Mummy (2016 film)


Mummy, also known as Mummy - Save Me, is a 2016 Indian Kannada language supernatural horror film starring Priyanka Upendra, written and directed by Lohith H. The Kannada film is produced by K Ravikumar under KRK Productions and distributed by Horizon Studio. The film was dubbed in Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil as Chinnari, Mummy, and Mummy - Save Me, respectively.

Plot

It is an emotional horror film which revolves around a seven months pregnant mother Priya and her six-year-old daughter Kriya. A family moves from Bangalore to Goa after the death of Priya's husband. They move to a large villa where the family starts to experience strange things. Kriya is badly affected by her dad's death. Kriya's dad brought her a doll as gift for her before dying. Kriya starts to speak with the doll and considers the doll as her friend. Priya is upset and sad due to her husband's death and due to this she is unable to spend time with Kriya. Kriya starts to become stubborn and gets sad as mother is not spending some quality time with her. Kriya sees the ghost for the first time and gets scared, she starts to cry and shout and she is also seen speaking with ghost. Seeing Kriya speaking alone and due to her behavior Priya gets tensed and consults a doctor. Doctor suggests Priya to spend time with Kriya. Priya and Kriya together spend time, they go out and enjoy. Priya experiences the same as Kriya, she sees the ghost. One day the doctor whom Priya consulted calls her and informs that her daughter Kriya is speaking with someone in really whom no one except Kriya can see, the doctor sends a psychiatrist to Priya's villa. The same day Priya gets hurt and even Kriya gets hurt. The family members get them to hospital where the Priest comes to meet Priya and tells them the story behind the ghost.
The ghost's name is Kumari who was an orphan, she marries a rich man and stays happy with him. Even after eight years of marriage Kumari was not blessed with a baby so her in-laws and elders decides to marry her husband to another woman. Kumari gets upset by this, but soon Kumari gets pregnant. When she was seven months pregnant she and her husband decides to visit a temple, while coming back they meet with an accident and they both die. Kumari always wanted a child and her wish was incomplete so she becomes an evil spirit and roams around the road where her accident happened. Knowing Kumari's evilness, a lady from Kerala captures Kumari and ties her in the forest. After 48 years a boy gets possessed by Kumari and he starts to behave like her. The boy's mother calls a pandit who captures the ghost but it was unsuccessful because the pandit dies and the spirit of Kumari enters a doll which is now with Kriya.
Kumari forcefully takes Kriya to the villa from hospital. Priya and others also go into the villa. Everyone gets hit by Kumari. Kumari starts to drag Kriya to take her with her and Priya doesn't allow her to do so. Priya begs her to leave her child and even Kriya says that she wants to stay with her mother and doesn't like Kumari. Hearing this Kumari leaves Kriya's hand and her spirit gets into ash.
After six months, Kriya leaves for school and bids farewell to Priya. While leaving the house, Kriya is playing with Kumari again.

Cast

The trailer of Mummy was launched on 30 June 2016 at ETA Mall, Bengaluru, the grand event was graced by her husband Realstar Upendra and actress Tara.