Roresishms

A Virtual World of Live Pictures.

Gehrayee is a Bollywood horror movie with an all-star cast. After Mahal, I think of Gehrayee as the Bollywood horror movie that had a cast few would match.

The cast included Shreeram Lagoo, Anant Nag, Indrani Mukherjee, Padmini Kolhapure, and Amrish Puri in a special role. Aruna Raje directs this script by Vijay Tendulkar.

It’s interesting that today, talk of the film is marred by silly controversy. It’s a unique and well-made film, which could have spiraled down the path of sleaze. Maybe a director in charge didn’t let that happen. This is everything you would like to know about Gehrayee.

Synopsis for Gehrayee

Chennabasappa is a successful businessman who has decided to sell his village land. His family’s servant, Baswa, is not happy about it, but he can do little more than accept his employer’s edict.

Chennabasappa tells Baswa that he will make sure he gets a job at the factory he is starting. Chenna’s family includes his wife, his son and his daughter. Chenna does not believe in the supernatural and has a strict and domineering nature.

Although everyone respects him, no one is happy with his domineering nature. His son Nandu already has a conflicted nature with his father. Things never go well between father and son. Uma, the youngest daughter, is also busy with her life, her school being the center of her universe. Nandu decides to go on a picnic on the eighteenth of that month.

His servant, Ramu, tries to persuade him not to travel that day. Both Chenna and Nandu dismiss this as rural superstition. On that fateful day, Chenna doesn’t have a positive board meeting. Also, they get a call that Nandu has had an accident. The news of the accident turns out to be a false alarm and Nandu returns home safe and sound.

Uma begins to behave strangely and the family tries to solve the problem. Things take a turn for the worse when one day, Uma behaves strangely towards Nandu’s girlfriend, who had come to visit the family. The family is now desperate because of how Uma behaves.

The most problematic aspect is that Uma begins to speak in a brazen and harsh language and speaks in a very vulgar and rural dialect. The apparently high society and the well educated family cannot bear it.

One day, Nandu decides to spend the whole day with his sister, so that his eyes can refresh. Nandu and Uma have fun together. However, when they return home, Uma goes into a trance and tries to seduce Nandu.

The psychiatrist now says that the only solution for Uma is shock treatment. Uma’s mother is very worried about this. At the same time, the family is also shocked by Uma’s behavior towards Nandu.

That’s when the house servant, Ramu, suggests that they should show Uma to a Baba. When the family is a little demanding about it, he tells them that she could at least bring a lemon that is purified with some sacred chants. He tells them that the sacred sung lemon must be placed under Uma’s pillow. If the lemon turns black the next morning, Uma is possessed. If the lemon does not change color, all is well with Uma.

Nandu tries to reason with his father against shock treatment, but to no avail. Distraught, he agrees to Ramu’s idea of ​​the sacred lemon. That night, they put the lemon under Uma’s bed.

In the morning, Nandu and Ramu check if the lemon has turned black. However, to his surprise, in the morning, the lemon was gone. The trio keep this to themselves.

At night, when Uma is playing carrom with the family, she falls into another delusion and tells about Mahadeamma, who committed suicide because she was pregnant out of wedlock. This is when Chenna’s wife finally understands that this possession has something to do with her husband and Baswa’s wife.

Chenna confesses everything to his wife. He tells her that he had a one night stand with Baswa’s wife when he was very young. That concluded that she was pregnant. After this, Uma receives a shock treatment.

Uma returns from shock treatment but things aren’t going as they should. The next day, the food turns into cow dung. Chenna freaks out and accuses Rama of trying to disturb the house. Ramu leaves the house.

Uma’s condition worsens and the problem between Nandu and her father increases. But looking at Uma’s condition, even he agrees to use supernatural activities to cure Uma. They contact various Swamis and Gurus.

Chenna forgives Ram and Rama returns as well. One of the gurus promises that Uma will be fine. He asks Uma’s mother if Uma is a virgin. She replies in the affirmative and Baba says that she will perform a pooja the next day.

However, he kidnaps Uma in the night and attempts to sacrifice her to a God he prays to. However, the family does not give up and he contacts another Baba scholar. When he enters the house, he immediately discovers the lemon, lying on top of the roof.

Baba then tells the family that they will find something in the trees. As expected, they find witchcraft material. The Baba burns the material together with the lemon.

He invites them to his house the next day, so he can pray with Uma and banish the demon forever and ever. Chenna has some misgivings, but she eventually bends to the will of her family.

During the prayer ceremony, Baba finds out all there is to know about Uma’s possession. The demon confesses that Baswa had another Baba capture him and order him to possess Uma.

Baba banishes the spirit, who promises that he will never return. Nandu also shuts down by going to the village and questioning Baswa’s spirit, who recounts everything that happened between his wife and Chenna.

Gehrayee Review

There can be no movie like Gehrayee. Gehrayee is one of those very rare Bollywood horror movies that makes you annoyed, scared and rebelled.

All of this, while sending a message about everything that is wrong with India: the caste system, the divide between rich and poor, and the strange misogyny we live by, even today.

The film was released in 1980, but the story is still relevant today. Turn on any of your favorite true crime series and you’ll see a Gehrayee-type story. The sacrificial scene, Uma is naked in that one.

Director Aruna Raje uses a peculiar camera angle that is presented as being on this side of voyeurism. Not the 90s kind of camera angle, but still. Another controversial scene is when Uma approaches Nandu, her biological brother.

Even for those who find it controversial, it’s a mild shock and something that creeps under the skin for a while. That same year he saw the release of starter Padmini Kolhapure Insaf the Tarazu.

That movie also had an extended sexual assault scene shot on Padmini, which put her in the infamous category. Raj Kapoor cast her in the conventional film Prem Rog.

However, she won the award for best supporting actress for Insaf ka Tarazu. Gehrayee is a must-see for horror movie audiences of all ages and regions. It will be a learning experience for them.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *