Bandh Darwaza (1990)

Directors:

Shyam Ramsay
Tulsi Ramsay

Writers:

Dev Kishan (dialogue)
Dev Kishan (story)

Release Date:

7 May 1990 (India)

Genre:

Horror

Plot Keywords:

Vampire

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Hashmat Khan
Manjeet Kullar
Kunika
Vijayendra Ghatge	...	Thakur
Satish Kaul
Anita Sareen
Anirudh Agarwal	...	Nevla
Aruna Irani
Shamsher Khan
Raza Murad
Beena Banerjee	...	Mrs. Pratap Singh (as Beena)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rajni Bala		(as Rajnibala)
Chetana Das	...	Bijli (as Chetna)
Sunil Dhawan
Jack Gaud
Bishnu Kharghoria	...	Thaaya (as Bishnu)
Johnny Lever	...	Gopi
Karunakar Pathak
Shyamalee
Ashalata Wabgaonkar		(as Ashalata)
Ashalata Waghdegare

Also Known As:

The Closed Door (India: English title)

Runtime:

155 min | USA:145 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.44 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

India:A | USA:Unrated (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

India

Company:

Ramsay Productions

Soundtrack:

Music

Good but not as wild or enjoyable as "Purana Mandir"

I have now watched the 2nd of the "Bollywood Horror Volume 1" from Mondo Macabro, having watched the first (Purana Mandir) last weekend, hey, when movies are 145 minutes long one must set aside a block of time!! I enjoyed this well enough but I didn't find it quite as awe-inspiring as Purana Mandir. I noticed some echoes of that film in this production though, as in, recycled music and there was even some little bits ripped off from American movies as well, such as the echoing "kill kill kill" from Friday The 13th". Anyway, this movie is about a young couple who want a child badly but the wife is unable to conceive, that is, until she takes the advice of one of her evil house servants and goes to Black Mountain and promises her first child (if it's a girl) to this vampire monster that lives there. Now I ask you, no matter how desperate you are to have a kid, WHY would you do this? Because, of course, the woman does have a beautiful girl child, and of course it must go the The Master, the dude with the glowing red eyes and the nasty Halloween mask on the mountain. But even though mom has been poisoned, Dad isn't about to give up his little girl to this thing and so he does battle with it and kills it, or at least slows it down enough to where his daughter can grow up to be its victim again. As with most older Bollywood movies, we have segments of horror broken up by musical interludes and even some comedy, some of which works and some just doesn't. I guess this was the last of the Ramsay Bros. "serious" horror films and it kind of shows. I am just starting to explore into the world of Indian films and those I've seen so far I've liked, for the most part, so I am anxiously waiting to see if Mondo Macabro will put out any more Ramsay Bros. stuff. 8 out of 10, not bad but Purana Mandir is more fun.