沙林为印度皇帝之子，他喜欢上高级妓女安卡丽，皇帝不满意，决定拆散他们，沙林反抗到底，最后与父开战而战败，皇帝判决他死刑，但容许她们死前在一起，安卡丽为救沙林一命，决定离开她的挚爱。

The movie was a groundbreaking supernatural suspense thriller and one of the earliest known films dealing with reincarnation. Mahal became one of the biggest box office hits of 1949 in India [3] and paved way for Indian gothic fiction