Adi studies the matter closely and prepares for the night. She shows him the place, even Manjulika's room, and her belongings. Next morning, he asks Avni to take her to the third floor. He goes and knocks at the door, but sees no one. One night, Aditya hears Manjulika's ghungroo and the sounds of her Bengali song coming from the third floor. Eventually, Aditya falls in love with Radha. Once Aditya reaches the palace, things become comical, as everyone thinks he is a fool, though he is very intelligent and a successful doctor. Aditya Shrivastava ( Akshay Kumar) from New York, to try to figure out what the problem is with Radha. He thinks she has gone crazy since he was supposed to marry her but married Avni instead. Siddharth starts suspecting Radha for all the strange occurrences. Murari ( Asrani) and Batuk Shankar ( Paresh Rawal) try to ward off the evil eye with the help of a priest, Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti ( Vikram Gokhale), but unfortunately the priest has gone to London and is unsure when he might return. Unnatural events once again start taking place inside the palace. Events take a twist when Avni, keenly interested in the story, obtains a copy of the third-floor room key and opens the forbidden locked room that contains the ghost of Manjulika. Soon, with the aid of powerful sorcerers, both Shashidhar's and Manjulika's spirits were locked up in a room on the third floor of the palace using a sacred talisman.Īvni falls in love with the place and learns about Manjulika and her tragic story. Vibhuti Narayan too died under unknown circumstances. Various omens started taking place after that, presuming that the evil eye may have befallen the kingdom. On the day of the king's marriage, Manjulika hanged herself and swore that her spirit would not leave any king who lived in that very palace. When Shashidhar bowed in the end, the king beheaded him and imprisoned Manjulika in her room. On the night of Durgashtami, when the king got to know of the affair and their plan to elope, he called them to perform a dance one last time in the court. He had developed an infatuation for Manjulika, an exceptional dancer and beauty hailing from Bengal, who in turn was in love with Shashidhar, another dancer, who resided in a house just behind the palace and often met her secretly. The palace where Siddharth were staying was once occupied by Raja Vibhuti Narayan, Siddharth's ancestor. Siddharth is crowned as the king, his right to the throne. This leads to Siddharth's childhood love interest Radha ( Ameesha Patel), who is Badri's adopted daughter, feeling heartbroken but she immediately recovers. Siddharth Narayan Chaturvedi ( Shiney Ahuja) and his archeologist wife Avni Chaturvedi ( Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother return to their native village from the United States and decide to stay in their ancestral palace. Badrinarayan "Badri" Chaturvedi ( Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family whose ancestral palace in Rajasthan is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Manjulika, a classical dancer from Bengal.