[solemn music playing]
[cryptic music stings]
[switch clicking]
[suspenseful music building]
[music concludes]
[spluttering] I think she's gone.
What if she comes back?
[spluttering] Yes, she can return. Let's go.
[door creaks open]
[suspenseful music building]
[eldritch cry]
Thakuma risked her life to write this letter,
and yet she visited me in my dream.
Mr. Choudhury!
Do you still think this is a coincidence, a story or a fib?
I have no answer.
But it does not mean
I would believe in your supernatural entity.
I'm not asking you to believe in it, Mr. Choudhury.
I, my dreams and this page
are trying to tell you
that some truths are stranger than stories.
Whether you believe this strange truth or not
is up to you.
[music playing]
Say something, Mr. Choudhury.
Here, son.
Son, like your father,
you too always look for logic.
Try listening to your heart.
Not a story,
but you can show some faith in your grandma, right?
Thakuma was so desperate to get through to you,
she visited Meera in her dream.
Won't you fulfil her last wish, Ayaan?
Sagarika, how do I know if she really came in her dream?
Thakuma visited her in a dream, and dreams are not reality.
But she's my Thakuma.
If there's even a 0.1% chance that she came in her dream,
it means that's her last wish.
Fine.
I will make every possible effort to get to the bottom of this story.
[music playing]
[wincing]
What is this?
I can't believe my London-returned brother
is believing in Dakini!
When did I say that?
Whatever you said is enough, Mr. Choudhury.
Thakuma warned us about Dakini for such a long time.
And half the family was with us.
Now, you're with us too.
Perhaps, Dakini might not like this.
The new moon day is approaching.
She will get even more violent to marry you.
Let's be careful.
Ishani, Mom...
I want to go to Mom.
Koyal, speak softly.
I also want to go to Mother Meera.
If we leave, we'll have to tell them about what we did,
and then, we'll get a scolding.
Koyal, we can't hide here forever.
I don't think she left, I feel that she's still here.
[disconcerting music playing]
[spluttering] What happened, Koyal?
Look there...
[gasping]
[spluttering] Koyal, run!
Koyal! Run!
You have to be the most careful, Meera.
Dakini visits you in your dreams consistently and is threatening you.
And yes! Mom visited her in her dreams too.
And the dream you saw came true.
Why is this happening just with you?
I don't know.
I think Ms. Ghosh's ESP is quite strong.
The TV channel your grandpa keeps watching?
No, Sagarika.
Extrasensory perception.
Interpreting dreams,
the knowledge of future events
or making contact with people who have departed the world.
It's delusion in a way.
Science has no place for it. It just has an English term.
Ayaan, go convince science then
because I believe
the answers to our questions lie in Ms. Ghosh's dreams.
So, Ms. Ghosh, sleep for a while.
- What! - Child, the Garuda Purana states
that the soul wanders near its home
until thirteen days after a person's death.
Mom might try to tell you something again.
Or Dakini might tell you what her next move is going to be.
I really think you should sleep.
Great plan.
If Dakini visits you in your dream,
ask her if she plans on staying here.
We'll get her ID card made!
Gosh, Ayaan! That was worse than our lame jokes.
You're the ones joking.
The family's facing a problem and you're asking her to sleep.
Mr. Choudhury, no one was going to sleep.
I don't care where anyone goes.
I know where I've to go.
Thakuma went somewhere to meet someone a week ago.
This madness started after that.
[crows cawing in distance]
Didn't you hate shortcuts?
This isn't a shortcut.
It's the only way to get to our destination.
How do you know this is the right way?
Thakuma called one more number last week, other than the family.
I did some research
and found this address.
[suspenseful music playing]
'Ramacharya Shastri'
This place is in the middle of nowhere!
How can someone live in a hut in the middle of the forest?
- Baba! Baba... - [wincing]
Baba, save my son. He broke his leg.
Please save my son!
Please open the door, baba. Save my son.
What!
Mister, don't you get it?
Your son has sustained a fracture.
Take him to the hospital. He's in a lot of pain.
He's my son. I know how to cure him.
Baba will cure my son. Don't cry.
What nonsense!
What superstitious people!
He can't see his son's suffering. He's in a lot of pain.
Thakuma came to this fraud baba!
It's this man's fault.
And how do you know that the baba is a fraud?
We'll find out in a minute.
Baba! Open the door, baba.
[loud thumping]
A little boy is dying in pain and you refuse to come out!
Please go to the hospital quickly.
[clanking]
[cryptic vocalisation]
[clanking]
- Where are you taking me? - I think that baba was lying.
That baba is cranky and a liar. He has to be a fraud.
No, Mr. Choudhury!
- I think he knows a lot about Dakini. - How do you know?
Because I read his name when I was researching Dakini.
Ramacharya Shastri!
'No one has seen Dakini's real face to date'
'except one person.'
'This is Mr. Ramacharya Shastri's only picture.'
'When he saw Dakini, he was about five years old,'
'and he's still alive.'
'He witnessed a woman becoming a dakini.'
'Oh...'
'This means...'
'This means Mr. Ramacharya Shastri must be in his late nineties.'
'I don't know if he's even alive.'
'And even if he is, how will I find him?'
That book didn't have his address.
But Thakuma must have found it.
And the way he denied it, I'm sure he's hiding something.
We're back here.
No one will open the door to us. Now what?
What'd we do when the ball
would land in the neighbour's house while playing?
We'd get a new ball and play. You?
I wasn't as rich as you, Mr. London.
What would you do?
What we're about to do now.
We'll climb the window and go inside.
Are you out of your mind?
Will we trespass?
I guess we've reached an impasse but let's go inside first.
Trespass means to go onto someone's property without their permission.
Right. Dakini is residing in your property without permission.
We've to throw her out.
- Please leave my hand. - I'm not...
[eldritch cry]
"O, beloved..."
Um...
"O, beloved..."
- I don't know why I was holding your... - Shush.
Let's go.
Hmm! Okay, get down on all fours.
What!
You want to play games right now!
No. You'll get down on all fours, I'll climb your back
so I can get in through the window.
This is legally wrong.
But it's morally right.
And that requires a lot of courage, which I guess you don't have.
So, it's fine. I'll do it myself.
How?
I'll get down on all fours, climb on my back and jump in!
- Are you sure? - Yes.
Fine. Do it, I want to watch. Go on.
[whimsical music playing]
Shall...
[whimsical music continues]
[rattling]
[guitar strumming]
[wind whooshing]
"Written on the pages of love"
"is a story unfulfilled."
"It is not new."
"It started years ago."
"There was a king,"
"as also a queen..."
Watch your step, Meera.
Learn to take a little risk, Mr. Choudhury.
"Written on the pages of love"
"is a story unfulfilled."
"It is not new."
"It started years ago..."
[music playing]
[song fades out]
- What are we... - Shush!
Looking for?
I don't know.
You don't?
But we won't leave without it.
Leave without what?
I don't know!
You're strange.
What are we looking for? Why have we come here?
Hang on. Don't say you don't know.
Yes... I mean, something that's really different and frightening.
[scoffs]
Well, you're different and frightening!
[malefic music playing]
[gasps]
[romantic music playing]
- [loud rattling] - "O, beloved..."
"O, beloved..."
[romantic music continues]
"O, beloved..."
[music concludes]
[intriguing music playing]
[suspenseful music building]
[music intensifies]
'This is the same dupatta that was in baba's childhood photo.'
[gripping music playing]
[thwacking]
[thudding]
[cryptic vocalisation]
What are you doing here?
[spluttering] Uh, baba, we...
'Dakini's Secret'
Dakini's secret!
What other work is there apart from Thakuma's rites?
Ayaan should've been here with us.
Where have you sent him?
This is the difference between Ayaan and Koyal, Kaustubh.
Ayaan's an adult.
I didn't send him anywhere. He went on his own.
Don't taunt me!
We've left all our work, Kolkata and business and are stuck here,
and God knows what's happening here.
We should all leave after the funeral.
We tried so many times but could not leave.
And she won't let us leave.
Dakini is going to attack again.
Mom! Dad!
Koyal!
What happened? What happened, Koyal?
Ishani's shadow isn't like her.
Ishani is doing something else.
What! What does that mean?
I don't know. Something has happened to Ishani's shadow.
Ishani! What happened, child? Are you all right?
Tell me everything.
[spluttering] In that room, I and...
And a shadow...
Shut up!
Where did a shadow come from?
From the time she and her sister came here,
they've been talking nonsense and trying to scare us.
Stay away from my daughter.
I won't let my daughter anywhere near her.
At least hear what she has to say, Kaustubh.
Why should I?
I heard my daughter and saw her face.
What kind of a mother are you?
Despite seeing her all terrified, you're worried about someone else.
They're both scared.
Because she scared her!
Koyal, you won't play with her again, hmm?
Come on.
And you!
Stay away from my family, understood?
Let's go.
[dramatic music playing]
[music concludes]
[screaming]
[sobbing] Mother Meera...
I'll call Mother Meera.
She'll come. She'll be here soon.
You said you didn't know Dakini. Then what's this book doing here?
'Dakini's Secret'
Your Thakuma made the mistake of ignoring my warning.
Don't repeat that mistake.
Leave from here immediately.
Thakuma!
Why did Thakuma come here?
Why should I answer your question?
This concerns my family.
If Dakini exists, why is she after my family?
What does she want? Tell me, baba.
You!
She wants you, Rudrapratap Choudhury!
[unsettling music playing]
My name is Ayaan Choudhury.
It is today.
A hundred years ago though,
you had a different name and body
but the same face.
You're a reincarnation of Rudrapratap Choudhury.
The very Rudrapratap Choudhury
who was Dakini's beloved a hundred years ago.
I know I look like him,
but what you're saying is utter nonsense.
You're making up a story.
This is not rubbish. I'm not cooking this up.
You and she were about to be married.
[dramatic music playing]
'Cordial Invitation'
[clicks tongue]
Meera, let's leave.
So,
why didn't they get married?
I was five.
'My father was working at Rajbari then.'
'I used to go there every day to give him lunch.'
'That day also, I went there to give him his lunch'
'and saw...'
[screaming]
'His Majesty!'
'I'll meet my end but my story will never end.'
'I will return to conclude my story.'
'My life will come to an end,'
'but my love will not.'
'I will come back for my Rudrapratap!'
'I'll return.'
'Wait for me.'
'I'll be back.'
I don't know why she died,
but I do know
that she waited for you for a century.
If she can transcend
the boundary between life and death to be with you again,
she will go to any extent to make you hers.
[tense music playing]