The Old Temple (1984)

Director
Shyam Ramsay; Tulsi Ramsay

Main cast
Mohnish Behl; Puneet Issar; Sadashiv Amrapurkar; Aarti Gupta

Genres
Horror, Foreign

Description
Suman lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her widower dad, Thakur Ranvir Singh, and an unmarried aunt, Damyanti, in a palatial house in Bombay. They are direct descendants of Raja Hariman Singh of Bijapur. When Ranvir finds out that Suman is in love with a middle-classed male, Sanjay, he expresses displeasure and forbids her to ever see him again. When she persists, he tells her that there is a curse on the entire family - a curse that was inflicted 200 years ago by a blood-thirsty, flesh-eating demon named Samri.


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