''Aathma Bandhana'' is a 1992 Indian

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

-language

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with Transgressive art, transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include Mo ...

directed by Srikanth Nahata and produced by M. Rajagopal. The film stars

Shashikumar Shashi Kumar (born 2 December 1965) is an actor and politician from Karnataka. He works predominantly in Kannada films also appeared in Telugu and Tamil films. He acted with many leading ladies in 1990s and he acted as Rajnikanth's broth ...

Jayapradha Jaya Prada Nahata (born Lalitha Rani Rao; 3 April 1962) is an Indian actress and politician known for her works majorly in Telugu cinema and Hindi cinema as well as in Tamil films in late '70s, '80s and early '90s. Jayaprada is the recipient o ...

and Vaishnavi. The film is a revenge drama of a woman, played by Vaishnavi, who is killed by her in-laws mercilessly and her spirit entering into a doll. The doll takes up the revenge against each of them who was involved in her murder. The film was a remake of Tamil film ''

Vaa Arugil Vaa ''Vaa Arugil Vaa'' () is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language supernatural horror film starring Ramya Krishnan, Raja and Vaishnavi in lead roles. The film's concept was inspired from the American film '' Child's Play'' (1988). It was remade in Kannada i ...

'' (1991) which itself was loosely inspired from 1988 American film '' Child's Play''. The film's music was composed by

Rajan–Nagendra Rajan–Nagendra was an Indian musical duo who were prominent composers of film music in Kannada and Telugu cinema from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Rajan, along with his brother Nagendra, created a niche for themselves for nearly four dec ...

and cinematography is by D. V. Ramana.

Cast

* Vaishnavi *

Doddanna Doddanna is an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry who has acted in about 800 films. He started his career as a theatre actor. During this time, he entered the Kannada film industry as a character actor. Early life The youngest son in t ...

*Kaminidharan *

Thoogudeepa Srinivas Mysore Srinivas (17 April 1943 – 16 October 1995), known by his stage name Thoogudeepa Srinivas was an Indian actor who appeared in Kannada films and is remembered for his portrayal of negative-shaded characters. He is the father of actor, D ...

Vajramuni Sadananda Sagar (10 May 1944 – 5 January 2006), better known by his stage name Vajramuni, was an Indian actor who appeared in Kannada films. He portrayed negative characters during most of his career and was considered one of Kannada cinema's ...

Ramakrishna Ramakrishna (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886——— —), also called Ramakrishna Paramahansa (; ; ), born Ramakrishna Chattopadhay,M's original Bengali diary page 661, Saturday, 13 February 1886''More About Ramakrishna'' by Swami Prab ...

Mysore Lokesh Mysore Lokesh (29 April 1947 – 14 October 1994) was an Indian actor in the Kannada film industry. His films include ''Bandhana'' (1984), ''Gajapathi Garvabhanga'' (1989), and ''S. P. Sangliyana Part 2'' (1990), He did Comedy, comedic, Suppor ...

Shani Mahadevappa Shivaprakash, known by his screen name Shani Mahadevappa (19 March 1933 – 3 January 2021), was an Indian actor who worked in Kannada cinema. Having made his acting debut on stage in the 1950s, he became popular for his portrayal of deity Sha ...

Soundtrack

The music of the film was composed by

with lyrics by Chi. Udaya Shankar.Athma-Bandhana-songs-K0000317
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References

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* 1992 films 1990s Kannada-language films 1990s Indian films Indian horror films Kannada remakes of Tamil films Films scored by Rajan–Nagendra 1992 horror films Films about witchcraft Indian horror film remakes Indian remakes of American films {{1990s-horror-film-stub