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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Mahakaal<br />
| image = Mahakaal (1994) poster.jpg<br />
| caption = Theatrical release poster<br />
| director = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Shyam Ramsay]]<br />
* [[Tulsi Ramsay]]<br />
}}<br />
| producer = {{Plainlist|<br />
* Gangu Ramsay<br />
* Chander Ramsay<br />
}}<br />
| writer = Y.V. Tyagi<br />
| starring = {{Plainlist|<br />
* Karan Shah<br />
* [[Archana Puran Singh]]<br />
* [[Reema Lagoo]]<br />
* [[Johnny Lever]]<br />
* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]]<br />
}}<br />
| music = [[Anand–Milind]]<br />
| cinematography = Gangu Ramsay<br />
| editing = {{Plainlist|<br />
* Vikas Daripkar<br />
* Shyam Gupte<br />
}}<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1994|2|11}}<br />
| runtime = 131 minutes<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/mahakaal-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmde4nzi|title=Mahakaal|website=[[British Board of Film Classification]]}}</ref><br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget = {{INR}}0.4 crore<ref name=BO>{{cite web|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=3176|title=Mahakaal - Movie|website=[[Box Office India]]}}</ref><br />
| gross = {{INR}}1.88 crore<ref name=BO/><br />
}}<br />
'''''Mahakaal''''', also known as '''''Mahakaal: The Monster''''', is a 1994 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[horror film]] directed by [[Shyam Ramsay]] and [[Tulsi Ramsay]], known as the [[Ramsay Brothers]]. The film borrows numerous elements from the 1984 American film ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' and [[A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)|its sequels]], including its antagonist, Shakaal—who, like ''Elm Street''{{'}}s [[Freddy Krueger]], is a razor-gloved killer who can murder people through their dreams.<br />
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Blending elements of [[mysticism]], [[black magic]] and [[slapstick comedy]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-events/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-mahakaal|title=A Nightmare on Elm Street & Mahakaal|website=[[Music Box Theatre]]}}</ref> ''Mahakaal'' is the second [[Bollywood]] film derived from ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'', following 1989's ''[[Khooni Murda]]'', which was produced by [[Mohan Bhakri]].<ref name="Tombs 1998">{{cite book|last=Tombs|first=Pete|author-link=Pete Tombs|date=1998|title=Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2jpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|publisher=[[St. Martin's Griffin]]|isbn=978-0312187484}}</ref><ref name="Glaser 2022">{{cite book|last=Glaser|first=Ed|date=2022|title=How the World Remade Hollywood: Global Interpretations of 65 Iconic Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otljEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA154|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|page=154|isbn=978-1476684031}}</ref> ''Mahakaal'' was also the last horror film produced by Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay.<ref name="Tombs 1998" /> It was a moderate commercial success upon its theatrical release on 11 February 1994.<ref name=BO/><br />
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==Plot==<br />
A college student, Seema, has a nightmare that a horrible looking man wearing steel claw gloves and attacks her. She wakes up to find that she has real wounds on her arm. Later her friend Anita too has the same nightmare and finds real wounds on her arm.<br />
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Anita tells her parents about her nightmare. Her father, who is a policeman, refuses to believe it. Later, Seema is attacked again in her dream and she dies of the wounds. Her boyfriend is put in police lockup where he sees the horrible man who makes snakes appear by magic. The boyfriend dies of snake-bite. Later, Anita and her mother catch Anita's father taking out a metal clawed glove from his drawer, so he is forced to reveal the secret that an evil magician Shakaal had been kidnapping children and sacrificing them to increase his evil powers.<br />
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Seven years ago, Shakaal had killed Anita's sister too. Finally, Shakaal kidnaps Anita. As her father knows Shakaal's place, he arrives with Anita's boyfriend and they manage to kill him and save Anita.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mahakaal - Movie - Box Office India|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=3176|access-date=20 December 2021|website=boxofficeindia.com}}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* Karan Shah as Prakash<br />
* [[Archana Puran Singh]] as Anita<br />
* [[Reema Lagoo]] as Anita's mother<br />
* [[Johnny Lever]] as Canteen & Hotel Manager<br />
* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]] as Anita's father<br />
* Mahaveer Bhullar as Shakaal <br />
* [[Dinesh Kaushik]] as Randheer<br />
* [[Kunika]] as Seema<br />
* [[Mayur Verma]] as Param<br />
* Baby Swetha as Mohini (Anita's Sister)<br />
* Sunil Dhawan as College Principal<br />
* Asha Patel as Cabaret Dancer<br />
* [[Narender Nath]] as Pujari<br />
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==Soundtrack==<br />
{{Tracklist<br />
| extra_column = Singer(s)<br />
| title1 = Chal Chal Meri Jaan Chal Zara<br />
| extra1 = [[Udit Narayan]], [[Sadhna Sargam]], [[Sudesh Bhosle]]<br />
| length1 =<br />
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| title2 = Main Khush Naseeb<br />
| extra2 = [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Anuradha Paudwal]]<br />
| length2 =<br />
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| title3 = Janejaan Bahon Mein Aaja<br />
| extra3 = [[Sapna Mukherjee]]<br />
| length3 =<br />
}}<br />
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==Reception==<br />
===Box office===<br />
''Mahakaal'' was a moderate commercial success especially in small cities,towns and villages but not in Big cities.<ref name="Tombs 1998" /><ref name="Glaser 2022" /> Its lackluster box office performance has been attributed to an oversaturation of horror films in the Indian market by the end of the 1980s,<ref name="Tombs 1998" /><ref name="Glaser 2022" /> as well as to the [[Television in India#History|economic and social reforms]] that had expanded the number of television channels available in India, allowing viewers the ability to watch such films as the American original, ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' at home.<ref name="Glaser 2022" /><br />
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===Critical response===<br />
In 1997, British author [[Pete Tombs]] wrote that ''Mahakaal'' "was well made, very atmospheric and took few liberties with the original story."<ref name="Tombs 1998" /><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0260155|title=Mahakaal}}<br />
* [http://10kbullets.com/reviews/b/bollywood-horror-collection-volume-3-mahakaal-tahkhana/ Mahakaal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924210654/http://10kbullets.com/reviews/b/bollywood-horror-collection-volume-3-mahakaal-tahkhana/ |date=24 September 2009 }}<br />
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