Bhooth Bangla

In the town of Mangalpur, in pouring rain a group of stranded travelers returning from a wedding waiting for a delayed train gather around a bonfire on a deserted railway platform. There, they ask an old mystic they call as Baba Ji who had lit the bonfire, the truth behind an old rumour about no marriages occurring in Mangalpur, and he begins narrating the terrifying legend that once cursed the region — the tale of Vadhusur, a demonic immortal who abducts and kills newly wed brides on their wedding night.

Years earlier, a wedding party travelling to catch their flights home from Lucknow is forced to reroute through Mangalpur due to severe flooding. Their bus driver, a Mangalpur local warns them never to take newlyweds through the forbidden village, recounting the ancient belief that a Rakshas kidnaps newly wed brides. Ignoring the warning, the group continues the journey, only for the bus to get punctured down deep inside a forest. During the night, the camp is violently attacked by a mysterious creature that kidnaps the newlywed bride, leaving several people critically injured and possibly dead with no recollection of what happened that night.

Soon after, respected Mangalpur local Dushyant Acharya dies under mysterious circumstances after isolating himself for forty days due to a supposed contagious illness. His aide Kali and the caretaker of his Palace, Shantaram discuss his last days and express their apprehension regarding the inheritance of the Acharya Palace — a vast, abandoned mansion supposedly haunted and feared by locals.

In London, Dushyant’s grandchildren Arjun Acharya and Meera Acharya live with their father Vasudev. Preparations are underway for Meera’s wedding to Rahul, and due to her Manglik dosh, a Kadali Vivah ritual is performed before the actual marriage by Arjun with help of a Priest via Video Conferencing. Later on, Vasudev leaves for work and a British lawyer, Richard Gardener informs Meera and Arjun that Dushyant has left them the ancestral Acharya Palace in Mangalpur. Excited at a new fortune and seeing an opportunity to host a royal destination wedding there for Meera and her fiancée Rahul, and after their Udaipur venue also gets cancelled due to some reason, Arjun travels to India to view and renovate the estate.

On the train journey, Arjun meets Priya, a writer researching ancient Indian temples, and saves her life during an accident. Upon reaching Mangalpur, Arjun is warned by palace caretaker Shantaram Yadav that the palace is cursed and haunted and Spirits roam free during the night. According to locals, the spirit of Vadhusur still roams the region, targeting brides before their wedding night. Shantaram reveals that even Dushyant never stayed in the palace overnight, and previously 3 guards who were the last to stay there overnight either went insane or committed suicide.

Arjun dismisses the warnings as superstition and spends the night inside the palace alone and survives unharmed, astonishing the terrified villagers. Arjun also discovers that the palace’s ancient Pooja Room is sealed with a massive lockwhose key has mysteriously vanished. Later when he informs Shantaram and the locals engaged in cleaning the Palace that his sister is to be married there and he has hired wedding planner Jagdish to begin preparations, they all fear for their lives and flee, while to warn him for the final time Shantaram narrates the horrifying origins of Vadhusur.

Long ago, an Asur Kanya and a Dev Putra fell in love and conceived a child, but both the Gods and Demons rejected the unborn baby. After giving birth on the first day of Kalyug, Gods attacked the child and the mother, the injured mother fled to the realm of Darkness and entrusted the child to Andhkarta, the King of Darkness while dying at his feet. To protect the child from the light of the world, the King hid the child deep within Mangal Van alongside an army of bats, and the child grew up isolated from sunlight and humanity. He later devotionally and rigorously worshipped Lord Shiva, who granted him immortality while adding that he could only die either by his own hand or by a fragment of himself.

Empowered by the boon, the creature became the most powerful being in existence and launched a war against the Gods on an Amavasya night.

The Gods realising they cannot defeat him in darkness, went to ask Lord Vishnu for help who sent a celestial Tree Apsara empowered with lightning and thunder.

Upon seeing such a beautiful maiden , Vadhusur instantly fell in love with her, but she refused unless he married her to which he immediately agreed. But during the wedding ceremony she betrayed him by stabbing him in the throat with an enchanted dagger hidden inside the Flower Garland(Varmala), and the helpless Vadhusur collapsed, burying deep into the Earth. However black magic practising tribes built a temple over the site to worship him and seek his resurrection. To prevent his return, the Apsara transformed herself into a giant sacred tree beside the temple and started living there and inserted her hands underground empowered with the divine lightning.

Though his body perished, Vadhusur’s immortal soul survived. Consumed by rage after being betrayed by a newlywed bride, he began abducting and murdering young or newlywed women before their suhagraat (brides yet to consummate their weddings), earning the dreaded name “Vadhusur.”

As Meera’s wedding preparations progress inside the Acharya Palace, increasingly terrifying paranormal incidents begin occurring, suggesting something may be horribly wrong