Soon, with the aid of powerful sorcerers, both Shashidhar's and Manjulika's spirits were locked up in a room on the third floor of the palace using a sacred talisman.Īvni falls in love with the place and learns about Manjulika and her tragic story.
Vibhuti Narayan too died under unknown circumstances. Various omens started taking place after that, presuming that the evil eye may have befallen the kingdom. On the day of the king's marriage, Manjulika hanged herself and swore that her spirit would not leave any king who lived in that very palace. When Shashidhar bowed in the end, the king beheaded him and imprisoned Manjulika in her room. On the night of Durgashtami, when the king got to know of the affair and their plan to elope, he called them to perform a dance one last time in the court. He had developed an infatuation for Manjulika, an exceptional dancer and beauty hailing from Bengal, who in turn was in love with Shashidhar, another dancer, who resided in a house just behind the palace and often met her secretly. The palace where Siddharth were staying was once occupied by Raja Vibhuti Narayan, Siddharth's ancestor. Siddharth is crowned as the king, his right to the throne. This leads to Siddharth's childhood love interest Radha ( Ameesha Patel), who is Badri's adopted daughter, feeling heartbroken but she immediately recovers. Siddharth Narayan Chaturvedi ( Shiney Ahuja) and his archeologist wife Avni Chaturvedi ( Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother return to their native village from the United States and decide to stay in their ancestral palace.
Badrinarayan "Badri" Chaturvedi ( Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family whose ancestral palace in Rajasthan is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Manjulika, a classical dancer from Bengal.