When an
epidemic torments a village, the priests suggest people to conduct a fair and worship the goddess Ammoru. On the festival night, an old lady visits the premises and asks the women there for
prasadam, only one kind-natured young woman offers it. Later that night, the old lady visits the house of the young woman with a potion she made of
neem leaves and instructs her to sprinkle it in front of all the houses in the village to end the epidemic. The old lady promises to stay in the house until she returns. The woman leaves with the potion, but half way through remembers she did not provide food to the guest and returns to do so. When she returns and accidentally sees through the window, she finds the old lady sitting inside the house majestically as the goddess Ammoru. Realizing that old lady is the goddess herself and remembering the promise she made, the young woman hoping to keep the goddess there forever to protect the village and its people, commits suicide by jumping into a well. The goddess, now obliged to stay there permanently, turns into an idol, around which a temple gets built. Later, Bhavani, an ardent devotee of the goddess Ammoru, informs the police about Ghorakh, a sorcerer who kills a young girl by burying her alive, and gets him arrested. As an act of revenge, Ghorakh's sister Leelamma and her family torture Bhavani. In one of their attempts, Bhavani is married to Ghorakh's nephew Surya, a kind-hearted doctor. When Surya leaves for the USA on a business trip leaving his wife, Leelamma tries to kill Bhavani with the help of Leelamma's creditor. Goddess Ammoru then descends again, she kills Leelamma's creditor and takes the form of a little girl (Papa) to protect Bhavani. She tortures Leelamma, her husband, and her daughter in retaliation. Leelamma's servant realizes that Papa is Ammoru and stays loyal to her. When Surya returns to India after his American business, Leelamma alleges that Bhavani is involved in an illicit relationship by framing her with another man in their bedroom. But Papa switches Leelama's daughter in the place of Bhavani. The daughter is married off to that man by Ammoru. Meanwhile, Ghorakh is released from jail due to his
Epilepsy condition. But he remains unchanged and decides to take revenge against Bhavani who was responsible for his arrest. First, he tries to kill Bhavani by poisoning her food when she is pregnant. But goddess Ammoru, who is in the form of the Papa saves her and helps Bhavani give birth to a baby daughter. Ghorakh realizes that some form of virtuous spirit is making his power useless. He finds out that the little girl is goddess Ammoru who is obstructing his evil plans. Ghorakh tricks Bhavani to dismiss Papa. Bhavani states that she must not return unless she puts
Bottu(బొట్టు) on her forehead and asks her to come. Ghorakh then kills Bhavani's infant daughter and tortures Surya with the help of an evil spirit, Chanda. Bhavani prays to goddess Ammoru to save her, but the goddess cannot respond as Bhavani has not fulfilled the condition of her return. At last, Bhavani puts her hand on the goddess's trident and bleeds. Ghorakh pulls her in a bid to disrobe her, causing a few drops of Bhavani's blood to spill on the goddess' forehead making a
bottu which allows her to return. The goddess arrives in her fiercest form and kills Ghorakh. Surya and Bhavani realize that Papa was Ammoru all along. The goddess returns Bhavani's baby daughter (whom she saved from Ghorakh) to Bhavani and blesses them. ==Cast ==