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Shaitani Dracula (2006)
Cast: Harinam Singh as Dracula and Shweta as Sheetal
Written, Produced and Directed by: Harinam Singh
Synopsis: Sensational follow up his classic Khooni Dracula.
After the rip-roaring success of his previous Dracula movie Khooni Dracula, Harinam Singh sets out again in a similar vein with equally spectacular results, taking Bram Stoker’s novel to another realm. A man of prodigious talent and blessed with enviable handsomeness, Harinam Singh stars as Dracula and doubles as the writer, director, and producer of this little gem.
The dashing Singh takes on the title role of the Shaitani Dracula, who appears to live in the woods in his mansion with his two wives from whom he expects a horde of little Draculas. He is a power lusting evil madman, prone to laughing maniacally in his fits of delusion. Dracula dreams of a world overrun by Draculas, and it is up to him to make this happen. For this specific purpose, he has recruited several disciples known as Lady Draculas though he also has the odd male helper.
His wives have the specific duty of discovering more women, sucking their blood and thus turning them into an army of Lady Draculas. His male followers follow suit with all men, turning the world slowly but surely into one super race of Draculas with the Shaitani Dracula as their supreme leader.
In the opening scenes, Dracula is busy recruiting his Lady Draculas. Then a golden opportunity falls into his lap as a group of students. Their teachers leave for a college trip and decide very unwisely to camp out in Dracula territory.
Thrilled at the delicious prospect of all the potential victims/recruits, a very excited Dracula informs his Team Dracula of the impending feast, and they all have an extended rapturous laughing session in celebration. Soon, the students arrive and make themselves at home, but little do they know that the whole area is deeply infested with Lady Draculas, who have polystyrene angel wings that help them stalk and giggle at their victims in the most brazen manner. Giggles that kill!
One of the feistier students on the trip against her elder brothers’ specific instructions is the scantily clad Sheetal, who it soon transpires Dracula has a severe crush. He slowly uses his considerable telepathic powers to try to draw Sheetal closer to him so he can make her Mrs Dracula and announces to his brides that he has been waiting for Sheetal for 600 years. There is considerable friction among the brides who are not too thrilled at the idea of playing second fiddle to Sheetal. However, Dracula is adamant and a little peeved that the wives have failed to produce the thousands of baby Draculas he demanded. They reach a compromise grudgingly and accept living as his concubines even if his mind is set on having Sheetal as his ultimate wife.
There follows much drama, thunder and lightning and a whole lot of masked Lady Draculas on the prowl, and their first victim is the old teacher who three or four Lady Draculas accost. Still, luckily, he appears to escape their rubbery clutches. Meanwhile, Dracula telepathically continues to woo Sheetal and often inserts his joke vampire teeth in his mouth for a better telekinetic effect. Once in a while, he seems to leave his mansion and stalk Sheetal, but time and again, she escapes his clutches and grows strangely resistant to his telepathic pulling powers.
Dracula grows frustrated as Sheetal eludes him time and again and resorts to taking extreme measures to snag the bride he yearns for. Meanwhile, his wives grow impatient and nag him incessantly to forget about Sheetal and that his obsession will bring about his downfall, but Dracula will have none of it. It is Sheetal he wants and now. He tells his wives to go and take cold showers and cool down; still, they continue to henpeck him.
Finally, we learn that Sheetal, under the guise of a hot chick wearing a red latex bikini top and matching hot pants, is a very devout and pious girl. She calls upon her Protector to provide her with the courage and determination that it will take to take down Dracula and his devoted and disgruntled wives. A classic confrontation awaits; the ultimate battle for survival. Can Sheetal stop Dracula and his army of disciples from turning the entire population of the world into the living dead as they plan?
Another majestic slice of cinematic awfulness served up with such aplomb that you have to salute Harinam Singh and herald him as the unsurpassed King of Shit of the modern era. The film surpasses all previous horrors and sets a new benchmark of atrociousness for others to follow. Harinam Singh must now be recognized and honoured as the latest torchbearer of cinematic crap of a level that transcends awfulness.
In Shweta, Singh introduces a highly talented star in the making, even if her talent is perhaps even smaller quotient than her outfits. However, she makes an effective adversary for Dracula and shines in the dramatic and terrifying climax. Maybe the film’s best aspect is that recognizing a good thing, Harinam ends with a movie with a promise of more Dracula mayhem in times to come, which can only be joyous news for the purveyors of such cinematic ghastliness. Essential viewing. Utterly dreadful, but in the right frame of mind, delightfully so.
To date, the most plausible explanation for the marvellous guest appearance by the uncredited Goose appears to have been Harinam Singh seizing an artistic opportunity by the neck and probably eating it for dinner that night and erasing it in the form of a perfectly formed bowel movement the following day. A bit like his Shaitani Dracula, a bowel movement of a movie.
Another aspect of this modern rendition of the Dracula tale was that despite Dracula himself going into extended soliloquies about his credentials as the “son of Satan, the prince of darkness, the almighty evil devil spawn”, it doesn’t appear to impress any of the new generations at all. His wives are constantly nagging him and show little respect to the Lord of Darkness and all Evil.
Then occasionally, when he goes out to stalk his victims, he finds a young woman and informs her of his almighty evil powers and that she should dare not look into his eyes; the eyes of death as he claims them to be. The young woman seems least convinced of any of Dracula’s claims and even less afraid that he might cause the slightest harm asking him bluntly what he is doing out there in the middle of the night. The days when somebody barely whispered the name Dracula was out of fear have long since evaporated.
Here Dracula is spoken to as though he was a mere cockroach to be squashed at the first opportunity. None of that silver bullets stuff required here, not even a Tantrik or a holy Trishul (trident), just a cheap plastic cross that causes a massive clunk upon hitting human flesh, appears to be enough to do the trick. However, Dracula does possess some pretty nifty moves displaying particular skill while attempting to subdue Sheetal by pummelling her with his elbow.
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