When a successful manager decides to sell his plantation in his ancestral village to another company, his young daughter begins acting strangely.
Acting
Padmini Kolhapure's possession scenes still haunt forty years later.
Direction
Raje-Desai build dread through silence, not jump scares.
Score
Vani Jairam's vocals turn folk melodies into nightmare fuel.
Director
Aruna Raje
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gehrayee emerged from India's 'parallel cinema' movement, using horror to critique feudal land ownership and Brahminical patriarchy rarely addressed in mainstream Bombay films.
The directors cut their teeth assisting Shyam Benegal; this was their commercial breakthrough, though producers demanded the 'item song' that feels jarringly out of place.
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