Somewhere in this choppy, chaotic enterprise is a film which wants to warn us about the evils of greed, and the importance of tradition. But it is basically yet another Sudheer Babu star vehicle, in which he romances, dances, and chases bad spirits away.

No horror movie fan should endure the sloppy and incoherent dreck that is Jatadhara. It's a badly acted and tedious jumble of nonsense about a ghost hunter whose family legacy is tied to Dhanapisachini (a female greed demon), with tacky visual effects.

A ghostly film without human presence.

It tries to be different, even if it loses its footing in over-the-top theatrics and forced emotion. What could have been an unsettling supernatural thriller ends up being a mixed bag: half compelling myth, half confused mayhem.