Careful.
[sighs]
[startled scream]
[eerie vocalisation]
Did you get scared?
Where are you going?
Let's go, Ishu.
Don't you dare take another step in that direction.
[menacing music playing]
[sinister laugh]
We've been telling you for years but you just don't get it!
This is the last time.
There's no place for you in this village.
This is our village too.
And we're just going home.
Which home?
The one that got burned down during your black magic?
Someone deliberately set our house on fire.
Really?
Tell us who that samaritan is.
We'll have them meet the village chief.
A person who burns down a house should be meeting with an inspector.
Now, move out of our way.
Or I'll take all of you to the inspector. Move!
You've lost your house but your arrogance remains intact!
This time, we'll have to teach you a memorable lesson, Meera.
This won't end well for you.
Get her sister.
[sinister laugh]
Ishu!
Don't touch Ishu.
Nobody touches my sister!
Don't spare them both.
[sinister laugh]
Let go! Ishu!
No!
- I said, don't touch my sister! - Hey!
- [screaming] - Get back!
I told you not to touch my sister.
Get away! Move!
- Get them. - [indistinct clamouring]
- Run, Ishu! - Get them!
- Catch them. - No!
[indistinct clamouring]
[menacing music playing]
[music intensifies]
[tyres screeching]
[thudding]
[poignant music playing]
[mouthing words]
Meera! Ishani!
Vayuyaan!
Come on.
[buoyant music playing]
[car door opening]
[car door closing and opening]
[menacing music playing]
[thudding]
[thunder rumbling in distance]
[disconcerting music playing]
[cryptic music playing]
[ghoulish music playing]
[cryptic vocalisation]
No one can save my Ayaan now.
Five days...
In five days,
Dakini will marry Ayaan.
[ominous vocalisation]
Ishu, here. Have some water.
Easy. Are you all right?
Hmm.
Goddess Kali, this is not done.
Don't girls deserve sisterhood too?
Why do You send so many problems our way all at once?
Such a lot in one day.
You showed me a ghost.
Had them attacked by goons.
And look at these two.
They don't have a moment's rest.
We share a sense of sisterhood
or Goddess Kali wouldn't have sent you to our rescue.
Thank you so much.
For what, Meera?
Thank God I got here before something worse happened.
- If you're here to take us back... - No!
I'm not here to take you back.
On the contrary, we're leaving Rajbari.
I say you should also leave this village, Meera.
Then why did you come after us?
Because my family grudgingly hurt you.
Really?
Sagarika, Uncle called my mother a murderer.
Mr. Choudhury refused to hear me out and you say it was grudgingly!
Meera, Uncle and Ayaan...
You're taking their side, Sagarika!
I'm not taking anyone's side, Meera.
I'm merely telling you the truth.
I know how this family might seem to a small-town girl.
In the beginning, I also found everyone to be really strange.
But when I started staying with them,
I got to know
that they are a huge but big-hearted family.
People with big hearts don't set the homes of the poor on fire.
I'm really sorry, Meera.
What happened to you was not right.
But Uncle wasn't right either.
He was in Dakini's control.
What!
Why would Dakini burn my house down?
Because she's scared of you.
Of me?
Yes.
She thinks you're the biggest thorn in the flesh.
Hence, she's scared of you.
Sagarika, a few people cornered us.
I'm still trembling from fear.
And you say Dakini is afraid of me!
Nothing happened as long as you were home.
The moment you left, this landed in Thakuma's hands.
Take a look.
What is this?
As soon as you left,
Dakini sent her and Ayaan's wedding invitation.
Do you still think Dakini isn't scared of you?
What else would I think?
And this...
This invitation... [screaming]
Ah!
[disconcerting music playing]
'King Rudrapratap And Madhumati...'
This paper burned Mother Meera's hands.
I'll punch it.
Ishu, no! I'm fine.
Nothing happened to Thakuma and me.
I'm telling the truth, Meera.
Until yesterday, I had no idea who I should believe.
But now, I'm sure Dakini exists
and she has some connection to you and Ayaan.
Even if there were a connection, it doesn't exist any more.
I'm going to Kolkata with Ishu.
I'll go there and look for a job.
I'll make some money and shift Dad to a bigger hospital.
Then we'll never return here.
That's good.
If you need anything there, please call me.
Sagarika is very nice.
I won't punch her on the nose.
No.
'Cordial Invitation'
[wind whooshing, leaves rustling]
Mom, tell Pablo to stop.
Listening to the piano in the morning
doesn't make you intelligent.
But you could be intelligent
by opening your eyes wide in the morning.
The music isn't playing on my phone.
Then who's playing it?
[piano playing]
[piano continues playing]
Thakuma!
Meera has left.
They must be on their way to Kolkata now.
[piano continues playing]
[everyone clapping]
[music stings]
Wow, Ayaan. Since when do you play the piano?
I don't know. When I sat here,
my fingers just began to play.
I think
Mom must have taught me during my childhood.
Let it be, Ishu.
This photo won't go back to the way it was.
Will this stain on my mother stay forever, Mother Meera?
[laughter]
Why are they laughing?
I didn't crack a joke.
Let it go. They must be laughing at each other's jokes.
Ignore them.
Why should I let it go?
What if it was a good joke?
I'll go and ask them.
- Wait, Ishu. - Why?
[disconcerting music playing]
'The Witch's Daughter'
Did you two do this?
Do you think this is funny?
[tense music playing]
Ishu, give it to me.
Very bad.
- Ishu! - They're not good boys.
They are bad boys
because they spoke ill about our mother.
You...
- Okay! Ishu... - Take that.
They'll be punished.
They will get a punishment.
Punishment is not land that they're bound to get it.
I'll pull their hair out!
- I will punish them. - Fine.
Ishu!
I'll snatch his tiffin!
Ishu! Snatching someone's tiffin is wrong.
Do you want to be a bad kid like them? No, right?
They called our mother a witch and our mother is not a witch!
No, she is not. Yes.
The poor girl is right.
If someone calls her mother a witch,
she's sure to feel bad.
You fools!
Aren't you Mr. Bose's son?
Should I go and tell him about the lame pranks you play?
This isn't a prank. Their mother was really a witch.
She performed black magic and offered sacrifices.
We've heard she'd even kidnap little children.
These two must have begun performing black magic by now, Aunt.
The whole village found out. So, they're going to Kolkata.
Good Lord! Kolkata!
I hope they don't move in next to us.
I've heard that black magic gets passed on.
Now, the daughters of a witch won't become goddesses.
They'll also become witches.
So much for your punishment!
Get lost! You want to snatch our tiffin!
You and your sister won't get anything to eat
no matter where you go.
Today, you're fleeing the village.
Soon, you'll have to flee Kolkata too!
And the future of those who do black magic is dark!
Ishu, wait here.
You seem to know a lot about black magic.
Fine, then.
Let's see the power of black magic.
[spooky music playing]
[fakes sinister laugh]
[eldritch music playing]
[cryptic vocalisation]
[fakes sinister laugh]
Children! Boy and lad!
May the ears of those who joke around grow long!
- Sorry, sister. We were kidding. Sorry! - Come on, let's go.
[Ishu laughs]
[laughter continues]
Today,
my king won't be able to leave the mansion.
Uncle, everyone has had breakfast and is ready to leave...
[tremulously] Dakini...
Mother! Father!
Kaustubh! Come here quickly!
- What happened? - Dakini!
[astonishing music playing]
At least you don't take this seriously.
The dupatta flew because of the wind and you thought it was Dakini!
Wouldn't I know the difference between a dupatta and Dakini?
Dakini was there!
No horror stories start in the morning.
Besides, we're leaving Rajbari.
So, this story ends here, hmm? Let's go.
[wind whooshing]
I am
Dakini.
[solemn music playing]
[nostalgic Bengali song playing]
[Bengali] 'Naughty boy!'
'Hey, come on out.' [clicks tongue]
'You've become very naughty.'
[both laugh]
'Enough. Stand straight.'
'Good boy.'
'Let me mark your height.'
'You're teaching Ayaan to spoil the walls.'
'Swastika, don't tell me when your son becomes spoilt.'
'Mischievous boy!'
'You're mimicking your father! Your father!'
'Listen, I'm not marring the wall.'
'I'm just letting this house know'
'how fast my son is growing up.'
- 'Will I be taller than you, Mom? - Yes.'
- 'And Dad too?' - [soft chuckle]
'You'll be taller than him too.'
'And this wall too?'
'How can you be taller than the wall, Ayaan?'
'Tell the house to let me grow taller than the wall.'
'The house really listens to you.'
- 'It has ears.' - [laughs]
'Listen to me, Ayaan.'
'A house might not have ears, eyes or a nose.'
'But it has a heart.'
'So, when the world robs us of our joy and peace,'
'you will feel good here at home.'
'Precisely!'
'Joy snatched my chocolate,'
'but I like it only with you.'
'And I like it with you.'
'Can I say one thing, Ayaan?'
'A home is just like a mother.'
'When you come home,'
'all your problems and sufferings will feel really small.'
'Yes!'
'I might not be there tomorrow...'
'Where are you going?'
'Stay with me.'
'Please don't ever leave me.'
'I will stay with you.'
'I also always want to live with my Ayaan.'
'Suppose'
'I can't be with you,'
'in that case,'
'come here.'
'This house will'
'remind you of our fond memories and take you in its embrace.'
'But homes don't have arms!'
[giggles]
'Um...'
'Look. You're too young, okay?'
'When you grow up a little,'
'you'll start to understand all these things.'
'But I'm already growing up so fast. When will I understand things?'
'You have a point.'
'Um...'
'When you grow a little taller, you'll get it.'
'This tall?'
[laughs]
'A little more.'
'This tall!'
'Wait, I'll show you.'
'Um, uh...'
- 'This tall. - Oh! This tall!'
[laughs]
[nostalgic Bengali song playing]
I've grown tall.
Look, I'm tall.
The same height that...
Where are you?
I have everything but you...
You're not here.
Ishu, why do you fret?
This photo can't be restored.
So, will this stain on Mom stay forever, Mother Meera?
'The lives of all my family members are in your hands, Meera.'
'Dakini will take Ayaan first'
'and then, finish everyone off.'
'Only you can save them.'
'It's true, Meera.'
'I'm sure Dakini exists'
'and she has some connection to you and Ayaan.'
[solemn music playing]
Ishu!
Ish...
[motorcycle honking]
[owl hooting]
[motorcycle honking]
[owl hooting]
Look, Mother Meera.
That owl came to us. Can we take it to Kolkata with us?
[hooting continues]
[malefic music playing]
We're already very late.
Come on, Koyal. We can't be any more late.
[morbid music playing]
[knife scraping]
[gripping music playing]
Ayaan, I understand your emotions
but please come with us now.
You can return when you find an investor.
Besides,
you won't find an investor here, right?
I've already found an investor, Sagarika.
When you come to Rajbari next, you won't recognise it.
[music playing]
I forgot to tell you about a point in my business plan.
I know the investor will put in the money
and I'll do the hard work with Mom's blessings.
But if I don't have Dad's permission...
Do I have your permission, Dad?
I'm proud of you, son.
Had your mother been alive, she'd have wanted this too.
Go ahead.
I love you, Dad.
[sentimental music playing]
Thank you. Thank you so much.
What are you looking at? Come here.
[disconcerting music playing]
[tense music playing]
[ominous vocalisation]
'Dakini.'