The story revolves around a haunted farmhouse Mantra Nilayam, which is owned by Mantra (Charmi). She tries to sell the house but due to mysterious deaths at the house, nobody comes forward to buy it. A professor, however, agrees to buy the property on the condition that someone stay in the house for three months. Hero (Sivaji), a goon who looks after land settlements, is ready to stay in the house for the commission promised once the house is sold. The remainder of the film involves how Hero solves the mystery behind the deaths.
Acting
Charmi owns the haunted house with desperate conviction.
Production
Mantra Nilayam feels genuinely cursed as a location.
Writing
The three-month bet creates delicious ticking-clock tension.
Director
Osho Tulasi Ram
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Charmi Kaur was only 19 during filming and carried this film on her shoulders during a transitional era for Telugu horror.
The film arrived during Telugu cinema's 2000s horror boom, when rural haunted properties became metaphors for ancestral guilt and land disputes.
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