Kanchana represents a specific era where filmmakers realized that the audience didn't want to be scared or laugh—they wanted to scream and laugh at the same time. It is a film made for the single-screen audience that eats popcorn with their hands and whistles when the hero kicks a villain.
The film follows (played by Lawrence), a young man who is pathologically afraid of ghosts and refuses to step outside after dark. His life takes a terrifying turn when he and his friends accidentally disturb a burial ground while playing cricket.
To prove he is brave, Raghava’s friends force him to stay in a haunted graveyard. Bad idea. He gets possessed by the spirit of Kanchana , a vengeful, mute female ghost with a tragic backstory involving a feudal lord, a transgressive love story, and a brutal honor killing.