Theater:Makdee (2002)

Makdee promoted as The Web Of The Witch in English, is a children’s film in Hindi directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, starring Shabana Azmi, Makrand Deshpande, Shweta Prasad, and Alaap Mazgaonkar.Life in Chunni’s village is all peace and quiet, and great fun. She fools the village with her impersonation of her twin sister, Munni; she has a great friend in Mugale Azam, who does her homework and she also has all the opportunity to vex her masterji (school teacher), Kallu (the village butcher) and her father. There is one small problem, though.In a mansion in the village, said to be haunted, lives the legend of a witch called Makdee (played by Shabana Azmi.)

The legend goes that whosoever wanders into the mansion, comes out as an animal! No one in the village dares to enter the mansion. Of course, there is the exception…In a small North Indian village, Legend has it that a 100 years-old witch lives in an abandoned mansion on the village outskirts, and any person who goes inside is turned into an animal. In the same village a clever, naughty girl named Chunni (Shweta Prasad) lives with her widowed father, grandmother and her identical twin Munni, who is just the exact opposite of Chunni in mannerisms. But one day, Chunni’s prank causes Munni enters the witch’s mansion and the witch turns her into a hen. Chunni strikes a deal with Makdee (Shabana Azmi) that she will present Makdee with 100 hens in exchange for Munni in human form. How she manages this task forms the crux of the rest of this fun-filled children’s movie.

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