Sacred Evil A True Story(2006)
Sacred Evil (Hindi: Gehra Paani) is a 2006 Indian supernatural drama film directed by Abhigyan Jha and Abhiyan Rajhans. The film stars Sarika as Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, alongside Lynsey Pow and Frédéric Andrau. It is based on Chakraverti's book Sacred Evil: Encounters With the Unknown, which documents her real-life cases as a Wiccan priestess. The story follows three women connected by a twenty-year-old secret: a haunted nun, a Wiccan healer, and a girl searching for her mother. Set in Calcutta, the film explores the conflict between church traditions and Wiccan rituals. Critics compared its tone to the work of Satyajit Ray. The film received mixed reviews and failed commercially in India, partly due to poor marketing and audience confusion about its genre. It has not been released in Europe, the USA, or Canada.
Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 1 January 2006
- Director
- Abhigyan Jha
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 1h 49m 0
Storyline
A Wiccan priestess named Ipsita is called to a Calcutta convent to heal a nun named Martha. Martha is haunted by a specter that threatens her sanity. As Ipsita uses ancient rituals to uncover Martha's past, she discovers a connection to a young woman named Claudia, who is slowly losing her identity to her dead mother.
“Three women. One secret. Twenty years.”
Film Details
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Trivia
- The film was originally titled 'Sacred Evil: A True Story' but is sometimes listed simply as 'Sacred Evil'.
- Director Abhiyan Rajhans also wrote the film's story, screenplay, and dialogue.
- The movie was shot on location in Nepal, not in India.
- It is one of the few Hindi horror films from the mid-2000s to center on a witch as a healer, not just a villain.
- The film had a very limited theatrical release and is now primarily known through home video formats.
- Actress Shweta Menon, known for Malayalam and Tamil films, played a lead role in this Hindi project.
- The soundtrack featured music by multiple composers, including Bappi Lahiri and Anand Raj Anand.