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Kashmora (1986 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Kashmora' is a 1986 Indian Telugu-language horror film, produced by M. Sudhakar Reddy under the Ushodhaya Movies banner and directed by N. B. Chakravarthy. It stars Rajendra Prasad, Dr. Rajasekhar and Bhanupriya. The music was composed by Chakravarthy. The film was recorded as a 'Super Hit' at the box office.
Plot
The film begins, with 3 people, Sridhar (Sarath Babu), Jaya Dev (Sridhar) & Abraka Dhabara (Nutan Prasad), eliminating a sorcerer Khadra (Bheemaraju) in a remote village Bista to protect Sridhar's sister Tulasi (Bhanu Priya) from 'Kashmora' powerful black magic. Vishachi (Rajanala), the head of wizards, creates another powerful sorcerer Darkha (Rajendra Prasad) takes to avenge the homicides of Khadra. Darkha takes a pledge to slay them and the only source to find them is Thulasi, that too within a year since 'Kashmora' waking up to slaughter Thulasi. After facing many troubles, Darkha reaches the city, a priest (P. J. Sarma) educates him to live in modern society, he also identifies him as a sorcerer and takes an assurance never to misuse his power on innocent people. Parallelly, the 3 friends continue their friendship even though Dr. Rambabu (Dr. Rajashekar) son of Jayadev, Shadow (Shubhaleka Sudhakar) brother of Abraka Dabra, & Tulasi are also good friends. Once Tulasi challenges to bring out the reality of a fake god-woman Siddeshwari (Jaya Chitra) who displays parlor tricks to cheat people. At the same time, Siddeshwari learns about Darkha, she kidnaps him to use his abilities to increase her following, but he refuses. So, she decides to kill him when Thulasi & Shadow intervene, protect him, and expose Siddeshwari but she absconds. Here Darkha recognizes Thulasi finds out the whereabouts of the 3 and gets ready to take revenge. Simultaneously, Siddeshwari also challenges to destroy Thulasi, Darkha, & Shadow and executes her plan using by hypnotizing Rambabu who slowly poisons Thulasi.
Meanwhile, Darkha tries to wipe out Sridhar, but unfortunately, his daughter Archana (Baby Seeta) dies and a transformation starts in Darkha toward humanity. Ahead, Thulasi's health goes on wrest due to slow poison. Next Darkha hits Abraka Dabra, and aims to knock out his wife Saku (Anitha) through black magic, who is none other than the daughter of his mentor priest, he reverses it and dies. Viewing his death, the humanity inside Darkha awakes and takes a vow not to harm any creature in the universe. Thereafter, he again falls into the clutches of Siddeshwari but manages to escape, reaches Shadow, and reveals her evil deed towards Thulasi. Now, Darkha & Shadow get back to Rambabu regularly with the help of Jayadev. Parallelly, the one-year period completes and Kashmora attacks Thulasi. Darkha struggles to bar it using his skills. In the meantime, Sridhar reaches Siddeshwari through her, and he learns about Darkha's revenge. After her arrest, when Sridhar returns home, he spots Darkha drawing a 'Sri Chakram' to protect Thulasi, but Sridhar misunderstands and throws him out of the house. Eventually, Tulasi is mislaid and she has been called to the burial ground by Vishachi, who arrived from Bista. At present, Darkha too lands when combat arises between Vishachi & Darkha, one as the destroyer and another as the protector of Thulasi. At last, Darkha succeeds in stopping Kashmora by offering his soul, putting Vishachi to death when Sridhar arrives and fires on him. Before dying, Darkha asks everyone to remember him in their heart that a wizard died for goodwill.
Cast
*Rajendra Prasad as Darkha
*Dr. Rajasekhar as Ram Babu
*Bhanupriya as Thulasi
*Sarath Babu as Sridhar
*Nutan Prasad as Abraka Dabra
*Subhalekha Sudhakar as Shadow
*Sridhar as Jayadev
*Rajanala as Vishachi
*Rallapalli as Santana Pakir
*P. J. Sarma as Priest
*Bhimaraju as Khadra
*Juttu Narasimham as Paidithalli
*Jayachitra as Sidhaswari Devi
*Sangeeta as Sarada
*Rajyalakshmi as Poornima
*Roja Ramani in a special appearance
*Anitha as Saku
*Nirmalamma as Thulasi's Bamma
*Baby Seeta as Archana
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Chakravarthy. The lyrics were written by Veturi. The music was released on Saptaswar Audio Company.
Others
* VCDs and DVDs on SHALIMAR Video Company, Hyderabad
References
Category:Indian horror thriller films
Category:1980s Telugu-language films
Category:1980s horror thriller films
Category:1986 horror films
Category:1986 films
Category:Films scored by K. Chakravarthy
Category:Films based on novels by Yandamuri Veerendranath
Category:Films based on Indian novels
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