Aakashaganga 2 2019

Twenty years after the tragedy at Maanikaseri Kovilakam, the family line has thinned, leaving Unnikrishnan Varma (Unni), his sister Oppol, and his only daughter Arathi Varma to carry on with fragile memories and a lingering legacy. Arathi is portrayed as an atheist and rationalist medical student who navigates life with a tight circle of friends — Jithu, Titus, and her lover [Gopi] Vishnu Vinay. When the four of them stumble upon an ashram, they are drawn in by Soumini Devi, Ramya Krishnan — a tantrik ritualist famed for dark spells and black magic — and the unsettling promise of hidden powers. The encounter sets a course for events that blur the line between belief and fear, science and superstition, within the old family home.

Driven by curiosity, Arathi agrees to test the ashram’s claims and is granted permission to contact the soul of her deceased mother, Maya, known in life as Daisy, who died after childbirth. The mother’s spirit speaks of a bracelet she intended to give Arathi at birth, a keepsake woven by her great-grandmother that could hold a key to the family’s past. This revelation invites Arathi into a dangerous quest: the search for the bracelet becomes a journey that uncovers a forbidden temple where the malevolent soul of Ganga, the maid who died under brutal circumstances caused by the Maanikaseri men decades earlier, still lingers. Arathi’s curiosity leads to a dire accident—the evil spirit is released into the family home, triggering a wave of paranormal disturbances that unsettle everyone who lives there.

The friends fearfully seek help from Meppadan Thirumeni, the exorcist who once subdued the same ancient spirit, but they learn with shock that he has already passed away. With the sense of danger escalating, they reach out to Soumini Devi, the estranged daughter of Meppadan, who confirms that the disturbances are indeed tied to Ganga’s restless soul. Soumini explains that after the spirit was expelled from Arathi’s mother’s body, a chain of deaths among family members followed Arathi’s birth, an ominous pattern tied to this same presence. Meppadan had once imprisoned the evil soul inside the family temple and warned the family not to open its doors again, a warning that now weighs heavily as the house grows darker and more volatile.

As the haunting intensifies, the spirit locks onto Arathi with terrifying focus, aiming to end her life on the coming new moon night of 31 July. Before that fate can unfold, the haunting culminates in a possession that nearly destroys Arathi. Unni is killed by the vengeful spirit, a grim act that seems to avenge generations of guilt and bloodshed linked to Ganga’s demise. In response, Soumini Devi teams up with Ananthan Thirumeni, a disciple of Meppadan, to perform one last exorcism. The ritual succeeds in severing the spirit’s hold on Arathi, and Thirumeni vows that the specter will never return to her again. Yet the struggle does not end there: Arathi and her friends depart the family home, only to witness Soumini Devi attacked and killed by the same vengeful force.

The fate of the malevolent spirit, as well as the futures and fates of those touched by it, remain shrouded in uncertainty. The story closes with a sense of unresolved consequence, signaling that some shadows from the past still watch over the Maanikaseri family, leaving lingering questions about what else might awaken when old sins resurface.