I was waiting for you
Your son touched my wife’s belly
That’s why we lost our child
I will burn you alive
Babu... Leave it
Do you know why these people are gathered here?
You know the problems in the village
We also heard a lot about Sreekuttan
Do you know about the village collective’s meeting?
We all know who your mother is
We also know about your ancestral house
Do you know how many people have gone missing from the vicinity of your house?
Since Sreekuttan’s birth, a curse has fallen upon the village
A lot of people have experienced it
So, the village has taken a final decision
Either you, Leela and Sreekuttan leave the village immediately
Or Sreekuttan should never come out of the house
The village has imposed a ban on him
In case Sreekuttan is seen outside, your will face unimaginable consequences
Come... hope you understood everything
Sreedhar?
Upstairs
Rajan?
Didn’t time itself bring you here, just as I predicted?
I've been looking for you for a long time.
Raja, you look older than I am
Sit down... hmmm
I made a mistake last time
Please forgive me
Don't hold it against me
Forgive? But you didn’t do anything
You drink now, don’t you?
I have some doubts
I know what you want to find out
Come
You took a long time to come
You believed in your mother
Sit
If you had killed your mother just as I told you to
You wouldn't be sitting here in front of me today
How will I kill my mother?
Why? That’s not even your mother
I don’t understand
Can you be more specific?
Raja, you mother Kanthi
died when you were just 18.
Whom did I look after all these years?
You did not take care of your mother
You nursed a vicious monster
Rajan
The one who had control over the spirit of your mother, who died 30 years ago
Was a buffalo
Another entity she created from her own power
A buffalo-human creature called Erumamaadan
That power circles around Kanthi all the time
It’s hard for me to believe all this
The other doubt you have
Is whether Sreekuttan is really Leela’s child
Rajan, Sreekuttan is not your blood
He is born to Kanthi and the Erumamaadan
Leela was merely a body used to manifest that power
Sreekuttan will live as a human only until he turns 10
On the full moon night of his eleventh year
He’ll abandon his human body and be a demon
Like your mother
Does he not turn 11 tomorrow?
Don’t you see the moment when time has brought you before me?
What’s a solution for this?
Rajan... Your mother has a history you know nothing about... you need to know it.
Who your mother really was
She was born to the last generation of the hunter-gatherer community of Vedars
Your mother Kanthi’s beauty was in her shining eyes.
So perfect, she would make anyone fall in love at first sight
They say she had many supernatural powers even when she was a child
Then her maternal uncle decided to teach Kanti witchcraft
A woman occultist named Sumeshwari was the teacher
He took her to a tantric family in Kongini village, known for their mystical powers In that family, only girls were taught witchcraft
She had a son and a daughter
Her daughter was Ayilya and son Mallikan
After marriage, Ayilya was living in Ratnagiri
Kanthi, who began learning witchcraft, soon became the best student
Sumeshwari was surprised by her ability in sorcery
Sumeshwari taught Kanthi all chapters of Raktaakshara, which contained all forms of witchcraft
Except one chapter
The Raktadhyaayam (The blood chapter). Because it was never allowed to be taught
That was a forbidden chapter
But Kanthi had a growing curiosity to know what Raktadhyayam was
That was the time when the evil spirit Muchundi had descended in the Karimala forest
At the same time, Sumeshwari had to go to Ratnagiri for the naming ceremony her daughter Ayilya’s son
So, until Sumeshwari returned, she sent Kanthi and other disciples to protect the village
But before Sumeshwari returned, Kanthi defeated the evil force
The villagers began calling Kanthi by the name of their forest goddess Chandulika
All this success boosted Kanthi’s pride
The crux of the chapter was to
She sneaked into the magical sanctum and stole the book Raktaakshara Learned the forbidden chapter Rakthadhyayam byheart
Lure a virgin young man and marry him
Then kill him and capture his soul
It’s believed that ritual would give the ultimate power
Understanding this secret, Kanthi seduced Sumeshwari’s son Mallikan
She made him fall in love with her, then married him and killed him
Then she captured his soul
She created an Erumamaadan, the man-buffalo spirit
Thus, Kanthi became the most powerful
When Sumeshwari learned this, she cursed her
But the curse did not take effect on Kanthi
She summoned Erumamaadan and destroyed Sumeshwari and her entire lineage
Kanthi did not know that only Ayilya’s son had survived from that lineage
But what Kanthi did not want happened in her life
Without Kanthi knowing, Mallikan’s child was growing inside her womb
When the child was born, and she named him Rajan
The presence of Erumamaadan made her even more terrifying
Kanthi used her hair and spells to capture many things and destroy many others
Her eating habits changed; she began consuming only raw mongoose meat and alcohol
But one day, when Kanthi went to Hanumankunnu for witchcraft rituals...
A divine power arose against her magical powers
That affected her powers
Humiliated, Kanthi withdrew from the outside world and began waiting to create a greater power
She needed a woman’s body to create that
A woman born in the divine clan of the Asura lineage
That was your Leela
Through Leela, Kanthi materialised that power
That boy whom Kanthi spared from killing that day is me Sreedhar
My life’s purpose is to destroy the power that killed my mother and my family
And to burn that demon into ashes
I have been waiting for ages for that
For that I need your help, Rajan
The stories you’ve heard are not just legends, Rajan
You... You are just her slave
Even after all this, if you still don’t understand...
I understand everything now
Then what is the solution now?
There is only one solution
Are you not the reason for all the problems in this village?
Hey Leela, you’ve been making Rajan and Sreekuttan upset lately
I don’t care about Rajan, but Sreekuttan...
Even if you thought of hurting him... I will kill you
Sreekuttan is my son. I will decide whether to cane him or scold him
Who are you to question that?
You are just an old woman; you even need someone’s help just to lie down
Yeah, you are right. I am an old woman
I might even need someone else’s help
But I am powerful, and I am happy
I don’t have the body to create a life
But I still have the power to create one
That was the only reason I needed you
You are a strong woman who can match my power; you won’t break
So, no matter what you say, I still like you
Oh, Stop it
Leela, Sreekuttan is my son
My lineage... you are just a pawn in the process
And Rajan... just a mule
Don’t try to influence me like you did with Rajettan
So, you know it
But what else can that idiot do
Who do you think brought you here in the first place
Do you think Rajan brought you here by marrying you?
Is there any truth in what your mother said?
What did she say? Stop crying?
She said that she asked you to marry me
And that Sreekuttan is her son
Leela, what’s wrong with you? That old woman keeps blurting out whatever comes to her mind
Don’t you still understand that?
Villagers say something, she says something else... I don’t understand anything anymore
Don’t cry
That’s why I had asked not to meet her alone
Raja, you have only one solution; you must kill your own mother
Is Sreekuttan my son or not?
Why? Did Sreedhar not tell you anything?
I need to hear it in your voice
When you see Sreekuttan, do you see yourself in him?
Or do you see me in him
Were you the reason for the death of our first child?
It was just a sacrifice to create a higher power
So what?
We have Sreekuttan now
Be happy
Whatever it is, Sreekuttan is at least a man
Unlike you
I have been living like a slave all this time for my mother
I loved my mother that much
But you...
What did you do to my mother...