“悲剧灵魂的孪生姊妹”是印度影圈对女演员米娜库玛莉(Meena Kumari, 1932-1972)的追觞诔辞。这部电影于她骤逝数月后上映，由才貌双全的她诠释艺伎主题，集青楼艳史、歌声俳笑、曼舞袅罗，可说是后来宝莱坞古典歌舞片经典舞蹈部分的始祖。

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