The investigation also takes back to around 125 years when Raja Vijaya Rajendra Bahadur (Vishnuvardhan) used to live and how his enmity with Nagavalli has been going on since centuries. Suspecting each and every person in the family, Vijay starts to investigate everything, so he goes to the library to read a book based on Vijaya Rajendra Bahadur's life and further information on Nagavalli too. Suspecting Saraswathi, Sastry asks the family members to bring Saraswathi to the temple and that he will show everyone that Nagavalli is in Saraswathi's body, but as Saraswathi steps towards the temple, all the animals run out of the temple. On a few occasions, someone attempted to murder Sastry twice. It is then revealed that Saraswathi is still alive, but she became mad after the truck accident in which her husband died while he was carrying the painting of Nagavalli, and that she said that no one accepted to marry the second daughter Geetha because Saraswathi was mad, and so Geetha vowed that she would not marry, and since they did not want Gowri's situation to be like this, they lied by saying that Saraswathi was dead and locked her up in the outhouse. One night, Vijay goes to the outhouse as he heard anklet sounds, and he sees another smaller portrait of Nagavalli in the outhouse. Everyone is warned to not go to the outhouse or to the room where the painting is. All directions point to the huge portrait of Nagavalli, and it is observed that the portrait is the cause for this. Vijay ( Vishnuvardhan), a psychiatrist, to solve the problem. The father of the three daughters tells Sastry that Saraswathi and her husband met with a fatal accident and died, after the Bharatnatyam competition. The family members are psychologically affected by the presence of Nagavalli's painting, and things have not been going well in the house, so they decide to contact Acharya Ramchandra Shastry ( Avinash), an astrologer cum sage. Many strange incidents happen, so the family called for a snake charmer to the house, but the snake charmer died when he attempted to make the serpent appear. Meanwhile, on the engagement day of Gowri ( Sandhya), one of her friends fainted after encountering a 30-foot snake, and the bridegroom had run away from the family house fearing something. The painting is then sold off to a dance competition, which was distributed as a prize to Bharatanatyam dancer Saraswathi ( Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), her husband, and her family. The next day, the painter is shown to be dead under mysterious circumstances, possibly being a suicide. However, when his wife asks him to sell the painting, he becomes furious, saying that he would not sell it off even at the cost of his life. The painter brings it home so as to restore it back to its original look. The story starts off with an ancient painting of Nagavalli ( Vimala Raman) floating away to distant places, where it finally comes into the hands of a village painter.

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