(ululating)
If anyone finds out...
I'll chop you to pieces and dump you in the river.
Got it?
The snake charmers have given me some herbs.
They said it'll help.
Hush!
Women should have some patience.
They're performing the tale of Goddess Manasa.
Will you take me there?
Okay.
-It's quite late. -Yes.
Did you like the play?
Very much.
I loved it.
What happened?
Something bit me.
Oh no!
It's bleeding.
What bit you?
-Gosh! A snake! -Snake?
He survived because he got here at the right time.
Sister-in-law.
Mom shouldn't find out that we came to see the play.
Don't worry. I won't tell anyone.
Okay.
This will stay between us.
Animesh.
I'm in love with you.
What?
Have you lost it?
Get that thought out of your head.
Or I will leave the house.
Animesh!
I feel very lonely.
Without you...
I will die!
Then die.
Brother.
-I'm leaving. -Oh.
-Inform me once you reach Kolkata. -Yes.
Have a safe journey.
With your devotion, I will be considered a goddess.
Or else, my existence will be at stake.
May you get lost in the abyss!
As long as I'm alive...
I won't worship a snake lady. Never!
How dare you!
Remember.
I am the fury!
I am draped in blood!
I am the deadly serpent deity!
NAGPANCHAMI
Just because my brother rejected you
you killed our son?
-Uncle! -Calm down!
Stop it!
Calm down!
Let her go!
I can't believe it.
But...
-they all died of snake bite, right? -Yes.
How did she do it?
I had the same question.
Because snakes don't bite on command.
So what's going on?
Then I remembered something.
Snakes bites are usually found on the leg.
But in this case, it's on the hand.
The snake slithers up the victims body
yet no one screams for help or tries to escape?
That's strange.
It's only possible if the snake is physically made to bite someone.
I've searched all the rooms thoroughly.
There are no venomous snakes.
But I couldn't search one room.
The locked room.
Where Abhi was found...
The day Abha was bitten by a snake
I saw him near Abha's room.
He was looking for something.
He saw his mom's toe ring.
Next to her footsteps.
Who's there?
Who is it?
Abhi gave the toe ring to Durba for safekeeping.
Durba gave it to me.
Remember what I gave you?
Have you kept it safely?
Have you?
If the room's been locked for 200 years...
...how come the lock wasn't rusted?
Because...
...someone regularly opens the room.
I asked Durba to get a master key made.
When everyone was busy with Abhi's funeral
I opened the room.
This is Aunt's painting of Goddess Manasa.
But why is there a flute in Chand Sadagar's hand?
Did he play the flute?
Father?
Is he the Chand Sadagar of this family?
Take this, Officer.
Here.
This is the murder weapon.
Careful.
Aunt hid the snake inside the flute.
She just kept the ends shut.
-Huh? Snake in the flute? -Hold it.
The snake is inside.
Air passes through the holes.
That's how she keeps it alive.
When she wanted to kill someone...
she'd take the flute
near the victim's hand and the snake would strike.
She fell in love with the tunes of someone's flute.
So she used a flute to destroy his family.
What the hell!
Let go!
Get off me!
Shame on you!
How could you stoop so low?
Years have passed by, we are old now.
But you're just as cheap.
-Animesh! -What are you doing?
I'm dying, Animesh.
-I've been diagnosed with cancer. -Stop.
Just once.
Hug me once.
-No one has held me close. -Get off me!
-Please. -Stop!
Don't say a word more.
Get out of my room.
If you don't I will tell my brother.
Get out!
Leave!
Tell me something.
Aunt.
Why did you kill the priest?
You opened the cursed room?
I know you did.
I saw you.
Listen.
Don't invite trouble.
Your desire for revenge
might not harm Animesh but it will surely destroy you.
Don't do this to yourself.
You were hiding your cancer treatment papers in that room.
Cancer is a deadly disease.
How could you think of killing others?
Why should only I lose everything?
Why should I alone suffer?
Let Animesh feel the pain too!
So, before killing Taha and Abha
it was important to get rid of the priest.
When Abhi found out...
Say you didn't do it, Mom.
Are you listening, Mom?
Say you didn't do it.
You don't know how much I respect you.
Please stop what you're doing.
I won't tell anyone.
Or I'll have no choice but to tell everyone.
You raised him as your own child with so much love.
Why did you kill him?
How could you?
You were his mother.
I didn't want to kill him.
But he kept going to that room.
He left me no choice but to...
I didn't want to kill hm.
You are the real serpent.
And that room was full of your venom.
No, Uncle.
You can't put all the blame on Aunt.
She was never loved by her husband.
She spent her whole life waiting. She's bound to grow bitter.
And Aunt.
You can love someone...
but you can't force them to love you.
You're an independent woman.
You could've walked out of this marriage.
Where did she get the snake from?
Snake charmers?
They know it's illegal to supply snakes.
No.
-Not from the snake charmers. -Then?
I did some digging around.
Aunt teaches in a university.
Three common krait were stolen from the biology lab.
MURGUMA COLLEGE PURULIA
Oh.
She got something else from her university too.
Wait a minute.
Hold this.
Phosphorus.
It makes any surface glow.
Aunt used the myth of the idol lighting up with rage.
Oh my God!
But...
How did you find out?
The Goddess showed me.
I don't know...
if what I saw was real.
Or if it was an illusion.
I don't know if God truly exists.
But now I believe there is a higher power.
A power that protects us from evil.
You are our saviour, Behula.
(chanting hymns)
-Hello? -Hello.
I got your number from a friend.
Is this Rajnandini Mitra?
Yes, speaking.
I've heard you've solved a supernatural mystery.
I'm in a similar situation.
-What? -Will you please help me?