| Director | Aditya Sarpotdar |
|---|---|
| Budget | ₹145 crore |
| Box office | ₹169.8 crore |
Alok Goyal is a struggling journalist. He attempts to fake a demon sighting in a graveyard but it backfires and he ends up getting mocked as an internet meme. Undeterred, he attempts to prove his courage during a camping trip with his friends by hiking into an unmarked trail and as a result, walks right into a bear which scares his friends away and begins to chase him.
Just as the bear corners Alok, a woman named Tadaka rescues him. Alok faints from exhaustion and when he finally comes to inside an abandoned wrecked plane that serves as Tadaka's home, he instantly gets smitten by her, who tells him he still hasn't fully recovered, promising to drop him off personally when he has and to not go deep into the jungle again, especially at night, without her. Over the next few days, Alok notices that Tadaka doesn't act very normal as her physical prowess is beyond anything he's seen, she gives him whole raw animals whenever he's hungry and when she does find something edible, she refuses to eat it herself. However, he brushes it off.
One night, Tadaka quietly vanishes and Alok sets off into the jungle again, ignoring her previous warnings and ends up getting knocked out by a group of men with whom he sees Tadaka arguing with. He's then dragged to a village, which is Tadaka's true home and inhabited by betaals. Tadaka pleads to let Alok go, swearing he knows nothing about them or her true identity and she hasn't told him anything either. She nearly convinces them but Alok, who's gone partially and temporarily deaf due to being knocked out so hard, gets confused and accidentally ends up insulting the betaals, not realising they're not human, and is thrown into a cave in which a betaal named Yakshashan is chained in. Yakshashan nearly tricks Alok so he may bite him but he's saved at the last second by Tadaka. Furious, Yakshashan orders the same betaals who knocked Alok out to chase after them but they manage to evade them. Alok asks Tadaka to come with him and while she refuses at first, Alok reminds her that she promised to drop him off personally and that he won't let her get punished just to free him.
Alok and Tadaka find a way to get back to Alok's parents's home in Delhi. There is a mysterious enigma around Tadaka which leaves Alok's father suspicious. Tadaka renames herself as Tarika to convince Alok's parents, and she struggles to find sufficient food. Alok decides to take her out for dinner, where she can enjoy non-vegetarian food. At the party, she gets drunk and dances with unknown men. On their way home, the same group of men chase Alok and Tadaka, intent on assaulting her. Alok gets out of the car and attempts to solve the matter peacefully by talking. When he is unable to do so, Tadaka loses and unleashes upon them as a betaal. While she leaves them alive, they are then killed by Yakshasan's followers. Days later, a senior police officer who also happens to be a betaal visits Alok's residence and thinks Tadaka has killed the men, and that she has to leave for Alok's safety.
Alok chases her bus and when he is about to reunite with Tadaka, the car flips over and kills him. She saves his life by biting him, turning him into a betaal. Yakshasan senses the transformation and rejoices as he will soon be freed from the cave now that Tadaka has violated the rule that forbade betaals from turning humans, and the betaal criminal would take his place in captivity as punishment. Alok learns to control his new powers and navigate his new life as a betaal with Tadaka's help.
Alok's father notices his vampire-like teeth. When the truth is revealed to him, he refuses to accept it and takes his son to the exorcist Prabhakar, who tells him Alok's condition cannot be reversed. Janardhan "Jana" is also with Prabhakar, seeking help for his werewolf cousin Bhaskar, who was severely injured during the fight with Sarkata, a headless monster. Prabhakar says Bhaskar can be cured with the blood of a betaal. Bhaskar finds Alok and fights him, achieving a hybrid form with just one drop of Alok's blood. Tadaka comes to his rescue just in time. They then seek protection from Yadav, who takes them to the local betaal bar. It turns out to be a trap: they drug Alok then confront Tadaka for her violation and order her to leave town.
Tadaka surrenders to the sect and is put in captivity for breaking the sect's rule about drinking human blood. Alok finds his way to the land of the betaals where he and Yakshasan engage in a severe battle. Alok is beaten down and just as Yakshasan kills him, a miracle from their goddess brings him back to life. Alok gains the beating heart of the sect's deity, defeats Yakshasan with his new powers and becomes the new leader.
Yakshasan is put back in the cave but Sarkata appears to free him. Alok, Tadaka and other heads of the sect gear up to hunt Yakshasan. Alok is informed that he would need extra powers to fight him and only the blood of a werewolf can do make him more powerful. Bhaskar, in his new werewolf form, heads towards the betaal sect's temple.