Circa 1800's a Jamindar (Prakash Raj) insults Durga Devi by stealing her idol within the temple in a state of intoxication.An enraged Devi kills him and places a curse on his heirs that she goes to take one member of the family every each 48 years. And one male inheritor dies unintentionally on the finish of each 48 years. And the current yr denotes finish of one other 48 years and now it is the flip of Murari (Mahesh Babu). In one other village, there lives Vasundhara (Sonali Bendre). She too lives with an enormous mixed household.Each the households of Murari and Vasundhara are releated by blood, however separated because of the household feuds.They each fall in love and these each households makes the formal association of marriage. However as soon as his grandmother, who returns from her Teerdha Yatra, upon being knowledgeable by the household poojari that Murari is the one who can be subjected to dying by Devi this yr, refuses for the wedding.