Bhayaanak is a Hindi horror film released in 1979, with Mithun Chakraborty in the lead role.

Promising his newly wed wife a quick reunion at Mangalpur, Mithun leaves for his destination.

She decides to continue her further journey by foot, but ends up at a large wilderness where a strange tanga is waiting for her.

His investigation ultimately leads him to the deranged family of Thakur, who with his brothers lives a secretive life.

Something is seriously different about this family that happens to have a plan of exploiting their victims for a common, but highly sinister cause.