Dhilluku Dhuddu 2

<p>Viji and his maternal uncle are happy-go-lucky guys who create a nuisance for their neighbours due to their drunken antics. The neighbours try out different methods to escape their antics, but in vain. One of the neighbours, Karthik, who is a doctor by profession, comes across nurse Maya, whom he is in love with. However, when Karthik tries to express his love, he is beaten black and blue by a mysterious ghost. After finding out details about Maya and the ghost, the doctor and other neighbours plot against Viji to make him fall in love with Maya and let the ghost take care of him. Injured in a fight, Viji, seeking a physiotherapist’s help, falls in love with Maya, who was engineered by his neighbours. Things take a twist, and Viji is thrashed by the ghost. Viji finds out that Maya’s father Garudaraja Bhattadhri is a powerful magician in and that he had set the ghost to protect Maya. Viji sets out to Kerala to convince Maya’s father, along with his uncle. They insult Bhattadhri, and he sets out to do a pooja to harm them. To escape that, they ask for Chakra Mahadevi’s help. It turns out that both Bhattadhri and Mahadevi are fake and that there is a real ghost protecting Maya. They go to a , where he reveals the flashback about the ghost. In 1857, a British man named George Williams went to , where he seduced girls and ruined their lives. Due to a job transfer, he came to Kerala, where his lustful gaze fell on Devyani Kutti, but he was unaware that she was the daughter of the king of black magic, Marthanda Varma. Soon, Marthanda Varma learned about George, so to kill George, he took the great Yatchi palm script on a pournami day and gave an order to Yatchi to protect his daughter. That night, George proposes to Devyani and at that moment, Yatchi killed George. After British left India, he stuffed Yatchi into an idol and buried it. After that, Maya’s father says that he has a similar Yatchi in his house, so the magician does some pooja to determine whether it is active, so that time it is active. To kill the Yatchi, they need to retrieve the palm script from the bungalow where Maya’s father took the Yatchi which happens to be the black magician Marthanda Varma lived. Viji and others had various encounters with other ghosts there, they finally retrieved the palm script and gave to the magician who continues the pooja, where he requests the yatchi to leave Maya as she is to be married. The Yatchi refuses, thrashing down the magician and throws the palm script to fire pit. The Yatchi possess Maya attempting for her to get suicide on the bungalow. When Viji and Maya’s father attempts to saving her were failing, to everyone suprise the ghost of king of black magic, Marthanda Varma comes at right time performing the closure ritual and thereby killing the ghost. The end credits show Viji confronting his neighbors who were enjoying his departure were shocked to see him alive and well with Viji thanking them their attempts to throw him down has turned over a new leaf in his life where he and Maya got settled along with Viji maternal uncle lived happily ever after. The soundtrack was composed by . The film released on 7 February 2019 to mixed reviews from critics and positive response from audience and became an box office success. A critic from rated the film three out of five wrote that “While many comedy scenes hit the target, some of them fail to do so. The spooky scenes in the pre climax portions have ample fun elements, though it’s a bit stretched which affected the mood to a small extent”. A critic from rated the film two-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that “Some gags work, some lines are funny, many are offensive… and for the most part, the film’s just tiresome”. A critic from wrote that ” is certainly late to the party as far as the ‘horror comedy’ bandwagon is concerned, but it might just give some hope to Santhanam’s dwindling career”. A critic from rated the film one out of five and wrote that “Overall, plays out like a rehashed ‘ ’ rehearsal session, sans purpose, fun and good humour”.</p>