BANDH DARWAZA
BANDH DARWAZA
(Closed Door)
dir. Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay, 1990.
India. 145 mins.
In Hindi with English Subs.
SUNDAY, MARCH 2 – 5 PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 7 – MIDNIGHT
TUESDAY, MARCH 11 – 10 PM
TUESDAY, MARCH 18 – 10 PM
In 1984’s breakthrough hit PURANA MANDIR, the Ramsays found their monster in Anirudh Agarwal, a six-foot-five civil engineer with a pituitary tumor and a face seemingly carved out of granite. “They didn’t even need to put make-up on me,” he would later reflect to the BBC. Agarwal returns here for his other great Ramsay monster role, as a caped and fanged bat demon fed a steady diet of maidens by a coven of familiars. Like all Dracula stories a meditation on taboo desire and repression, much of BANDH DARWAZA is given over to a love triangle, between a temptress — who had been promised to the demon before her conception by her infertile mother — and the couple she tries to come between, even intruding on their love duets.
BANDH DARWAZA
(Closed Door)
dir. Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay, 1990.
India. 145 mins.
In Hindi with English Subs.
SUNDAY, MARCH 2 – 5 PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 7 – MIDNIGHT
TUESDAY, MARCH 11 – 10 PM
TUESDAY, MARCH 18 – 10 PM
In 1984’s breakthrough hit PURANA MANDIR, the Ramsays found their monster in Anirudh Agarwal, a six-foot-five civil engineer with a pituitary tumor and a face seemingly carved out of granite. “They didn’t even need to put make-up on me,” he would later reflect to the BBC. Agarwal returns here for his other great Ramsay monster role, as a caped and fanged bat demon fed a steady diet of maidens by a coven of familiars. Like all Dracula stories a meditation on taboo desire and repression, much of BANDH DARWAZA is given over to a love triangle, between a temptress — who had been promised to the demon before her conception by her infertile mother — and the couple she tries to come between, even intruding on their love duets.
