Kashmora (1986 film)

Kashmora
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	N. B. Chakravarthy
Produced by	M. Sudhakar Reddy
Screenplay by	N. B. Chakravarthy
Story by	Yandamuri Veerendranath
Based on	Tulasi (novel)
Starring	Rajendra Prasad Dr. Rajasekhar Bhanupriya
Music by	Chakravarthy
Cinematography	V. S. R. Swamy
Edited by	D. Venkataratnam
Production company	Ushodhaya Movies[1]
Release date	21 March 1986 (1986-03-21)
Running time	140 mins
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Kashmora (English: A Powerful Black Magic) is a 1986 Telugu horror suspense thriller, produced by M. Sudhakar Reddy under the Ushodhaya Movies banner and directed by N. B. Chakravarthy.^[2] It stars Rajendra Prasad, Dr. Rajasekhar and Bhanupriya in the lead roles. The music was composed by Chakravarthy.^[3] The film was recorded as a Super Hit at the box office.^[4]

Plot

The movie begins with three people, Sridhar (Sarath Babu), Jaya Dev (Sridhar) and Abraka Dhabara (Nutan Prasad), killing a sorcerer Khadra (Bheemaraju) at the remote village of Bista to protect Sridhar's sister Thulasi (Bhanu Priya) from Kashmora, a powerful evil spirit of black magic. Vishachi (Rajanala), the head of these wizards, trains another powerful sorcerer Darkha (Rajendra Prasad) to kill these three. Darkha takes an oath to his master that he will kill them, the first one psychologically, the second one with his black magic and the last by his own hands. Vishachi informs him that the only source to find these three people is Thulasi, that too within a year since Kashmora would wake up and kill Thulasi if he delays. After facing a lot of troubles, Darkha reaches the city. A priest (P. J. Sarma) takes pity and educates him on how to live in the modern society, but not before he finds that Darkha is a black magic sorcerer; he makes Darkha take an oath that he will never misuse his power on innocent people. Taking his leave, he starts in search of his targets, Dr. Rambabu (Dr. Rajashekar) son of Jayadev, Shadow (Shubhaleka Sudhakar) brother of Abraka Dabra, and Thulasi who are also good friends who live happily with their families.

Siddeshwari (Jaya Chitra) is a fake god-woman, who displays "supernatural powers" i.e. parlor tricks to cheat people. Thulasi challenges with her friends that she will bring out the reality of Siddeshwari into the public. At the same time, Siddeshwari comes to know Darkha is a real sorcerer. She kidnaps him to use his abilities to increase her following, but he does not agree due to the word he had given to the priest. She decides to kill him, but eventually, Thulasi intervenes and protects him with the help of Shadow and exposes Siddeshwari's true nature to the public. The police try to arrest her, but she manages to escape. Darkha comes to know that the girl who protected him is one he is searching for. From her, he finds out the other three, i.e. Sridhar, Jayadev and Abraka Dabra, and proceeds with his plan to kill them in three methods he promised. Simultaneously, Siddeshwari also takes an oath to kill Thulasi, Darkha, and Shadow for exposing her.

Siddeshwari is trying to take revenge on them through Rambabu by hypnotizing him. First She targets Thulasi, Rambabu daily gives slow poisonous injections to her. On the other hand, Darkha also starts his revenge; he tries to kill his first enemy Sridhar by black magic, but unfortunately, Sridhar's daughter Archana (Baby Seeta) dies, where Darkha's realization starts towards humanity and goodness. Meanwhile, Thulasi's health becomes wrest day by day due to slow poison and the awakening of Kashmora. Darkha reaches his second enemy Abraka Dabra and as per the oath, he tries to torture him psychologically by killing his wife (Anitha) with black magic, but here a shocking incident Abraka Debra's wife father is none other than the priest who had thought Darkha regarding the life, he reverses the black magic and as a result, the priest dies. The death of the priest completely changes Darkha and he promises before his dead body that he will never ever harm any creature and he will live and die for humanity.

After that, he, unfortunately, falls into the clutches of Siddeshwari but manages to escape from her den. Darkha reaches Shadow and says that Siddeshwari is trying to take revenge on them and she is also trying to kill Thulasi by hypnotizing Rambabu. Shadow mimics Siddeshwari and gets to know that Rambabu has indeed injected Thulasi. Now Sridhar, Jayadev, Abraka Dabra, and Shadow bring back Rambabu to a normal condition by re-hypnotizing and they also try to catch Siddeshwari. Simultaneously, the one-year period completes and Kashmora attacks Thulasi. Darkha tries to stop Kashmora using his skills. In the meanwhile, Sridhar reaches Siddeshwari's location and enters into an argument and tells him regarding Darkha and his revenge. Finally, she gets her arrested. When Sridhar reaches home, he sees Darkha is drawing a Sri Chakram in Tulasi's room to protect her, but Sridhar misunderstands Darkha, stops him and he is beaten badly and thrown out of the house.

At the same time, Thulasi is missing; Sridhar comes to know of this and starts in search of Darkha. Thulasi has called to burial ground by Vishachi by black magic, who has arrived from Bista knowing the changing behavior of Darkha. Darkha also reaches there, both of them enter into an argument that Vishachi says he will kill Thulasi and Darkha says he will protect her in any circumstance. Finally, Darkha succeeds in stopping Kashmora by Atmarpanam, offering his soul to it and also kills Vishachi. At the same time, Sridhar comes there due to the misunderstanding and he shoots at Darkha with his pistol. Before dying Darkha says the fact that he has to die anyway for Kashmora and just remembers him in their heart that a black magic wizard died for humanity.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Chakravarthy. The lyrics were written by Veturi Sundararama Murthy. The music was released on Audio Company.^[5]

Others

• VCDs and DVDs on SHALIMAR Video Company, Hyderabad

References