Mom, what is all this? What are you doing?
You insisted on marrying in this village even when I refused.
In the end, you risked your life.
That’s enough. Even for another moment,
we can’t stay in this village.
What are you saying, mom?
You want me to let go of the people who killed so many girls like me?
I won’t leave until I catch that murderer.
I don’t care about all that.
I don’t care who goes where.
My daughter’s life is my only priority.
We are leaving this village right now.
Mom, what is this?
Earlier because of the curse,
you said me not to marry.
Now you’re saying let’s run away fearing someone might kill me.
Running away in fear is not the solution to every problem, mom.
So, what are you saying now?
Is your job more important to you than me?
It’s not that, mom. Please listen to me.
You must listen to me.
Until you agree to leave this village with me, don’t talk to me.
Mom! Mom!
What happened, madam?
I checked all the files, Kittu,
but I couldn’t find a single detail related to the deaths that happened in the last ten years.
There’s not even a single FIR
filed by anyone.
Not even a single clue, Kittu.
I don’t know where to begin.
We may not know the details of old cases,
but we know everything that happened at your wedding, right?
Let’s start from there, madam.
All these years, everyone said my sister’s death
was because of a curse on this village,
and that the village is cursed.
It hurt me a lot.
But now, realizing that
a murderer used my sister’s death
to take so many lives,
I can’t keep quiet.
I will help you however you need
in this investigation, madam.
We must catch him no matter what.
But hardly ten people were at my wedding, Kittu.
If someone could poison me,
the person must be one among them.
If we can find out how the poison came into your body,
we can find out who did it.
But since I became the bride, I didn’t eat or drink anything, Kittu.
I don’t even understand how the poison entered my body.
'Gauri Puja'.
I drank holy water during Gauri Puja, Kittu.
Do you know who gave me that holy water?
Bhramaramba didn’t like this wedding from the beginning.
Even when the president gave me the necklace that day, she made a scene.
Seems like she has a clear motive, Kittu.
What happened, Kittu?
Madam,
in every wedding that happened seven years ago,
Bhramaramba was the bridesmaid.
We can’t investigate Bhramaramba, Kittu. The president will block it.
The SI won’t give permission either.
There is a way, madam.
I’m not sure about this, Kittu.
Maybe it’s better if we take an arrest warrant?
Madam, if we want to know about Bhramaramba, this is the only way.
You yourself said that
if we search her room, we might find some evidence.
Bhramaramba has gone out on work.
Let’s finish our job before she returns.
Let’s go.
Come.
Careful, madam.
Come.
Madam.
Turn off the sound.
You said Bhramaramba is unmarried?
That’s what I don’t understand, madam.
Madam, Bhramaramba is back. Let’s go, madam.
Madam, if we get caught, there will be huge trouble.
Please listen to me, madam.
Hey!
How dare you? How did you even enter my room?
You…
How did you enter my room?
Chinnababu,
your fiancee breaks into my room with a thief in the midnight and creating trouble.
First, send her out.
You are a police officer.
Yet you sneak into our house
at midnight dragging people along. Aren’t you ashamed?
What are you doing in my sister’s room?
Your sister is the prime suspect in my case.
I had no choice but to investigate like this.
-What are you saying? -Yes.
Do you know who mixed poison in the holy water on our wedding day? Your sister.
She mixed poison in the holy water and tried to kill me.
Your sister never liked this wedding from the start.
She had a clear motive. I will prove it with evidence.
The day I knew someone like you would come into our family,
I felt like killing you out of anger.
But looking at my brother’s face, I let you go.
You will prove? What will you prove?
I gave you the holy water that day.
But do you know who handed it to me? Your mom.
Go arrest your mom now.
Enough, both of you leave now.
Leave.
Sorry.
You thought of bringing someone like her into this family as our daughter-in-law.
Now look at what she did.
She sneaked into our house and accused my sister of being a criminal.
If this goes public, our family’s honor will be completely ruined.
That’s enough, dad. Let’s forget about this wedding now.
Mom, I need to talk to you.
Mom!
You!
Will you listen to me?
Why don't you listen to me? Is it always your way?
Mom,
Bhramaramba mixed poison in the holy water to kill me.
What are you saying?
Is what you’re saying true?
It’s not completely confirmed yet, mom.
Mom, tell me one thing.
On the day of Gauri Puja,
did you give the holy water to Bhramaramba?
Yes, I mixed it and gave it to her.
Mom, try to remember carefully.
Was anyone around you at that time?
Or did you see Bhramaramba mix anything in the holy water?
No.
Bhramaramba didn’t mix anything in the holy water.
But after the puja, we all took the same holy water.
-Please come in. -Hmm.
I thought it would be nice to have a brave girl like you as our daughter-in-law.
But I didn’t realize you had the courage
to disgrace our family.
It’s clear that,
more than family bonds, you value your job.
I think it’s best to stop this wedding right here.
That’s what I came to say.
I came to talk to you directly, Mr. President.
Our decision is the same.
Just one minute.
This necklace was meant for your family’s daughter-in-law. Please take it back.
The whole village thinks Bhramaramba is unmarried.
But in that video,
she appeared as a bride.
Until I get answers to all my questions, I won’t drop this case.
Until then, Bhramaramba is the prime suspect in this case.
My daughter is stubborn,
but she is not brave enough to kill someone.
What you saw in the video is true.
And it’s also true that the marriage didn’t happen.
And I am the reason for that.
I ruined my daughter’s life with my own hands.
She fell in love with a boy from a lower caste. I didn’t agree to the marriage.
She tried to marry him without informing me.
I couldn’t tolerate it.
When the groom was about to sit on the wedding stage,
I threatened him using my people
and sent him away from this village.
Hey, my wedding!
No matter how long Bhramaramba waited on the wedding stage,
the man she loved didn’t come.
I thought she would forget him eventually,
but I didn’t expect she would keep thinking about him and ruin her life.
Later I realized my mistake and searched everywhere,
but by then Surendra
had already left the village.
Because of my mistake,
my daughter became like this.
But she is not a murderer as you think.
Please leave this matter here.
Hello.
I am Constable Meena
from Viratapalem Police Station.
Please check all the details I asked for in your database and send them to me quickly.
Okay.
-Madam. -Hmm.
Is it true that your wedding is called off?
I heard that Mr. President canceled your wedding.
Sir, tea.
No tea, nothing. You go.
-Meena, please come. -Yes, sir.
Sir?
Hmm.
-What is this, sir? -Your transfer order.
What? I haven’t even completed one month since I joined.
Why transfer me already?
I have been telling you
not to mess with big people.
This order came directly from the head office.
If you want to question it, go talk to the head office.
Sir, that’s not it.
I’ve just started investigating this case.
If you give me a little more time…
Whether you investigate the case or not,
you must leave this village within a week.
That’s a government order. I can’t do anything about it.
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Sir, what is this?
It's not even a month since I joined.
Why this transfer already, sir?
What is the reason for my transfer?
Every month, there are hundreds of transfers in the department.
We can’t sit and figure out the reason for each one.
Sir, at least postpone this transfer by a month.
It’s a government order, madam.
Once it is issued, nothing can be changed.
Even if you file a request, it won’t work. Don’t waste our time. You may leave.
Hey Meena, how are you? Long time no see.
I’m good, uncle. How are you?
Is it another transfer?
You’re becoming just like your dad.
He used to get transferred every six months.
No, uncle.
But this time, they transferred me within a month.
I don’t understand why, uncle.
Is that so?
Okay, you stay here. I’ll find out.
Meena, yours is not a regular transfer.
Someone from the MLA’s office called and got it done.
Who, uncle?
Someone named Narasayya, dear.
Seems like an influential person.
It’s better if you’re careful.
Narasayya did this? What, madam?
I thought it was the president.
But why did Narasayya do it?
That’s what
I don’t understand, Kittu.
What’s Narasayya’s benefit in sending me out of the village?
Because of the so-called curse on our village, many people left
their houses over the past ten years.
Narasayya bought all their
properties at cheap rates.
The man who used to roam around on a bicycle,
now wears silk clothes and drives a car.
If anyone benefited from our village’s misfortune,
it’s that Narasayya.
If you solve this case and
prove there’s no curse,
people won’t leave the village and sell their properties.
Maybe that’s why he wanted to get you out of the way.
Did he profit from the curse,
or did he create the curse for profit?
Did he kill so many girls for money?
Greed can make people commit any kind of atrocity, Kittu.
When I was in police headquarters,
I met the forensic doctor who collected Malli’s blood samples.
This is the detailed report you asked for, madam.
Thank you, sir.
Normally, when it’s a village matter, I’d think
it’s some local poison or rat poison.
But they used strychnine poison to kill her, Meena.
It’s a very rare poison.
It can only be prepared in a lab.
Using such poison to commit a village murder
is surprising.
It was done with a perfect plan.
Does this poison have an expiry date, doctor?
How long does it remain effective?
Once prepared in the lab,
it is stored in an air-tight container.
Once opened, it oxidizes and
loses its potency within seventy-four hours.
Okay, thank you, doctor.
There is no lab in our village, madam.
So
someone must have brought the poison from the city and killed the brides.
Yes, Kittu.
In my wedding, everyone knew the auspicious time, so the killer had enough time.
But Ranga and Malli’s wedding happened suddenly.
Which means the killer would have had to bring the poison overnight from another town,
or
get someone to bring it.
We need to find out if Narasayya was in the village or not on the night Malli died, Kittu.
Start enquiring about Narasayya’s associates and people who work for him.
We might find some clues.
We have no time, Kittu.
We must solve this case within this week at any cost.
Hmm.
Stop, stop,
stop.
One minute.
Sir, my bicycle broke down while I was bringing goods from the city.
So should my boss get down and fix it or what?
Hey, keep quiet.
There are goods. Unload them nearby.
If you don’t let him on, he will just lie down under the jeep.
Okay, get on.
What’s new in the village?
Nothing much. Everyone in the village
wants you to become the president now.
Because the current president has done nothing for the village so far.
Instead of solving existing problems,
he is bringing new issues like weddings and rituals.
Everyone is criticizing him.
He couldn’t even stop Ranga’s wedding that day.
If you were the president,
you would have slapped Ranga and stopped the wedding.
You are always at the forefront in the village.
Even when
Malli died that morning, you were there.
You were leaving the village for some work,
but you stopped to make sure you saw everything.
He didn’t leave, he just came back.
He went to the city for work at night and returned to the village by morning.