In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the village whose children have been taken is Mayapore.
Indiana Jones, Willie Scott, and Short Round reach Mayapore after escaping from Shanghai and traveling through India. The villagers explain that the children have disappeared, along with the sacred Sankara Stone that once protected the community. The villagers ask Indiana to help restore both the stone and their children.
Their investigation leads to Pankot Palace, where Indiana discovers that the Thuggee cult has enslaved the children and is using them in its search for the remaining Sankara Stones. The village therefore provides the emotional and narrative reason for the expedition.
Mayapore is sometimes confused with Pankot, the palace location, or with Shankara, the name associated with the sacred stones and the Hindu deity invoked in the story. Those are different places or terms within the film’s fictionalized adventure.