

Later, Lakshya and Parubai's landlord Dhanajirao Dhanavate is insulted when Lakshya publicly makes fun of him via puppetry. However, Lakshya believes that the doll is battery powered due to the fact that it is made in a foreign country. He reveals to Lakshya that he is not a doll, but Tatya Vinchu. The doll happens to be the same one in which Tatya Vinchu's soul is trapped. Through the courier, Gauri sends Lakshya a doll as a gift from the US. Lakshya's girlfriend is Aavadi ( Pooja Pawar) whose father Constable Tukaram ( Ravindra Berde) has fixed her marriage when Constable Sakharam ( Vijay Chavan) against her wishes. Gauri's cousin brother Laxmikant Bolke alias Lakshya ( Laxmikant Berde) is a shopkeeper and a talented ventriloquist living with his mother Parubai ( Madhu Kambikar) in Shrirangpur. His daughter Gauri ( Kishori Ambiye) returns to India from the US for pursuing PhD in criminal psychology. Meanwhile, Mahesh's employer Superintendent Jairam Ghatge ( Jairam Kulkarni) gets transferred to the village of Shrirangpur, Maharashtra. Kubdya Khavis is arrested and Mahesh and the police believe that Tatya Vinchu is dead. Before he dies, Tatya Vinchu transfers his soul into a ventriloquism doll lying nearby. Mahesh finds them over there and shoots down Tatya Vinchu fatally. On the same night, Mahesh raids his warehouse and gives chase until Tatya Vinchu and Kubdya Khavis hide in a post office. CID Inspector Mahesh Jadhav ( Mahesh Kothare) is a respected police officer who is working on his attempts at nabbing Tatya Vinchu. Upon being threatened by Tatya Vinchu, Baba Chamatkar fearfully gives him out the mantra. The film begins in Mumbai with the powerful criminal Tatya Vinchu ( Dilip Prabhavalkar) and his henchman Kubdya Khavis ( Bipin Varti) approaching the cave of a wizard named Baba Chamatkar ( Raghavendra Kadkol) at night in search for Mrutyunjay Mantra (a voodoo spell that can transfer the chanter's soul into a living or non-living object).

The haunted doll proceeds to murder people, but an innocent man is blamed for its crimes.

When the criminal is killed in a police shooting, the only body available to him is a ventriloquist's doll. In the film, a ruthless criminal intimidates a wizard into teaching him a magical spell which can transfer one's soul to other bodies or objects. This film was dubbed in Hindi as Khilona Bana Khalnayak. Ramdas Padhye, a ventriloquist and puppeteer created the practical effects involving the evil doll Tatya Vinchu. The film was an adaptation of 1988 Hollywood movie Child's Play. The film was followed by a sequel Zapatlela 2 released 20 years later in 2013. The film stars an ensemble cast of Laxmikant Berde, Mahesh Kothare, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Pooja Pawar, Kishori Ambiye, Jairam Kulkarni, Bipin Varti and Raghavendra Kadkol. Possessed) is a 1993 Indian Marathi-language horror comedy film directed by Mahesh Kothare.
