Ahalya (2015 film)

Ahalya is a 2015 Indian mystery thriller short film directed by Sujoy Ghosh with Radhika Apte, Soumitra Chatterjee and Tota Roy Chowdhury playing the lead roles.

A young police officer, Indra Sen arrives at the home of famous ageing artist, Goutam Sadhu, to investigate the case of a missing man named Arjun.

Goutam tells Indra that the stone in the glass case has magical qualities and that anybody who touches it turns into whosoever he or she wishes.

In the original tale the young and beautiful Ahalya is seduced by Indra (the king of the gods), and is cursed by much older husband sage Gautama to turn into a stone.

But in the retelling of the story in the film, the punishment is visited on the character based on Indra alone, while the woman is shown to be an accomplice in the seduction game.