Prema Katha Chitram 2013

The film follows three friends — Sudheer Babu, Praveen, and Nandita Raj — who feel life has pushed them to the edge and decide to plan a group suicide. Each of them sets out to check off a final wish before their planned departure: Nandu aims to steal a flashy new car, while Sudheer dreams of delivering a bold slap to a local MLA in his own house. After pulling off these impulsive acts and slipping away from the police, the trio hides out at a farmhouse owned by Praveen’s boss, hoping the world will forget their names. A twist arrives in the form of Nellore Giri, another would‑be quitter found in a restaurant, who joins them and accelerates their escape to the rural refuge. Saptagiri brings to life Giri, a rough‑around‑the‑edges addition who changes the dynamic of the group as they settle into the farmhouse.

Once there, Praveen and Nandu—who is Sudheer’s neighbor and a hotel-management student—conspire to postpone the planned endings for three days so they can shield Sudheer from the consequences of a love‑fueled despair. As the days unfold, the four people grow closer in the cramped quiet of the farmhouse, and Sudheer finds himself drawn to Nandu even as he hesitates to confess for fear of humiliation. In a bid to avert the death bid echoing in their minds, Praveen suggests a staged kiss to derail the plan, and Sudheer agrees—only to have the moment hijacked by a supernatural force. A ghosty intrusion appears the moment affection is shown, entering Nandu’s body and shoving Sudheer aside. He bolts from the room, shaken and confused, while Nandu’s mood darkens as she senses a presence no one else can name.

That night, Sudheer learns more about Nandu—she is a hotel management student who lives nearby and has secretly fallen for him. Her warmth and openness stand in stark contrast to the fear she feels when the ghost gains control, and Sudheer’s closeness with another girl adds to her heartbreak. The group struggles to understand what is happening, and as the ghost repeatedly interrupts moments of intimacy, the trio begins to fear they won’t be able to leave the farmhouse alive. Unaware of the spectral force, Nandu grows depressed, and the ghost’s malevolent power seems to tighten its grip on her body and emotions. The four friends decide to stay together, even as the haunting intensifies, hoping some new plan might free them from this impossible predicament.

As their attempts to coax the spirit out prove futile, the farmhouse’s uneasy quiet is broken by the arrival of three wealthy men who permit the four to remain for now; one of them is the farmhouse’s owner. The ghost finally reveals her motive in a direct, devastating flash of memory: Lakshmi, a newly married woman who shared the farmhouse with her husband on their wedding night, was brutalized and murdered by three drunken men—struck with a champagne bottle, raped, and left for dead as the husband is impaled and drowned. The men bury Lakshmi nearby, and her spirit returns to seek vengeance against those who wronged her. Moved by Lakshmi’s tale and angry at the injustice she suffered, Sudheer, Praveen, and Giri rally to confront the men who harmed her. They fight back and kill the three assailants, breaking the dark hold they had over Nandu.

With the truth laid bare, the ghost’s hold over Nandu begins to recede and Lakshmi’s spirit finally departs from her body. The friends rush Nandu to a hospital, where Sudheer donates blood to help her recover. She regains consciousness, and the film closes on a quiet, resolute note: the trio—Saptagiri and Praveen among them—watch as the couple at the center of the story shares a heartfelt embrace, a small beacon of hope after a night of fear, vengeance, and hard-won understanding.