Bhooth Bangla (2026)

At a storm-battered railway platform in Mangalpur, stranded travellers listen to an old mystic recount the legend of Vadhusur, a demon granted immortality by Lord Shiva who could only be killed by his own hand or bloodline. Betrayed and killed by a celestial apsara during their wedding, Vadhusur's ghost roams the world seeking revenge. He feeds on newly married women and haunts the local Acharya Palace. Years later, Dushyant Acharya (Guruji) fakes his death and leaves the estate to his grandchildren Arjun and Meera. Despite warnings from caretaker Shantaram, Arjun decides to restore the palace for Meera's wedding. On the way, he encounters a writer, Priya, who is searching for her missing sister, and saves her from an accident. At the palace, Arjun is briefly electrocuted and killed in the bathroom, but Priya revives him with CPR.

Guruji's secrets are soon revealed. He had built an automated device that played sacred mantras to keep Vadhusur dormant, but his son Madhav, jealous of a woman named Yashodha, sabotaged it so that the mantras played in reverse. Madhav consequently becomes partially possessed as Vadhusur's physical vessel. Vasudev was forced aside, while Yashodha's true love raised her son Arjun as his own, meaning Arjun is actually Madhav's biological son and carries Vadhusur's bloodline. A priest warns that evil grows in darkness and urges the wedding to take place during the day, with the couple crossing the Ganges before sunset. However, Guruji arranges the wedding at the palace intending to use Meera as the 13th and final sacrifice needed to fully resurrect Vadhusur and free Madhav.

Despite Arjun's objections, the groom's family insists on an auspicious nighttime wedding. Possessed electrician Sunder shuts down the generator, plunging the palace into darkness, and Madhav abducts Meera to a subterranean temple. Vasudev and the priest enter a sealed prayer room to restart the sacred mantra device and weaken Vadhusur, while Arjun confronts his biological father. Using his bloodline, Arjun impales Madhav with a lightning-charged branch from the apsara's sacred tree, destroys the ritual, kills the corrupt Guruji and rescues Meera, who awakens without remembering the ordeal. Arjun angrily confronts the groom's priest for insisting on a nighttime wedding and declares that birth charts are written by humans, not gods.

Later, footage from the group's earlier visit to the temple reveals that 'Priya' is actually the ghost of her murdered twin sister, Chitra. Back at the railway platform, the mystic reveals himself to be an aged Arjun. He explains that the earlier electrocution gave him the ability to see spirits and that he has spent the past 24 years performing rituals to bring peace to the soul of his biological father.