Deyyam (1996 film)

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Deyyam
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Deyyam Movie Title
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Written byRam Gopal Varma
Produced byRam Gopal Varma
Starring J. D. Chakravarthy
Maheswari
Jayasudha
Ajinkya Deo
Narrated byGanapathi Rao Kommanapalli (Dialogues)
Cinematography Chota K. Naidu
Edited byBhanodaya
Music bySongs:
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Background Score:
Mani Sharma
Distributed byVarma Corporation
Release date
  • 21 June 1996 (1996-06-21)
Running time
96 minutes
Country India
Language Telugu

Deyyam (English: Ghost) is a 1996 Telugu horror film written, produced, and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Maheswari, Jayasudha, and Ajinkya Deo. The film released on 21 June 1996. It is based on the Hollywood film Poltergeist . [1]

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Plot

Late at night, a man returns home. He passes by a graveyard and tries to interact with a ghost that he has mistaken for a woman and follows her. The ghost ambushes and kills him.

The story then moves to a happy couple Murali and Sindhu, who live with their three-year-old son Chinni and Sindhu's sister Mahi. They plan to buy a strange new farmhouse, which is near the same graveyard shown during the beginning of the movie. Mahi is in love with her boyfriend Narsing, and they often hang out together. Problems start to rise when Chinni starts making imaginary friends in their new home. It is later revealed that his "imaginary friends" are ghosts. A sequence of events happen proving the presence of ghosts in the house. Things grow worse when Chinni becomes prey to the ghosts and is killed under mysterious circumstances. Sindhu sees Chinni's ghost and feels that he is still alive. Sindhu gets mentally upset and starts to look for Chinni everywhere around the house.

Meanwhile, Narsing, once while waiting for Mahi near their house by the graveyard one night, comes across the same ghost (seen during the beginning of the movie) and mistakes it for Mahi, and the ghost tries to attack him. He somehow escapes from there. Later, after inquiring with his friends, they tell him that a builder built the farm house on top of a graveyard and there are a lot of rumors in circulation that the place has a demonic presence. Narsing understands that Mahi's family is in serious trouble. He warns Mahi to move away from that house immediately, repeatedly. But Mahi, raised as an atheist, does not pay heed to his words. The ghosts continue to haunt and kill the family members one after the other. The story comes to the climax, where it is revealed that the entire area around the farmhouse is infested with ghosts. The undead rise from their graves, and it boils down to Mahi and Narsing remaining (everyone including Mahi's family joins the undead). They manage to flee from the farmhouse and return to Narsing's house. To their horror, they find the ghosts of Mahi's family and other known people around the farmhouse waiting for them. The final scene shows that they are cornered by the ghosts and surrounded. The film concluded with an uncertain ending as to whether they escape and survive or not.

Cast

Track listing

Telugu (Deyyam)
No.TitleSingerLengthLyricist
1"Alli Billi Kurra Cheera" Mano,05:59
2"Deyyam Pilupu"Instrumental06:00
3"Ee Kulasaala Gulabi"Mano04:44
4"Hello Hello O Missu"Mano04:27
5"O Jaabili" K. S. Chithra 05:33

Reception

A critic from Andhra Today wrote that "They are very few good horror movies in Telugu. Ram Gopal Varma's -Deyyam is one such movie". [2] Though the movie didn't fare well at box office, over period it has attained cult status.

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