An NRI and his wife decide to stay in his ancestral home, paying no heed to the warnings about ghosts. Soon, inexplicable occurrences cause him to call a psychiatrist to help solve the mystery.
When U.S.-based Siddharth visits his Indian home town with his new wife, he insists they stay at the ancestral home, laughing off family members' warnings of ghostly goings-on in the mansion. But events soon make him reconsider his beliefs. As unexplained and terrifying occurrences arise, Siddharth calls on his doctor friend to help solve the mystery. What will be the outcome? Will Siddharth's friend be able to solve this riddle?—gavin ([email protected])
After the passing away of her parents, Radha gets adopted by Badrinarayan Chaturvedi. Her childhood was spent with Badrinarayan's nephew, Siddharth, and the family planned to get them married after they mature. When Siddharth grew up, he re-located to America. When the time came for him to return, Badrinarayan started to make preparations for the wedding, but ended up being surprised when Siddharth is accompanied by his wife, Avni. Due to his ancestry, Siddharth undergoes a formal coronation ceremony and moves into a huge manor. Avni starts exploring the manor and finds out that there is an entire floor that is under lock and key. She gets a key and enters the forbidden floor and unleashes a vengeful entity and a series of incidents. The family suspect Radha to be the perpetrator, prompting Siddharth to summon his seemingly bumbling Pyschiatric pal, Dr. Aditya Shrivastav, to shed some light into this seemingly occult mystery that will soon endanger everyone's lives.—rAjOo ([email protected])
Newly married Siddarth and Avni come to their village where is childhood friend Radha is upset about his marriage to Avni .They decide to live in their ancestral palace which is opposed by his uncle's Badri and Batuk as they believe the palace is haunted by spirit of a dancer Manjulika who was lusted by Siddarth's ancestor Raja Vibhuti Narayan.Raja had killed her lover Shashidar on Durgaasthmi and caged Manjulika to marry her where she hanged herself and cursed that her spirit would haunt the palace.Siddarth's whole family starts living with them in the palace for their safety after they hesitate to move to another place.They are warned not open the room where Manjulika died.Avni carelessly enters the room without anyone's consent and hell breaks out since that day and everyone lives in fear with strange things happening around.Siddarth feels all this to be superstitious and believes Radha to be behind it.He calls his friend psychiatrist Dr. Aditya Shrivastav to handle the situation he tries to handle the situation in a cheerful way but an intelligent Aditya is mistaken as a fool by the family.Aditya fearlessly roams the place at night to unfold the mystery leading to an unexpected twist.—[email protected]
The film revolves around a small village. Badri, (Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family whose ancestral palace is believed to be haunted by a ghost of Manjulika, a Bengali dancer. One day, Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother, return to their native village from America and decide to stay for a month in their ancestral palace. Here, Siddharth is crowned as the king, his right to the throne.
Events take a twist when Avni opens a locked forbidden room that contains the ghost of Manjulika with the help of Nandini (Tareena Patel) who is Siddharth's cousin. Unnatural events start taking place inside the palace. Avni ends up falling in love with the place and begins to learn about Manjulika and her tragic story. Badri and Batuk Shankar (Paresh Rawal) try to ward off the evil eye with the help of a priest and philosopher Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti (Vikram Gokhale), but unfortunately the priest has gone to London and is unsure when he might be back. They try to force back the so called 'evil ghost' of Manjulika to her room with the help of a local priest Chhote Pandit (Rajpal Yadav) but their attempt fails and the priest after seeing the moving shadow of Manjulika coming towards him, ends up being a mad man.
Siddharth starts to suspect Radha (Ameesha Patel) for all the weird things going around. He thinks that she has gone mad, since he was supposed to marry her, but instead ended up marrying Avni. So, he calls his friend/psychiatrist Dr. Aditya Shrivastav (Akshay Kumar) to try to figure out what the problem is with Radha. Later, it is discovered that Radha is actually Badri's adopted daughter and that he brought her up as if she were his own.
Once Aditya reaches the palace things start to become comical as no one in the palace likes him and thinks he is fool due to the way he dresses and acts. Aditya starts to use modern analytical techniques to find out the reason behind the so-called ghost problem. He eventually realizes that Radha is not at fault, and that there was someone else behind it all. One night, while patrolling the palace, he also encounters the so-called Manjulika and dares her to strike. The ghost, in return vows to take her revenge on the auspicious day of Durgashtami.
During the engagement of Nandini with Sharad Pradhan (Vineeth), Avni ends up spilling food on Sharad, and takes him away to get him cleaned. Aditya than notices that Avni is missing and so he asks Siddharth to help him find her. When they do, they see that there is a struggle between Avni and Sharad, and they eventually end up breaking the struggle and Siddharth begins to hit Sharad thinking that he was going to violate Avni. But, Aditya tells him that she is actually the culprit and that she has Dissociative Identity Disorder, a disease that affects the person's identity. To make sure that things work out the way they are supposed to he must bring out Manjulika's identity. In order to support his argument, Aditya reveals that he has visited Avni's hometown to gather information about her childhood and he has factual evidence. He then asks the half-convinced Siddtharth to provoke Avni in order to make her realize that something is wrong. When Siddharth does this, Avni shows personality of Manjulika before coming to her usual self, much to the concern of Siddharth, who asks Aditya to do anything to save Avni.
They then see her as Manjulika dancing to the tunes she had been dancing to with her love Shashidhar before the king killed him. Through this the sad love story of the old king Vibhuti Narayan, who loved a dancer, Manjulika, who, in turn, loved Shashidhar (the dancer in the same court) is revealed. Avni, while possessed by Manjulika's personality, imagined herself and Sharad, (whom she thinks is Shashidhar), dancing in the court of the king. This triggered Avni's disorder; she assumes the identity of Manjulika and tries to kill her own husband Siddharth, as she sees him as Vibhuti Narayan who killed Manjulika's lover and later locked her up in her room where she committed suicide.
In order to cure Avni of her illness, Aditya triggers Manjulika's personality and makes her promise to leave if Manjulika gets the opportunity to kill the king and have her revenge. Meanwhile the priest Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti (who happens to be Aditya's guide) also arrives to visit Siddharth. With his help, during the ritual of Durgashtami, Manjulika is tricked and slays a dummy of Siddharth thinking she was killing the king. After the killing, Manjulika's personality leaves Avni forever. Aditya hypnotizes the unconscious Avni and tells her that everything is fine and that she will continue her life as a same, happy and peaceful person. Everything ends well and Aditya tells Radha that he will send his parents if she is interested in marrying him.
