

The old woman had been possessed before by the same witch, and had exorcised the spirit, but not before the enraged spirit killed her supposed husband. Guniya Bhai, fearing the police investigation behind Roohi’s kidnapping, instructs them to abandon her, but they refuse, forcing him to send his henchmen to get the job done.īhawra finds out from an old woman that the ‘Mudiyapairi’ has to be tricked into marrying a man who is already married, which makes her the mistress and forces her to leave the body she is possessing.

They learn that the demon is a Mudiyapairi (a witch with backward-turned feet) and she will not leave unless she gets married along with the girl she is possessing. Roohi was actually supposed to be married a year ago, but the groom and his family fled after seeing she was possessed.īhawra falls for Roohi and tries to coax the spirit from her body Kattanni, on the other hand, is smitten by the demonic spirit, who identifies herself as Afza, and tries to bring her forward instead of Roohi so that he can talk to her. During their stay, Bhawra realizes that Roohi is actually possessed by a demonic spirit, which is corroborated by her father.

However, a death in the family of the groom forces them to keep her in hiding in an abandoned woodwork shop so that the marriage can take place after the funeral. They are tasked by their boss and kidnapping-gang leader Guniya Bhai to kidnap Roohi as part of a contract by a guy who wishes to marry her. The film is the second installment in Dinesh Vijan’s horror-comedy universe, the first being Stree, and is to be followed by Bhediya.īhawra Pandey and Kattanni Qureshi are from a village called Bagadpur, where it is customary for the girl to be kidnapped against her will by the guy who wishes to marry her. Roohi is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language comedy horror film directed by Hardik Mehta and produced by Dinesh Vijan under the banner Maddock Films.
