[heavy footsteps]
[wolves howling in distance]
[thunder rumbling]
[disconcerting music playing]
[lightning crackling]
[eerie music playing]
[Bengali] "I belong to you."
[Bengali] "You belong to me."
[Bengali] "Mine..."
[Bengali] "You are mine..."
Dakini...
My king!
[screaming]
"Written on the pages of love"
"is a story unfulfilled."
If the young members in the family die before the elders,
they become our ancestors.
We could also pray to them
for the safety of our sons while we are alive.
Please watch over him, Daughter-in-law.
[soft clanking]
- This is Ayaan's... - Great-grandfather.
Mr. Rudrapratap Choudhury.
Right! Kaustubh mentioned him.
He looks just like Ayaan.
Ayaan looks like him.
Yes.
[solemn music playing]
Thakuma!
What's on your mind?
You know, Sagarika?
If kids resemble or take after their ancestors,
it is considered a blessing.
But Ayaan's uncanny resemblance to him
is not a blessing, but a curse.
- Thakuma! - What happened?
Ayaan is nowhere to be found. He's not in his room either.
[plate clanking]
Pablo, gather everyone.
Tell them we have to go to the old well this instant. Arnab!
[dramatic music playing]
[fire crackling]
[garland thuds]
[thunder rumbling]
[eerie music playing]
[spooky music playing]
Excuse me, Mr. Choudhury!
'My king.'
[water gurgling]
[eerie vocalisation]
'What is Mr. Choudhury doing at this well at this hour?'
[water gurgling]
Mr. Choudhury!
[water gurgling]
[eldritch music playing]
Ayaan!
[screaming]
[gripping music playing]
[thud]
[thunder rumbling]
[romantic song playing]
[gasping]
Ayaan!
Ayaan, you...
- Are you okay? - I'm fine, Thakuma.
Thakuma, I...
Where am I?
[music playing]
[thunder rumbling]
Ayaan!
I was in the washroom.
When I got back, you weren't in your room.
[Koyal sobbing]
What happened, Koyal?
What happened?
Why are you crying? Sit here.
What happened? Why are you crying?
Tell me.
Tell me what's wrong, Koyal.
Did someone say something?
Hi.
I'm Meera Ghosh from customer care.
Pick the index finger to speak in Hindi and Bengali
and the middle finger to speak in English!
Are you scared?
Strange things keep happening. Will something happen to us?
Fear and faith are in our minds.
We just need to do one thing.
Visualise the word 'faith' in bold letters
and underline it.
If fear still exists,
it will look small in comparison to faith, correct?
You know?
When my sister and I get scared,
we remind each other that Goddess is with us.
To know the Goddess' location, nod your head.
The Goddess resides in our hearts.
And when She is with us, then why fear?
Right?
I, Meera Ghosh from customer care, really enjoyed talking to you.
I, Koyal, liked it too.
When Ayaan's mother passed away,
he started sleepwalking.
If he's sleepwalking again, it's no big deal.
The big deal is that Ayaan sleepwalked right to the old well.
Everything is happening like I said it would.
It is happening because you said so.
Yes, Mom.
Your statements and superstitions
are etched in his subconscious mind.
And yours is overcome with obstinacy!
The truth is before you,
but your obduracy blinds you to it.
Superstition!
[sighs]
I don't see the truth!
She must have, right?
- Meera? - Yes.
- She was there, right? - Yes. So?
So what, Mom?
Let's ask her.
Come on.
Let's go.
Hey, um... Listen.
Uh...
Meera Ghosh from customer care.
You saved Ayaan from falling into the well!
Yes.
Thank you.
Did you see a girl there?
No.
Ayaan was only sleepwalking, Mom.
[Bengali] I don't get it, Mom!
Without any proof, how...
How can you believe this story?
Believers don't need any proof.
As for non-believers, no amount of proof is enough.
That is why I won't present any proof.
All I'll say is
that we won't stay here any longer.
Why, Thakuma?
Because I said so!
The decision is yours.
Is reason more important to you or is your Thakuma?
[music playing]
The loss of losing a mother is so great
that it can't be felt in one go.
Life delivers it in two phases.
The first phase is when the mother leaves.
And the second phase...
Daily...
You experience it daily in life.
The person who has lost a mother
doesn't go a day without crying.
[sentimental vocalisation]
Pain comes in instalments.
You've to repay it every day.
And this isn't just about the loss, but disgrace too.
This house is my mother's last memory
and I wanted to clear the blemish on it
that...
That people keep saying this mansion is haunted,
Dakini resides here.
That blemish!
But if a cloth tears while trying to wash off the stain,
there's no point in washing it.
[poignant music playing]
I know my dream is important
but not more than my family.
If fulfilling my dream
deprives my Thakuma of her happiness,
scares that little girl Koyal and my entire family,
then that dream isn't important to me.
To me, nothing is more important than my family.
[sentimental vocalisation]
Thakuma, I know I'm right
but my obsession with proving myself isn't.
The truth is bigger,
but not more than my family or you.
[sentimental vocalisation]
I wanted to turn this mansion into a hotel,
clear my mother's memories of the blemishes
but I'll sacrifice everything for your happiness.
[music playing]
I will do as you say.
Let's go.
[zapping]
[unsettling music playing]
The power is gone.
We ought to leave now.
She will not
let us leave so easily.
[gate creaking]
[gate creaks shut]
[wind whooshing]
[gate rattling]
[rattling intensifies]
[spooky music playing]
[ghoulish vocalisation]
[wind whooshing]
[dramatic music stings]
[guitar strumming]
[eerie vocalisation]
[romantic song playing]
[gate rattling]
[rattling continues]
Hail the Goddess!
[pulls gate open]
[thunder rumbling]
[spooky music playing]
Oi, driver!
One of the suitcases has come here!
[suspenseful music playing]
[eldritch music playing]
[wind whooshing]
Thank you.
Had you not arrived in time, I wonder what would've happened.
It's okay.
Actually, I overheard you and came to know that...
What's this?
This is for saving my life.
You're paying me!
Is it too little?
Hang on.
- There's no need. - Why not?
While you rich people put a price on a person's life,
the poor don't do so even for favours!
What you did is called help.
That's precisely what I did,
but you behaved presumptuously and turned it into a favour.
And yes!
My younger sister sleepwalks too
but nothing like you were.
It seemed as though you knew where you were going.
Not this again!
This is why I fired your...
You fired my dad, right?
Yes.
No need to tell Thakuma about this.
What must I not be told, Ayaan?
[tense music stings]
That Mr. London...
Your grandson is a nice guy.
I helped him and saved his life.
He keeps calling it a favour, right?
And in return for that favour, he is reinstating my father.
He was asking me not to tell you about this.
He's a really big one!
What!
Big-hearted!
He's really big-hearted.
He refuses to take credit for it.
You did a good thing by reinstating Debashish, Ayaan.
We as well as this mansion
really need Debashish and his family.
[joyous music playing]
[thunder rumbling]
[eerie music stings]
Who's there?
Who is it?
[thunder rumbling]
[wind whooshing]
Assistant!
[swooshing]
[clanking]
[swooshing]
Oh, God!
[swooshing]
- [blow landing] - [thudding]
[car alarm chirping]
[car doors opening]
[car door closing]
[car door opening]
[car door closing]
Where did Dad go?
He must have gone home.
[owl hooting]
[wings flapping]
[owl hooting]
[suspenseful music playing]
This is Dad's stick!
[owl continues hooting]
[gripping music playing]
[owl continues hooting]
Dad!
Dad, who...
Dad! How did you get hurt, Dad?
Get up, Dad!
Don't worry about me.
Listen to me carefully.
Go after them immediately.
I'll take you home first, Dad, and then go anywhere else.
- Come on. - Listen to me, Meera.
Go to Mrs. Choudhury and tell her this.
"She has found an assistant and he won't let them leave."
Dad, who has found what? I don't understand.
- Come with me. - She will understand.
Go and tell her,
"She has found an assistant and he won't let them leave."
- Dad! - Go... Go, Meera!
- Dad! No, Dad! Dad... - Go and tell her.
- Go! I said, go! - Dad!
Dad!
Go! Go, Meera!
You have my swear.
[intense music playing]
[thunder rumbling]
Assistant!
Humph!
Ayaan came to Rudrapur in the morning
and we followed suit.
Now, he's going to Kolkata and we're following him.
More than our will, our suitcases decide where we go!
Ayaan is Mother's grandson.
Yes. So what?
Koyal is our granddaughter, right?
If her life were in danger,
wouldn't we move heaven and earth to save her?
Tell me. Would we not?
Yes, we would.
That's it. Mom's doing the same thing.
Hmm?
[Koyal] Should we play a game?
We can't play football in the car!
Gosh! There are other games in life than football!
Okay! Then you tell us which game we should play.
Hmm... Yes.
All three of us will look out our windows.
Okay.
We've to count the passersby.
Done.
Whoever's count reaches five wins.
- Okay. - Done.
Done.
[Pablo] Ayaan!
Let's suppose what Thakuma said is true.
A male ghost could have pursued you too!
- But you're so handsome that... - Shut up, Pablo.
Mom, why do you worry? We're headed home.
We're on our way.
We haven't reached yet, Arnab.
She won't let us leave so easily.
[bicycle chain clanking]
[menacing music playing]
There's no one on the road.
How will we play the game?
[suspenseful music playing]
One!
- [tyres screeching] - [crashing]
Is Koyal fine?
Yes.
- You? - I'm fine, Ayaan, but why did you apply the brakes?
I thought there was someone.
- Who? - Who?
No one... It must have been an animal.
[car door opening]
[car door closing]
- Um, Ayaan! - Hmm?
Start the car. We will push it.
Okay.
[car door opening and closing]
[suspenseful vocalisation]
Why has she stopped us? What is she trying to do?
[car door opening]
[car doors closing]
What are you doing here? Is everything all right?
Dad told me to give you a message.
I didn't understand it but he said that you would.
- She has found an assistant. - [gasps]
She won't let them leave.
[ghoulish vocalisation]
'He has been working for us for fifteen years.'
'He never raised his voice to anyone'
'but he killed so many people today! This is strange.'
'I'm merely an assistant.'
'She will get her work done by any means whatsoever.'
[unsettling music playing]
Things are unfolding the way they did years ago.
She has found an assistant.
- He won't let us leave. - Mom!
- Your BP will shoot up. - She has found an assistant.
- Assistant? What assistant? - She won't let us leave.
- What assistant?
- She won't let us leave. - Thakuma...
Excuse me. What are you doing here?
What happened to Thakuma? And who's this assistant?
[eerie vocalisation]
[ominous whispering]
Oh, no!
[car door opening]
[ominous whispering]
[whispering fades out]