''Amavas Ki Raat'' (English: New moon night) is a 1990

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directed by

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. It stars

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and

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. The plot focuses on occult practices and sorcery.

Plot

A pregnant lady discarded by society calls to her sister Nanda for help. Nanda is the wife of a powerful tantric magician. She could not save her sister but used her own ''

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'' to give birth to her dead sister's child. However, her husband warns her that this child born at Amavas Ki Raat (new moon) may be a demon.

Cast

as DIG Vinod Saxena *

as Inspector Kaushik Sharma *

as Seema Saxena *

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as Asha Saxena *

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as Sunil Saxena *

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as The Demon *

as Plumber Dada * Sunil Dhawan as Anjali's father * Huma Khan as Pinky * Rahul singh as Munna * Kamna as Anjali

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* 1990 films 1990s Hindi-language films 1990s Indian films Indian horror films 1990 horror films Hindi-language horror films 1990 direct-to-video films Indian direct-to-video films {{1990s-horror-film-stub