Veerana is a 1988 Indian horror film about a beautiful young woman, unfortunately possessed from her childhood by a vengeful spirit, who wanders around seducing and killing people, gradually becoming lost into a dark world of revenge and lust. The title translates as “Desolate Forest”. Also known as Vengeance of the Vampire
The movie was produced and directed by Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay.
Plot:
Thakur Mahender Pratap Singh (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) finds out that a witch is creating havoc in an adjoining forest. His younger brother Sameer Pratap (Vijayendra Ghatge) decides to go on a witch hunt. While driving his car through the middle of the lonely forest, 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 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 Mahender Pratap Singh hang her. A tantric 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 with a new body…
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