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Veerana is an Indian horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 produced by the Ramsay Brothers
Ramsay Brothers
Ramsay Brothers are fame of Bollywood and son of F.U. Ramsay .they are producers, directors and editors for many famous Hindi horror movies such as Veerana, Purana Mandir and Bandh Darwaza, and the TV series "Zee Horror Show" They are a team of five brothers:*#Kumar Ramsay,*#Keshu Ramsay,*#Tulsi...

 in 1988. It is known for its Bava-like use of colored gels mixed with atmospheric sets.

The film had music composed by Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri or Alokesh Lahiri , born 27 November 1952, is a music director in the Hindi film industry. He pioneered the use of disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s with films like Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal and Sharaabi among others.-Early...

 and songs sung by Suman Kalyanpur, Munna Aziz and Sharon Prabhakar.

Cast

  • Hemant Birje
    Hemant Birje
    Hemant Birje is a Bollywood film actor. In 1985, he debuted as Tarzan in Babbar Subhash' s Adventures of Tarzan, also starring Kimi Katkar. He has had mixed success in later films. He was a regular actor in Mithun Chakraborty films. In 2005, Birje appeared in Garv: Pride and Honour, starring...

     as Hemant
  • Jasmin (Indian actress)
    Jasmin (Indian actress)
    Jasmin is Indian actress known for her role in Veerana .-Filmography:-External links:**...

     as Jasmin M. Pratap
  • Sahila Chadha
    Sahila Chadha
    Sahila Chadha is a former Miss India and actress.Sahila began her Bollywood career as the female Tarzan in the jungle flick Sheela .She played the lead in Ramsay Horror slashers like Veerana and Sau Saal Baad opposite Hemant Birje....

     as Sahila S. Pratap (as Sahila Chadha)
  • Kulbhushan Kharbanda
    Kulbhushan Kharbanda
    Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known as character Shakaal in Shaan inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies...

     as Thakur Mahendra Pratap
  • Satish Shah
    Satish Shah
    Satish Ravilal Shah is a Hindi and Marathi film and television actor best known for his comedy films. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the ever popular 80's sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi directed by Kundan Shah and Manjul Sinha. He is famous for playing the role of Municipal Commissioner...

    as Hitchcock
  • Vijayendra Ghatge
    Vijayendra Ghatge
    Vijayendra Ghatge is an actor from Indian TV and movie industry. He has acted in Buniyaad among other serials and several of movies such as Prem Rog and Devdas. He is descendant of Holkars family,the ex-royal family of Indore thru his mother Sita Raje Ghatge. He is the father of Chak De India...

     as Sameer Pratap (as Vijendra)
  • Gulshan Grover
    Gulshan Grover
    Gulshan Grover is an Indian actor, who has acted in over 400 films through a career spanning over 30 years.Gulshan Grover is one of the first Indian actors to have made a successful transition from Bollywood into Hollywood and international Cinema....

     as Raghu
  • Rama Vij
    Rama Vij
    Rama Vij is an Indian film actress who works in Hindi and Punjabi movies and TV serials. She is also an excellent driver and participates in Car Rallies.-Career:...

     as Preeti S. Pratap
  • Rajesh Vivek
    Rajesh Vivek
    Rajesh Vivek is a Marathi Actor who is best known to Hindi movie audiences for his role of the astrologer Guran in Lagaan or as the Postman/Postmaster in Swades. He made his mark as a villain in the beginning with films like Veerana and Tridev, often playing roles of henchman- but later on he...

     as Baba
  • Leela Mishra as Mahendra's mom

Crew

  • Director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

      -- Shyam Ramsay
    Shyam Ramsay
    Shyam Ramsay is a Bollywood film director. He was one of the five Ramsay Brothers who were active in Indian cinema throughout 70s and 80s. Shyam Ramsay was considered the main artist and head of this group. They produced a number of horror movies such as Darwaza, Purana Mandir and Veerana...

    , Tulsi Ramsay
  • Producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

      -- Kanta Ramsey
  • Presenter
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

     -- F. U. Ramsay
  • Music Director
    Music director
    A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...

     -- Bappi Lahiri
    Bappi Lahiri
    Bappi Lahiri or Alokesh Lahiri , born 27 November 1952, is a music director in the Hindi film industry. He pioneered the use of disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s with films like Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal and Sharaabi among others.-Early...

    , Anil Arun
  • Lyrics
    Lyrics
    Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

     -- Anjaan Indeevar
  • Dialogue
    Dialogue
    Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people....

      -- Omar Khayyam
  • Art Director
    Art director
    The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....

      -- T. K. Desai
  • Costume designer
    Costume Designer
    A costume designer or costume mistress/master is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. He or she is considered an important part of the "production team", working alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers as well as the sound designer. The...

      -- Madanlal ,Mani Rabadi
  • Audiography
    Audiography
    Audiography in the context of filmmaking is a term commonly used in India to mean the audio engineering performed by the sound department of a film or TV production; this includes sound recording, editing, mixing and sound design but excludes musical composition, songwriting and choreography.An...

      -- Kuldeep Sood ,Mehboob
  • Choreographer  -- Kiran Kumar ,
  • Action Director= --Gulab Rao
  • Advertising
    Advertising
    Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...

      --Prabhakar
  • Playback Singer
    Playback singer
    A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...

      -- Munna,Suman Kalyanpur
  • Associate Director - - Arjun Ramsay
  • Assistant Cinematographer -- Hemant Sharma
  • Assistant Director
    Assistant director
    The role of an Assistant director include tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of health and safety of the crew...

      --Deepak Ramsay Deepak Sasane
  • Hairdresser
    Hairdresser
    Hairdresser is a term referring to anyone whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques...

      --S hila Kapoor
  • Legal Advisor  -- Sunil Rohra
  • Make Up  -- Sayed Ahmed
  • Production Assistant
    Production assistant
    A production assistant, also known as a PA, is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person responsible for various aspects of a production...

      - - Joginder Pratap Shinde

Plot

Thakur Mahender Pratap Singh (played by Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known as character Shakaal in Shaan inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies...

) finds out that a witch has been creating havoc in an adjoining forest. His younger brother is played by Vijayendra Ghatge
Vijayendra Ghatge
Vijayendra Ghatge is an actor from Indian TV and movie industry. He has acted in Buniyaad among other serials and several of movies such as Prem Rog and Devdas. He is descendant of Holkars family,the ex-royal family of Indore thru his mother Sita Raje Ghatge. He is the father of Chak De India...

, who decides to go in pursuit of the witch and to see for himself if this indeed is true or is it a myth.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 Vijayendra's car. Then, after half an hour or so, they arrive at the old mansion which is located behind the lake in the forest. The man uses his clever seductive tactics and gets the lady to bathe with him in her bathtub. Then diverting her attention by pretending to be physically intimate with her he suddenly without warning snatches the bat locket from her neck. The lady is shocked and while shouting out in distress, at once transforms into the hideous witch that she really is. Vijayendra renders her weak and helpless by holding an holy "OM" in front of her. Then all the villagers arrive at the purani haveli and the witch is taken to the outskirts of the village and the locals along with orders from the bade thakur kill her by hanging her. A black magic
Black magic
Black magic is the type of magic that draws on assumed malevolent powers or is used with the intention to kill, steal, injure, cause misfortune or destruction, or for personal gain without regard to harmful consequences. As a term, "black magic" is normally used by those that do not approve of its...

ian manages to steal back her body along with all his followers in the dead of the night,and takes it to the new shrine, where he keeps it in a sarcophagus and promises to provide her a new body.

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 Vijayendra 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, to 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, the tantrik (black magician)suddenly creeps out from behind a bush, hypnotizes 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 hypnotized 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 the tantrik's men and is unable to save his little niece.

The tantrik then brings the daughter back to her dad Thakur Mahender Pratap's mansion in the dead of the night. Both the father and aunt open the door together. The elder thakur is confused while the aunt is shocked to find her child in such a pitiable condition. Then on being asked, the tantrik informs both of them about the unfortunate demise of the chhote thakur due to a violent storm in the forest. The aunt is pissed off to hear this and breaks down while the brother-in-law condoles and tries to pacify her. After taking the child back to her room and putting her to sleep, bade thakur saab leaves 2-3 servants in charge of the kid and goes downstairs to meet the baba. Baba asks for the thakur's permission to leave but the thakur requests the tantric to stay back as the caretaker of his daughter, since he has saved his kid's life. However, the chotte thakur's wife, Rama Vij, gradually notices something different in Jasmin's behaviour. 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. The thakur horrified by this incident, then decides to send his niece little 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. He's very happy on the fact that she has come first in her inter-mediate examinations and informs the tantric that he's planning to call her to spend her summer vacation at the haveli. The tantric directs one of his faithful servants to kidnap the niece, Sahila. In the village, jasmin meets a new young man at the city petrol station and invites him at the old lake in the night for a picnic. When the man reaches over there, she welcomes him and they both drink and dine together. Due to being over-intoxicated, this man forces himself on jasmin and they both have a hasty one-night stand. After some time, 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. On the other side,a man attacks Sahila's car and chases after her. Her second cousin satish, [Satish Shah] shouts for help. Here a 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. 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 too.


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. The 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 the thakur Mahendra Pratap's family. The thakur refuses to believe the doctor when he informs him 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 thakur refuses to believe the doctor. 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, played by Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover is an Indian actor, who has acted in over 400 films through a career spanning over 30 years.Gulshan Grover is one of the first Indian actors to have made a successful transition from Bollywood into Hollywood and international Cinema....

, 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 servant (tantric) along with sahila on a hunch. They both chase him to the Veerana. But they get captured and Sahila discovers that her father is alive. Satish Shah, in a twist of events, reaches the Veerana and rescues all of them. Now, sameer thakur 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 Vijayendra 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, the tantric 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 saheb 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 for ever. Then the surviving thakurs and hemant begin their life anew and live happily ever after.
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