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This story begins at a place where an accident has happened. The girl (Unnati) narrowly escapes falling into the deep valley. But the man who was trying to save her ends up dying. Her friend’s (Ankita) dad saves her. After that incident, Unnati’s relationship with Ankita gets strained. Ankita holds her responsible for her father’s death. Unnati also has lives with that guilt for so many years.

After 7 years, they meet again at their friend’s birthday party. But they still haven’t forgotten that day. Ankita still holds Unnati responsible for that incident. Unnati tries her best to persuade her. But even then, she remains unwilling to forgive her. Unnati comes to Ankita carrying the sacred thread of God. But she refuses to wear it. At least wear it for your father’s sake, Unnati says, and upon hearing this, she puts on the thread on her wrist. After seeing all that, their friends Om, Sarthak, and Arpit decide to make a plan to patch things between them and bring them back together like they used to be. They invite Unnati and Ankita to go on a road trip with them, just like they used to go before.

Everything goes as per the plan. During the night, Sarthak arrives with his car. Everyone sets off for the trip, but they are unaware that the route they are taking is a haunted one. After having a bit of fun and joy during the journey, they start experiencing some strange events with them. That night, Om receives a call from his girlfriend, due to the network issue, he asks Sarthak to stop the car for a while and goes under a tree to answer the call. After the call ends, his friends tease him from behind. So, in anger, he stomps his foot on the ground and he suddenly flies away from that place with a strong push and falls down. Without telling anyone, anxiously, he comes and sits in the car. After some time, the songs in their car suddenly start changing on their own. Maybe suspecting a malfunction in the car’s music system, they choose to ignore this issue. But soon, even more peculiar things begin to escalate. After some time, they realize that their car is approaching the same place. They had wandered off the path on this deserted road. Suddenly Unnati hears the sound of a crying child. She also asks her friends, “Can you also hear this sound?”. But they respond that they aren’t able to hear any such sound. But gradually that sound starts increasing even more. Unnati notices a child who is crying in front of a car, she tells this to her friends too. Everyone gets off the car after seeing that child. After asking a lot, that kid tells them that he wants to go to his father who is in the house across the street. Perhaps this child might have also lost his way like us, thinking that they take immediately him to that house. After reaching that house, his father expresses gratitude towards them and says, “I have been searching for him since the evening.” He requests them to come into the house. Om asks that man, “We have lost our way here. Can you please help us find the way?” He replies, “If it’s in your destiny, this path will show you the way ahead, otherwise, it will lead straight to death!! Everyone gets startled by his talks. In that moment, Sarthak sees himself in the mirror in front of him that reflects everything, except for that little child and his father. Gradually they realize that something is strange in this house. Slowly, they start sensing fear, and all of a sudden, they jump up and run away from there. Just as they reach the car, that man and his child appear in front of them. Somehow, they manage to start the car and drive away from there at a very high speed. Everyone gets scared. They can’t grasp what is ultimately happening with them.

In the midst of all this, Unnati gives everyone the courage by saying that, “Guys, we will surely come out of all this. Just don’t be afraid and don’t lose courage’’. At this moment, Ankita feels as if someone is pulling her hair. She gets scared and tells her friends. Unnati tries to make her calm. Due to the wind, Ankita’s last photo with her hand flies out of her hand. She tells Sarthak to stop the car and asks everyone to search for the photo. As soon as Arpit peeks under the car to search for the photo, he sees a creepy, laughing man with blindfolded eyes. He gets very anxious and asks Sarthak to quickly start the car. At that very moment, Unnati notices Ankita’s father’s photo on the road. Arpit says, “Guys, forget about that photo, if we want to save our lives, we need to get out of here as soon as possible, otherwise, everyone will be killed”. But Unnati gathers the courage to go and pick up that photo. Just as she moves forward to grab the photo, the man with blindfolded eyes, whom Arpit had seen under the car, starts pulling her towards him. Despite being scared, she manages to free her hand somehow and runs towards car. As soon as she sits in the car, Sarthak accelerates the car quickly and zooms off at a rapid pace. When they look towards the car window, they see that creepy blindfolded

man. The car window suddenly starts moving up and down. That man tries to grab Ankita’s hand who is sitting towards the window. The man vanishes into thin air as soon as he grabs Ankita’s hand. Ankita realizes that this happened because of the sacred thread that Unnati had given her. From that moment on, all the anger and frustration Ankita felts towards Unnati just melts away. But fate has something else written in it.

Sarthak suddenly loses control of the car. The car starts heading towards the deep pit ahead. Sarthak realizes that the car’s brakes have failed and he tells everyone to exit the car by any means possible. Everyone opens the car’s door and jumps out of the car. But after falling out of the car, Ankita’s foot slips, and she slowly starts moving towards the deep valley. Upon seeing this, Unnati immediately runs after her. As soon as Ankita falls into the valley, Unnati quickly reaches out and grabs her hand and she pulls her up from the valley. After coming up, Ankita tightly wraps her arms around Unnati. And she asks for heartfelt forgiveness for her behavior towards her over the years. Om, Arpit and Sarthak also arrive there.

Arpit asks Ankita: Are you alright?

Ankita: I am completely fine because Unnati saved me. I was about to fall into a deep valley but she held my hand and pulled me up. Just like my father came to rescue her, she did the same for me. The more I show my gratitude to her, the more I realize words aren’t enough.

Om and Arpit: But where is Unnati?

Ankita: Can’t you see her? She is sitting next to me.

Om: What are you saying? No one is sitting next to you.

(Seeing his friends in such a helpless state, Sarthak cries and says,)

Sarthak: Unnati is not here. When we fell out of the car, she immediately tumbled into the valley after opening the door.

Sarthak: What rubbish are you talking? When I was about to fall into the valley, she pulled me up and saved me.

Sarthak: Ankita, trust me. When I fell out of the car, I fainted, but in that state, I saw you climbing out of the valley with the help of a boulder. This could be your illusion.

At the end, Ankita bursts into the tears and realizes that the Unnati whom I have been badmouthing for years is the one who saved my life today, and now she’s no longer alive.

(As the next morning arrives, everyone comes to know from the local people that there was a boy in a family who was always in a drunken state, which eventually led him to lose his mental balance. And he would launch deadly attacks on his family members. One day, his family decides in compulsion that if he remains alive, he can take someone’s life. He shouldn’t stay alive. So, they blindfold him, take him to the road, leave him alone with a wrap around his eyes, and speed up a car towards him to kill him. Seeing this, a man runs to save him, his child also follows his father. The car ends up hitting all three of them. The boy’s family then buries the three of them under a tree by the side of that road.)

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