Shanmukha

Shanmukha

The story begins in a secluded, forest-adjacent village where a local man named Viganda (Chirag Jani) and his wife celebrate the birth of their son. However, their joy quickly turns to horror and despair when they realize the baby has a rare, shocking deformity: he is born with six distinct faces, resembling the deity Shanmukha. Fearing social ostracization and the villagers' cruel superstitious reactions, Viganda hides the child away. Desperate to find a "cure" and transform his son's monstrous appearance into a normal child, Viganda travels to Varanasi to study dark magic and Kshudra Pooja (black magic). Upon returning, a powerful occult sorcerer gives him a gruesome prescription: to collapse the six faces into one, Viganda must perform human sacrifices of six beautiful young women, each born under a different, specific nakshatra (astrological star sign). A horrific pattern begins as Viganda, aided by his loyal brother-in-law, starts abducting young women from nearby areas to systematically murder them in sacrificial rituals deep within the forest. Mysteriously, shortly after each girl vanishes, her respective boyfriend is driven to a bizarre, sudden suicide—a pattern designed to cover up the tracks of the kidnappings. Meanwhile, in Hyderabad, Karthi Vallabhan (Aadi Saikumar) is a reckless but highly capable Sub-Inspector who lands himself in hot water with his superiors after losing his service weapon during a high-stakes drug bust.

Release

21 Mar 2025

Run time

121 min

Language

Telugu