After the murder of her husband, a young man comes to her mansion to
take care of the heiress's affairs - and even though she immediately distrusts him,
they soon fall in love and marry. Then one night, the two of them get
involved in a car accident, where the victim weirdly enough disappears.
The heiress immediately wants to call the police, but her husband
dissuades her from doing so. The next day though, a weird guy shows up at
their place claiming to be a special investigator and to have knowledge
of their hit-and-run accident. But instead of arresting them, he
blackmails them into letting him stay at the mansion. Upset by their new
houseguest, the couple soon call the heiress's uncle, who ultimately kills
the cop and buries his body. This is where the problems really start though, as
the cop keeps appearing to the heiress time and again, so much so that she
goes crazy and hangs herself - but her young son witnesses it all and
calls ... the supposed-to-be-dead special investigator, who now turns out
to be neither dead nor the bad guy of the story, but a heroic cop sent
here to protect the heiress ... but protect her from whom? The cop's first
suspect is naturally her husband, but then, he, too turns out to be at the
right side of the law - which leaves of course the uncle, who wants to get
his hands on the heiress's fortune and has since taken the her son
hostage. In the big finale, the hero cop, grossly outnumbered by the
uncle's henchmen, fights and defeats them all, throws the uncle out of a
window to his death, catches a bullet but lives long enough to return the
boy to his mother ... Rather old-fashioned haunted house
thriller (without any actual haunting going on of course) from the Bengal
branch of the Indian film industry - which doesn't mean Lalkuthi
isn't your typical genre mix full of song-and-dance-numbers, just like
your typical Bollywood movie. This may sound more interesting than it is
though, as the film offers little in terms of surprises or action (until
the finale at least), its shocks are repetitive and rather basic, and the
plot is almost completely predictable. That said, Lalkuthi is not
a total loss, its an ok, average low budget effort. Still, if you're not
deeply into Bengal movies, you might want to give this one a miss.
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