by Hemant, who later joins Thakur’s family.
The Witch Returns	01:20	Possessed Jasmin seduces and kills men, spreading terror in the mansion.
The Doctor’s Death	01:35	A psychiatrist tries to help Jasmin but is killed by Nakita.
The Revelation	01:50	Hemant and Sahila uncover Baba’s schemes and discover Sameer alive at Veerana.
The Final Battle	02:05	The family interrupts Baba’s ritual. Sameer destroys the cursed bottle, freeing Jasmin but sacrificing himself.
The End of the Witch	02:15	The witch is trapped in a sarcophagus and destroyed by divine fire. The surviving family begins life anew.

Two centuries ago, Raja Harimaan Singh’s daughter is captured by the evil Samri, who is eventually decapitated and cursed the royal lineage. The curse promises death to every woman at childbirth until Samri is restored.

In the present day, Suman, descendant of the royal family, falls in love with Sanjay. Unaware of the ancient curse, they face the wrath of Thakur Ranvir Singh and the resurrected Samri after his head is reunited with his body by a mesmerized treasure hunter.

Samri begins a murderous rampage targeting the descendants of Raja Harimaan Singh. Amidst chaos and deaths, Sanjay and Suman discover the power of a sacred trishul and confront Samri in a final battle. Using the trishul, they trap and burn Samri, ending the curse and uniting as a married couple.