The story begins again after 12 years as Surya (Sai Dharam Tej), his mother and friend (Abhinav Gomatam) are visiting Rudravanam. It is the birthplace of Surya’s mother and she is visiting it after 15 years on the occasion of village deity Modamamba’s annual celebration.
Village priest (Saichand), sarpanch Harishchandra Prasad (Rajiv Kanakala), rich man Sunil and others are the important people in the village. As Savitri (Anchor Shyamala) hosts Surya and family, they attend the festivities and rekindle old relationships. Surya takes interest in Nandini (Samyuktha), the village headman’s daughter.
On the day of the main puja events, a missing villager comes in from the forest in a possessed state and dies inside the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. The priest promptly calls for a detailed ritual, closing the borders of the village completely for eight days. Nandini’s friend Sudha (Sonia Singh) decides to utilise the situation to run away with her beloved. She breaks the closed borders to reach her lover at the railway station, only to witness her lover dying after being hit by a train. Surya, an outsider, who was allowed to leave the village had to return to the village to save Nandini who is suffering from an attack of epilepsy. Surya identifies a pattern in the deaths and finds that the next death would be of Nandini. He risks his life to find the actual culprit, prevent further deaths and save Nandini. Will Surya succeed in accomplishing his task? Why Nandini is targeted by this supernatural force? Who is behind all these deaths?
The film perfectly creates the ambience at the very beginning and keeps on adding layers as the story progresses. After a shocking interval, the second half slightly drops in pace as the various pieces of the jigsaw are put together, to finally pick pace in the pre climax sequence. The climax is impressive, though it clearly wants to shock and awe. In fact, that also led to a few people walking out of the theatre but this is an ending that is contrary to popular, established writing patterns.
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