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Because his father has left everything to his brother, black magician
Durjan will stop at nothing to avenge himself, and he even goes so far as
to kill his brother and kidnap his brother's daughters Arti and Sapna to
sacrifice them to his demon god. But his brother's friend Mansingh manages
to attack the sacrificial site before the sacrifice is made, free the
girls and wall Durjan in in the cellar of his friend's house with his own
demon god. However, one of the girls runs away to never be seen again. 20
years later: Mansingh dies, but on his death-bed he tells his friend's
daughter Arti (Arti Gupta) to look for her sister Sapna (Sheetal), but the
only way to identify her is a locket she wears around her neck that
together with Arti's locket will form a map leading to their family
fortune - which incidently is situated somewhere in the dungeon where
Durjan and his demon god are kept, and as fate has it, right these days
Durjan kills himself to revive his demon god ... Shakaal (Imtiaz Khan),
a family friend of Mansingh and his son Vijay (Puneet Issar), crosses
paths with Sapna, tries to rape her, and when she resists, he kills her.
Only when he sees her locket does he figure out her identity. Shakaal
manufactures a fake locket, gives it to Arti and Vijay and claims he has
seen Sapna, but she sold him the locked and left again. Instead of looking
for Sapna some more though, Arti and Vijay decide to return to her
father's mansion to look for the family treasure, soon helped by a local
couple, Heera (Hemant Birje) and Panna. Shakaal also wants to try and find
the treasure, but most of the time, he just tries to rape pretty much all
the female characters of the story. Of course, evetnually our treasure
hunters, good and evil alike, bump into the demon god, and of course the
demon god claims his victims, but it's hard to tell who's the greater
threat, Shakaal or the demon god ... until the demon god kills Shakaal and
makes his way out of the dungeon to threaten the whole region. But now the
locals led by Heera form an angry mob, and they use everything from
torches to ropes to chains to kicks to fight the demon god, and ultimately
he is buried under the rubble of the mansion that has come down during his
fight with the locals and staked by a massive stone column (really) -
which finally puts an end to his misdeeds. By no means a great
film, Tahkhana is nevertheless wildly entertaining as a trashy trip
through horror and pulp mainstays featuring everything from seperated
siblings with lockets that form a treasure map and your typical haunted
mansion with secret passageways to black magic and walled up monsters. Of
course, on closer inspection the script shows a myriard of plotholes and
the film's directorial effort is functional rather than inspired, but in
the context of a cilly yet colourful film just like this one this hardly
matters, it'S just a illy but enjoyable horror romp that should satisfy
every fan of exotic trash.
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