The tyrannical Angulimal (Bhushan), a bandit wearing a garland of severed human fingers and who engages in bloody mystical rituals to achieve divine power, eventually succumbs to the Buddha’s teachings. Nimmi played Angulimal’s lover.
Practical Effects
That finger garland is nightmare fuel made real.
Costume
Peak mythological Bollywood excess, no subtlety allowed.
Director
Vijay Bhatt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a real figure from Buddhist texts—Angulimala was supposedly a reformed killer who became an arhat, making this India's original true crime redemption story.
Director Vijay Bhatt was known for mythological spectacles; this was his attempt to out-melodrama the Ramayana films dominating 1960s box offices.
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