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BOOK EXTRACT: Matinee Men: A Journey Through Bollywood
“Do you know that Mahal (1949) was born from a strange experience Baba had one night at Jeejeebhoy House?” Bharti ji informed me. I remembered Dadamoni telling me how one night, while staying at the guesthouse in Khandala, he was drawn outside by the sound of loud voices and ran into a young woman arguing. with his driver near the door where their car had stalled. Pointing out that the engine may have overheated, Dadamoni invited the lady inside to wait while the driver fixed the car. They were chatting amicably when the driver returned to inform them that he had not been able to detect the problem. Not wanting to spend the night there, the lady ventured out again despite Dadamoni’s request to stay behind.
After they left, he retired for the night, only to be awakened by frantic calls for help. He ran again to find the car still parked in front of the gate. She looked dark and empty, but the voice calling for help was coming from inside the car. Looking out the window, Dadamoni spotted a man with a slit throat.
He cried out one last time, then died before his eyes. As he was alone and there was no one nearby, Dadamoni cautiously stepped inside and spent a sleepless night waiting for the servant. As soon as the servant arrived early in the morning, Dadamoni fled with him, saying there was a dead man in a car outside. But there was no one there …
No car and no corpse.
Dadamoni later learned from the local inspector that fourteen years ago a young woman slit a man’s throat and left the car parked outside Jeejeebhoy House, tried to flee the crime scene. She died in an accident shortly after.
So, was it their ghosts that he encountered that night? No one can say for sure, but while searching on Google Jeejobhoy House, I came across an article about boys who had spent three nights there. At a party one night, one of them had come out and saw the garden swing swinging, although there was no one sitting on it and no breeze either. He called out to the others, and even while they had watched the swing continued to swing strangely, back and forth, until it stopped on its own, as if a person invisible had decided she had had enough and walked away into the dark. Later, inexplicable sounds of banging on doors and windows kept them awake all night long, making them wonder if any late-night guests wanted to join in the fun. However, for the remainder of their stay the boys are not disturbed.
The house, the swing and the mysterious lady come together in Mahal, the spooky thriller produced by Dadamoni and Savak B. Vacha for Bombay Talkies Studio.
Excerpt from “Matinee Men: A Journey Through Bollywood” by Roshmila Bhattacharya, courtesy Rupa Publications India. Price Rs 495.
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