After Gowry's (Sandhya) wedding is interrupted by a giant snake
attacking several of those attending including the groom to be, and is
thus postponed indefinitely, her family calls priest and exorcist
Ramachand (Avinash) for help, who has the good sense to call his friend,
the psychiatrist and demon hunter Doctor Vijay (Vishnuvardhan) for
assistance. Ramachand and Doctor Vijay soon find out that everything
that's going wrong in Gowry's family has to do with a portrait of dancer
Nagavalli (Vimala Raman), who died almost 100 years ago, hanging in the
family home. It seems the portrait is haunted, and somebody in the family
is possessed by the dancing girl. The priest is quick to come to the
conclusion the possessed one must be Gowry's sister Saraswathi (Lakshmi
Gopalaswamy), basically because she has been a dancer herself, she has
brought the portrait into the family (she won it at a competition), and
she has gone mad after her fiancé was killed carrying the portrait.
Still, whatever exorcism Ramachand performs on her, she doesn't seem to
respond to his treatment. Doctor Vijay on the other hand is not so sure
about the girl's possession, and he instead looks into Nagavalli's past -
and soon he finds out she has been a dancing girl who was robbed by a king
100 years ago and before dying, she has blamed her fiancé for it and
somehow cursed him. Doing further research, Doc Vijay finds out the
fiancé is still alive (!) and has since become some kind of mystic. Vijay
pays the man a visit, and is almost killed by his superior magic and
martial arts skills. Doctor Vijay returns to Gowry's family's home,
cures Saraswathi's insanity, and soon proves that it's Gowry herself who
is possessed by Nagavalli. Gowry/Nagavalli is soon off to the place where
Nagavalli's fiancé is hiding out and sets the place on fire, killing her
fiancé in the process. It's then that Doctor Vijay is able to lift Gowry's possession and everything ends happily ... Rather silly
horror film that doesn't really make too much of an effort to tell a
coherent or believable story and throws plot elements into and out of the
movie rather at will, as if someone had forgotten to iron out a very wild
and inconsequent script. This though is also part of the film's charm, as
if it knows it's not great and makes no effort to be so, but in playing
with all sorts of horror mainstays it's at least good fun - at least some
of the time.
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