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My friend will get angry. She wants to meet you.

Let's go, enough about you. You and your friends.

I don't want to hear anything you say. Come with me.

Mother stop. Mother, we can't leave.

We can't leave? Why?

Mother because my friend is here to take me away.

And she isn't alone.

With her there are other friends of mine too.

Friends?

Come here!

Sashi! Sashi!

This incident is of July 1985.

The Rawat family in order to sell their ancestral bungalow...

...in Baroda reached Ahmedabad from Los Angeles.

Father Dheeraj Rawat had to stay back in the city to finalize the deal...

...whereas mother Gayatri Rawat along with daughter Shashi left for Baroda.

But before this all three of them went to meet Dheeraj's grandfather...

...who since years was admitted into a mental asylum.

Greetings grandfather.

How are you?

Grandfather, she is Shashi, our daughter. And she's Gayatri.

Shashi dear, say greetings to grandfather.

In a small village close of Baroda was situated...

...the ancestral bungalow of Dheeraj's ancestors...

...which for the past 20 years was locked down.

Gayatri decided to renovate it in the absence of Dheeraj.

So that it would be easy to sell that bungalow...

...but they didn't know how dearly was this deal going to cost them.

Shashi? What are you doing? Again being naughty?

Sit quietly.

Sir, why did you stop?

We've crossed the road leading to the bungalow.

All right, let's go.

Wow!

Shashi dear, you can play later. Now come inside.

Come on. Let's go. You can play later, okay?

Now come on.

Dear, don't be scared. It's nothing, okay?

This bungalow is very old, right?

That's why things here are all broken and decaying.

But don't worry, okay? Shall we, shall we go in? Let's go.

Let's go dear.

What happened dear? Why did you stop?

Mother, why is he staring at me in this way?

I am feeling scared.

Very good.

Otherwise you can have this girl do all the mischief in the world...

...but she got scared on looking at a photograph.

Dear, he must be some relative of your father.

So don't worry, okay?

Okay yes, this is for you.

Take.

No, not here, open it inside. Come on, let's go.

Mother...

...someone is knocking, right?

Knock? No dear, it must be the noise of the breeze.

From olden doors and windows you get such sounds.

So don't worry. Okay, then you play. I'll be right back.

Mother! Mother where are you?

Mother! Mother!

-Mother, where are you mother? -Shashi?

-Mother, mother, mother! -What happened? Why did you shout?

Mother, that aunty… That aunty outside…

Aunty? All right, you wait. I'll go and check.

I am feeling something strange here. It feels...

...as if someone is keeping an eye on us.

I wish Dheeraj quickly finishes his work and comes here.

"Find us mother."

Who wrote it?

Shashi.

Shashi? Shashi, where are you? This girl I say!

Shashi?

Shashi?

Shashi?

Shashi?

-Mother? Mother, do you know whom I found? -Shashi...

...first you tell me what are you doing here?

-Mother, listen to me first… -Shashi, you can talk later.

You can talk later. First let's go.

-Mother, listen to me at least. -Shashi.

God promise mother, she's my new friend.

Okay, where did your new friend come from? She lives in the village?

She stays right here with us, here.

Dear, we're alone here and there's nobody else here.

Mother we're not alone.

Dear, keep quiet and drink the milk.

Shashi...

What are you whispering? Come on drink the milk.

Having stayed in America, Gayatri's thinking was very modern.

She had read a lot about child psychology...

...where a lot of cases come to the fore...

...where children in order to play, make fictitious or imaginary friends.

That's why there was nothing to worry about...

...that's what Gayatri thought whereas...

...the truth was something else.

Shashi wasn't suffering from a misconception but Gayatri was.

-Mister, is everything fresh? -Yes madam everything is fresh.

Do one thing.

Give me half a kilo of tomatoes and show me the cauliflower.

Here you go.

Dear, don't touch. Keep.

Mister, tell me one thing.

Do children from the village come to play in the bungalow?

Mister, I asked you something. Do children from the village come to the bungalow…

Since twenty years nobody either comes from or goes to that bungalow.

Why have you come?

Is there a phone somewhere close by?

Yes madam, the headman of this village has got a phone in his house.

All right, take this.

Dheeraj is right about these villagers.

Do you like sitting in big swings?

Shashi?

Shashi, what are you doing here?

Come on get down, get down. Come on, easy.

Dear, it's going to rain, right?

So you'll fall sick, okay? Let's go. Let's go in.

She looks exactly like Shashi.

The same face.

Shashi?

Dear, come with me.

Dear, what's all this?

Look dear, your mother is unable to understand anything.

That's why please tell me who are these friends of yours?

Mother, she isn't my friend.

I think she's my sister because she looks just like me.

No dear, it can't be possible.

You know you don't have any sister, right?

So then how can this be possible?

This will only be your misconception and nothing else.

-All right, let's go. -Mother wait.

Mother, it seems like she's getting angry.

Keep quiet! If you say anything more then nobody would be worse than me.

Oh God, it seems...

...like we've made a very big mistake by coming here.

But dear, you don't worry, okay?

Your mother is with you and nothing's going to happen to you.

You just stop talking about that friend of yours, okay?

Mother, don't you be scared at all.

She just wants to talk to you, she just wants to play with you.

Stop it! Where's your friend?

Why can't I see her?

Mother, you just don't try to see her.

She loves me as much as she loves you.

Look dear, if you ever say such a thing again...

...then your mother is never going to talk to you, understood?

Let's go.

Let's go.

What happened?

Sir, the car is not getting started.

Very strange!

Today every now and then some or the other problem is happening.

Sir, you wait in the guest house. I'll get the car repaired.

All right.

-Get it repaired fast, okay? -Okay sir.

My friend will get angry. She wants to meet you.

And she was saying...

...that if you don't talk to them...

...then they're going to take me away forever.

Didn't I tell you to be quiet? Just keep quiet!

I don't want to hear anything you say. Come with me.

Come. It's enough. You and your friends.

I don't want to hear anything you say. Come with me.

Mother stop. Mother we can't go.

We can't leave? Why?

Mother because my friend is here to take me away.

And she isn't alone.

With her there are other friends of mine too.

Friends?

Come here!

Shashi! Shashi?

Sha…Shashi?

Shashi? Where did Shashi go? Shashi?

Gayatri saw her daughter getting disappeared in front of her eyes.

She searched for her everywhere close by.

She even tried to ask for help here and there.

But unfortunately nothing happened.

Shashi?

Mother! Mother!

Mother! Mother!

Mother! Mother!

Shashi? Shashi where are you dear?

Can you hear mother's voice?

Shashi?

Shashi, where are you?

-Mother! -Shashi!

Mother!

Mother!

Stop!

You?

You're the same person who was walking around the bungalow, right?

What? What do you want?

It's you who's behind Shashi's disappearance, right?

Look, whatever I am asking, simply give me answers or else I'll…

I haven't done anything.

If you haven't done anything...

...then why do you keep roaming around the bungalow?

Come on answer me!

Because there's a curse on this bungalow.

Many children were being killed here.

That's why.

Children were being killed?

Who used to kill them?

The elder master.

Under whom women from our families used to work as a midwife.

Mother, mother!

This bungalow was locked for 20 years.

You've come and opened a can full of troubles.

Now bear it.

Don't say so. I haven't done anything.

I didn't even know...

...that something like this has even happened in this bungalow.

I just need my child back. Believe me!

Trust me, shut it down.

Go away from here.

Forever and ever.

I should go away?

No.

I won't go anywhere without my child.

I won't go anywhere. I won't go anywhere.

I can understand your pain.

I've been cursed by the evil deeds of my ancestors.

Six children.

All were born dead.

It's the curse of children killed in the bungalow.

Poor children, they suffered and died without their mother.

Mother, she isn't my friend.

I think she's my sister because she looks just like me.

Which means...

...the friends whom my daughter used to talk about...

...were those girls only?

Until their souls find peace...

...they won't let anyone live in peace.

The curse of the bungalow will continue.

Can you help me?

Look, in anger whatever I told you...

...whatever I said to you, whatever misconceptions were there.

For all that I apologize to you.

Give my child back to me, give my child back to me.

Give my child back to me.

I need my child back.

I need my daughter back.

Sir, it's an emergency. Can you drop me till Baroda, please?

Come sir.

Thank you.

Thank you sir. Let's go.

Now my body lies in this world.

My heart lies in this world.

Whatever you wanted to ask, you can ask.

My daughter, is my daughter there?

She's there.

But she's not alone, there are others too.

Where's she?

In this house.

Oh goddess...

...I can see how this sin used to be committed.

Mother! Mother!

My child! How's she? Is she all right?

Nothing has happened to her, right?

Go away from here.

This is my palace.

No girl would be able to go out alive from here!

Whoever will come here will face their end here!

What happened to you? You're all right, isn't it?

What happened?

Are you okay?

Midwife?

Gayatri...

...what's all this happening?

Dheeraj, in order to find Shashi…

What in order to find Shashi?

Gayatri, you've resorted to this black magic?

Do you know what big imposters these people are?

It's possible she might have done all this.

No Dheeraj, she isn't like that…

She's like that only. Hey you, get lost.

Go from here.

Dheeraj, Dheeraj what have you done?

This was the only way we'd to find Shashi and you drove her away?

Gayatri, what has happened to you?

Gayatri don't worry.

I'll set everything right.

Nothing's going to happen to our Shashi.

Dheeraj, Dheeraj trust me.

All these things are beyond our comprehension.

You don't know.

Ever since we've come to this bungalow...

...some or the other wrong thing has happened with us.

My child!

What do you want? What do you want from me?

Tell me! Please!

Please give my child back to me.

I need my daughter back. Give me my daughter back.

-Gayatri? -Give my daughter back to me!

Gayatri, calm down.

Give her back! Give my daughter back to me!

Gayatri, where did this drawing come from?

This drawing has been made by Shashi.

By Shashi?

What else did Shashi say? Tell me the entire thing.

Mother, she isn't my friend.

I think she's my sister because she looks just like me.

And she was saying that if you don't talk to them...

...then they're going to take me away for ever.

And she isn't alone.

With her there are other friends of mine too.

One thing is certain.

The kids who were killed by drowning into the well...

...our Shashi is with them only.

Yes, Dheeraj.

-Dheeraj? -Yes?

What are you thinking?

I know this place.

I don't exactly remember but...

...probably I was eight years old.

I had an elder sister, three years elder to me.

She used to make such drawings.

Now she's no more.

She used to talk about some well.

Gayatri, it's the same well which is right there in this bungalow...

...but I have never seen it.

Dheeraj, there are more of such paintings which Shashi made.

It could be that through them we get a clue...

...which might take us to Shashi, right?

Come.

Dheeraj, these are the same drawings.

Gayatri, these are the drawings of the different parts of our bungalow.

Probably through these drawings we'll get a way to reach Shashi.

You're right.

Dheeraj?

Dheeraj?

This way.

There's nothing here.

But Dheeraj, I didn't get one thing.

Why did the footprints end after coming here?

There's nothing inside it.

Gayatri there must be something.

There's something.

I'll check.

Where is this wind coming from?

Gayatri, I'll check at the back.

It looks like there's some way.

Dheeraj, where is this way leading to?

Let's see. Give.

Dheeraj, it's the same place...

...which I saw while I was unconscious.

Father!

-Shashi! -Shashi! Shashi!

-Shashi? Dear, father has come, Shashi! -Father!

-Shashi! -We'll bring you out dear.

Mother!

Dear, how are you? You're all right, isn't it?

Nothing has happened to you, right?

Do you know, how much your mother got scared?

Mother, father, my friends didn't hurt me.

They just want you to release them.

I am ashamed to call you grandfather.

I am ashamed to think that my name is associated with your name.

How could you do it?

What did you get by killing those innocent children?

Do you know Gayatri...

...I was always told that my sister died of Typhoid?

I didn't know that this dirty job was being done by my grandfather.

Grandfather...

...if you are getting us...

...then let me tell you one thing...

...that today there's no difference between boys and girls.

Grandfather, one who'd given birth to you...

...was also a woman.

And the one who'd given birth to your son...

...was also a woman.

Today whatever is your condition, you're responsible for that.

Whatever a person does, he pays for it.

My child.

Don't know about heaven or earth...

...but at a very tender age, Shashi understood...

...that you reap what you sow.

More than all the atrocities which the elder master did on people...

...his life become even worse than that.

He suffered in that very asylum and breathed his last.

You must be wondering as to where did I get this diary from.

The greatest lesson of this diary and my life has been taught by my mother.

Yes, Gayatri Dheeraj Rawat, my mother.

In life, as there's a huge difference in children and adults...

...in the same way after death too, the same difference...

...continues between children and adults.

Among many reasons, one reason is that the rituals associated...

...with the release of the spirits of dead children...

...they're different than the rituals made for adults.

For example, often children are not placed on a funeral pyre.

They're either buried or they're released into water.

Why is it done so? Why are these rituals different?

That's because the spirits of children are innocent...

...they wander away very soon.

Their consciousness can't develop or get matured enough.

As far as the question of female infanticide...

...or wandering spirits of children are concerned...

...it's very important to free them of their restrictions...

...because they've been killed without any reason.

They didn't die because of any incident.

They've died at the hands of their own family.

So their souls are very much sad and suffer a lot.

A strange side of this story had come to us few years back.

There was one man who'd killed his daughter...

...because he already had five daughters.

Since he had a sixth daughter, he killed her.

They again had another child and it was again a girl...

...but the girl's mother kept that baby away from her husband.

When she was five years old, the husband tried to kill her.

The baby girl told him why?

In my previous life you murdered me. Now why do you want to kill me again?

So that pain traversed from one life to the next, it didn't end.

There's so much pain.

Is there any solution to the wandering spirits of such children?

There's a solution.

According to proper rituals, through the right person...

...either through a priest or someone who is knowledgeable...

...if the rituals are performed through them, then they can be set free.

We don't have any purpose to increase of blind faith into any condition.

And we don't have any intention to hurt anyone's heart, place or religion.

Grandfather, she is Shashi, our daughter. And she's Gayatri.

Shashi dear, say greetings to grandfather.

In a small village close of Baroda was situated...

...the ancestral bungalow of Dheeraj's ancestors...

...which for the past 20 years was locked down.

Gayatri decided to renovate it in the absence of Dheeraj.

So that it would be easy to sell that bungalow...

...but they didn't know how dearly was this deal going to cost them.