Manish Wadhwa

DEVA is an edge-of-the-seat, power-packed thriller about a brilliant yet rebellious police officer investigating a high-profile murder case.

Ruhaan, a fraudster posing as an exorcist, takes on a lucrative case at a haunted castle, unraveling a sinister plot involving mischievous priests, culminating in a hilarious yet thrilling ride filled with unexpected twists and scares. 1824 Manjulika is burnt alive by a Maharaja but she returns to take revenge and haunts the palace.Two hundred years later in present time Ruhan cons people as Rooh Baba by assuring to free them from spirits.He has a visitor Meera and her uncle who ask him to accompany them to their palace haunted by Manjulika and promise him huge sum.Upon reaching he realizes that no one lives in the palace fearing the ghost and Meera and her family live in cowshed in poverty.The villagers give Ruhan shocking looks and he realizes from head priest that he is reincarnation of their king who was killed by his sister Manjulika.The village burns Manjulika's statute every year during a festival but this time a mysterious women Mallika enters the palace and claims o be a historian and during her research leads to a secret passage which the head priest asks not to open until Durga Asthami.But Ruhan,Meera and others open the door of secret passage where head priest arrives to tell that more havoc is waiting to come on the palace.As he finds that the king had two sisters who were jealous of him and wanted to kill him.But it's a mystery that who was actually Manjulika who killed him and the havoc arrives in form of Mandira whose waiting to enter the palace. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com

There are two timelines. While the present takes place in Hyderabad, the past happened in 1970`s Bengal.