Sunghursh
Sunghursh is a 1968 Indian Hindi film directed and produced by Harnam Singh Rawail. It is based on a short story Layli Asmaner Ayna in Bengali language by Jnanpith Awardwinning writer Mahasweta Devi, which presents a fictionalised account of vendetta within a thuggee cult in the holy Indian town of Varanasi. The film stars Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Sanjeev Kumar, Balraj Sahni, Jayant, Deven Verma, Durga Khote and Iftekhar.
Bhavani Prasad Jayant is a powerful Shakta priest at Kashi. Prasad, a devotee of the black goddess Kali and a thuggee, religiously follows a practice to murder wealthy travelers who stay in his pilgrim guesthouse and offers them as a sacrifice to Kali. Prasads son Shankar Iftekhar does not agree to such practices, opposes his father and decides to leave the village with his wife and their three children Kundan Dilip Dhavan, Yashoda and Gopal. Prasad forcibly takes Kundan with him to follow in his footsteps and forbids him from seeing the rest of the family.Young Kundan is now being raised by his grandfather Prasad who desires to have Kundan as his successor, head of a temple and pilgrim guesthouse on the bank of the Ganges river. Prasad mysteriously kills his son and puts blame on his enemy and nephew, Naubatlal D. K. Sapru. Prasad had earlier killed Naubatlals father. When Naubatlal learns the truth, he decides to take revenge but Prasad kills Naubatlal before he could so anything. Naubatlals family decides to leave the village and settle down Calcutta where his two young sons, Dwarka Sanjeev Kumar and Ganeshi Prasad Balraj Sahni, work as merchants. They learn about their fathers death from their mother Mumtaz Begum and swear to avenge their fathers death by killing Prasad and his grandson Kundan Dilip Kumar. ........
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