Orphaned heiress Anita's (Amita Nangia) uncle (Vijay Arora) generously decides to buy her a mansion (requiring her to sign a blank check). He goes down to the countryside to check it out (of course, he's unaware that both the caretaker and the prologue couple whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere have been killed by supernatural forces in and around the property). All is not well at home either as Anita is forcibly forbidden to see her photographer lover Sunil (Deepak Parashar) so that her aunt's (Neelam Mehra) sleazy brother Vikram (Tej Sapru) can marry Anita for her money. When the aunt's admonishments and Vikram's paid thugs fail to keep the lovers apart, Anita is spirited away to the country house (with Sunil's comic relief sidekick Manghu [Satish Shah, VEERANA] in tow along with some creature fodder best friends). As if Vikram's stalker-ish antics and threats of rape were not enough for Anita to put up with, monstrous visions and dead bodies start piling up but everyone is too focused on keeping Anita and Sunil apart to wonder what's making growling noises in the cellar and heed the crazy old man's warnings that the mansion is a house of death. Whereas Hindu religious symbols were use to ward off the monster of VEERANA, the mystics of PURANI HAVELI wield crucifixes against the monster (the church finale brings to mind Hammer's TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA) which is perhaps not so surprising as the film's haunted mansion location is not so much an Indian palace as an Orientalist-styled colonial manor glutted with menacing mounted animal heads, stuffed wild animals, and suits of armor (and there is a cemetery full of crosses etched with European names). While the the monster is scarier than usual (although he is not always so atmospherically lit, there are some striking images of the creature's appearances along with a creepy mobile suite of armor) and the horror scenes are pretty intense for a Ramsay film, the interminable musical sequences and an utterly superfluous comic relief subplot involving Manghu's resemblance to a local bandit disrupt the pacing more than usual. There are also some lifts from The film's extended finale, however, is quite a thrilling and worthy series of setpieces that almost seems to have stumbled in from another film. If you can make through the musical numbers and bandit subplot scenes, you are in for an entertaining flick.