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| A stranger's childlike curiosity and world-view challenges people's long-held notions, making friends of some and foes of others |
The dark caves of Kali Pahari (Black Hills) is the lair of the dangerous Dracula, Nevla, who sleeps in a coffin by day, and transforms into a bat at night in hunt for human blood. He craves the supply of young women in order to spread his evil seed and the Thakur's wife, Lajjo becomes his latest victim. Lajjo is unable to conceive a child and enlists the help of her maid, Mahua who takes her to Nevla. He assures Lajjo that she will give birth but if it's a daughter, then she must surrender her to him, to which she agrees. Shortly thereafter, she gives birth to a daughter, Kamya, but refuses to surrender it. Mahua poisons her, abducts Kamya, and takes her to Nevla. Thakur Pratap Singh storms Nevla's cave and banishes Nevla to a coffin in a cavern, and rescues his daughter. Twenty years later, Kamya grows up to be a beautiful girl and she has her heart set on Kumar, her childhood friend. But Kumar is in love with a girl named Sapna and snubs Kamya. An enraged Kamya soon finds herself taken by the gang to the altar of Neola where he is resurrected and bites Kamya. She becomes hypnotized to serve Neola forever. Doing the wicked deeds of Nevla, Kamya, in the quest to make Kumar her own puts everyone she knows in grave danger. How much blood will be shed to quench the thirst of Nevla? How can the vicious Bat be sent to the depths of hell before the survivors blood drains out?
Thakur Ranvir Singh is a wealthy man living with his only daughter, Suman in Bombay. They are the direct descendants of Raja Hariman Singh of Bijapur. When Ranvir finds out that Suman is in love with a middle-classed male, Sanjay, he expresses displeasure and forbids her to ever see him again. When she persists, he tells her that there is a curse on the entire family, a curse that was inflicted 200 years ago by a blood-thirsty, flesh-eating demon named Samri. This curse affects only women in their family, who are hideously transformed after giving birth to their firstborn, and die a painful death. Treating this as mere superstitious, Suman and Sanjay, along with Sanjay's friend, Anand and his wife, Sapna, set out to Bijapur to unearth and put an end to this rumor. But soon mysterious and sinister events leads the group into resurrecting Samri. As Samri sets out on a killing spree, Suman and Sanjay must find a way to end him. Can the blood thirsty demon be stopped before its too late?
Satya (Vishal), who is a student studying in a city college, goes to the village, Erasakkanayanoor, 20 km from Theni ,to work as a research assistant to Professor Elanko (Raghuvaran). Their topic for research is ancient folklore of Tamil Nadu. As Satya is working on the project with Elanko, the professor's daughter (Mamta Mohandas) observes Satya from close quarters and starts liking him. She eventually falls in love with him. But Satya is not ready as he has a mission to accomplish. Whether he would succeed in his mission forms the rest of the story. It is a fast-paced movie based on a social issue. There is no villain. It is the situation that creates an undercurrent of tension in the story.
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