Purana Mandir

Purana Mandir
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
  • J. K. Ahuja (story)
  • Kumar Ramsay (screenplay)
Produced byKanta Ramsay
Starring
Music byAjit Singh (soundtrack)
Production
company
Ramsay Films
Release date
  • 19 October 1984 (1984-10-19)[1]
Running time
138 minutes
LanguageHindi
Budget₹2.5 lakh[2]
Box office₹2.5 crore[2]

Purana Mandir (transl. The Old Temple)[3] is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language horror film directed by the Ramsay brothers and produced by Kanta Ramsay.[2] The soundtrack was composed by Ajit Singh.[4][5][6]

Typical of Ramsay's other works, the film chronicles the story of a demonic magician Samri who after a violent standoff, curses a king that every female member of the latter's family would die at childbirth.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Purana Mandir Cast & Crew". Bollywood Hungama. 19 October 1984. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference DNA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Nair, Kartik (10 January 2020). "Ghosts of Horrors Past". India Today. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  4. ^ Biswas, Sulagana (1 November 2019). "'Purana Mandir': The dark side". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  5. ^ "10 Bollywood horror films to give you the chills". gulfnews.com. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  6. ^ Dasgupta, Shamya (10 May 2017). Don't Disturb the Dead: The Story of the Ramsay Brothers. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-93-5264-431-5. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  7. ^ Gopal, Sangita (26 January 2012). Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema. University of Chicago Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-0-226-30427-4. Retrieved 6 September 2020.