A Ghost Crime thriller maybe and it's very well made as it's directed by the legendary Raj Khosla. Very enjoyable
and with quite a few scenes directly resembling the story in the 1949 classic Mahal, the outside look of the House
a copy of the one in Mahal. But, maybe this is a coincidence and the ghost story of a wandering female soul is an
old theme in indian film and older than even Mahal in 1949 ?
This was also the first time i've seen ice skating in a Bollywood film, on the natural ice rink in Shimla up in the north
and on a high altitude. Cool, i want to skate there too and this city of Shimla in the state of Himachal Pradesh really
trigger my vacation tourist yearnings and why use the alps (in later films) when India has got these magic places ?

Manoj Kumar and Sadhana

It was a dark and stormy night .... and as Snoopy knows writing on his novel on the top of his doghouse in the
comic Peanuts or we know, after watching the spooky Bollywood noir Mahal, that means ectoplasmic things
will happen. And it does, to doctor Anand (Manoj Kumar) when he's out on the countryside in his car after visiting
a patient. A woman in white stands in front of his car and he gives her a ride. He can't se a thing through the flooded
windshield but she knows the way and leads him to a graveyard where she disappears in the mist .... just as any
normal slightly gothic mysterious woman you give a ride on a dark and stormy night.

Anand is about to inherit a big fortune, he has a good job at the clinic under Dr. S. R. Singh (K.N. Singh, often
playing a man of authority as a clinic chief or an police superior) and he has got a gorgeous girlfriend in the shape of
Seema (played by Helen Richardson, nowadays Helen Khan, the actress who appeared in 100's of films and can
be seen later in favourite films as Sholay and Don). So, is everything copacetic for Dr. Anand then ?
No. There's a small condition in the will - that he has to be mentally sound to inherit the money (due to cases of
mental illness in the family history) otherwise the money will go the next in kin, his brother Ramesh (Prem Chopra).

Bad things are about to happen. Seema is murdered by cyanide from an unknown assailant and when the night is
dark and stormy .... again .... Dr. Anand gets a sick call from a spooky old house where an old woman cries at the
side of a bed with a dead woman in it, The Woman in White from earlier. He's too late.
The House crackles with ectoplasm and outside 2 policemen tells him that this scene repeats itself every dark and
stormy night and that the locals avoid the house, the house which is empty and abandoned since a long time.

How not to handle a woman

Dr. S.R. Singh want to marry his daughter and assistant at the clinic Lata (Parveen Chaudhary) to Anand, but he's
already up for a marriage, through his mother, to another woman, Sandhya (also played by Sadhana).
Sandhya that looks exactly as the ghost woman in white and Anand flips out and will not give any love to her.
Is Sandhya the same woman as the apparition in white ? Is there spookery going on and who murdered Seema ?
Actually, no one seems to care that much about the murder of the poor Seema (Helen Richardson)

Helen as Kamini in cult classic Don 14 years later

On the verge of a nervous breakdown Dr. S. R. Singh sends Anand, his mother, servant and Lata to his cottage in
the winter resort town of Shimla. Will the woman in white follow him there ? Will there be a huge crowd gathered
at the side of the Shimla ice skating rink watching the film team ?

4:3 fullscreen black & white hindi with english subs, song/dance numbers without subs, a small red Ultra logo can
be seen in the upper left corner, 2 hours and 22 minutes