A Movie Series Including The Stranglers of Bombay?

Does The Strangers of Bombay happen in the same fictional univrese as any other movies? Possibly it sort of does.

Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Death, among other things is worshipped by many Hindu cults, But Kali's most famous group of worshippers were the Thugs, members of the Thuggee cult who allegedly murdered travelers in India.

In the 1830s, William Henry Sleeman was in charage of detecting and destroying the Thuggee cult. Many Thugs were areested, convicted, and executed or imprisoned. Some modern historians claim that the Thuggee cult was imaginary and the Thugs were innocent.

The Thugs lasted much longer in populaar cutlure than in real history.

The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) and The Deceivers (1988) are films depicting the Britsh supression of the Thugs in the early 19th century vaguely similar to the historical events.

But the Thugs later revived according to other movies. In Gunga Din (1939), set in the 1890s, the revived Thugs form an army and hope to defeat the British and take over India, but they are defeated.

In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), set in the 1930s, the Thugs have revived, taken over the Kingdom of Pankot in India, and plot to take over all India and maybe the whole world and abolish all other religions. It is also mentioned that the Thugs were active at Pankot during the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58.

In Help! (1965), set in the 1960s, the Beatles get involved with a dangerous eastern cult similar to the Thugs.

So there are a number of other movies which some fans might want to think happened in the same ficitonal universe as The Stranglers of Bombay (1959).