Dhayam

Eight candidates enter a windowless hall as the company rep explains the lethal premise: only the last sane survivor after one hour will become CEO. The clock on the wall starts, and a grim game of trust and paranoia begins. The tension mixes corporate formality with a sense of impending danger.

The villain starts mocking everyone and pressures the tall guy to remove his mask, which he refuses. The room grows uneasy as accusations fly and alliances form and fracture. The countdown to the first blackout looms in the background.

After ten minutes the lights cut out, plunging the room into darkness. When they return, the tall man is found hanged from the ceiling, a chilling sign that danger is real. The others brace themselves for a threat beyond the supernatural legend.

The clairvoyant laughs hysterically and claims he can see ghosts, insisting he reacts to their presence. The group grows more unsettled as the line between superstition and reality blurs. His strange ability becomes a potential lifeline or a liability.

Ten minutes later, the clairvoyant is killed with a swift cut, and fear spreads among the survivors. Soon after, the coward dies, cutting down another potential ally and intensifying distrust. The remaining group realizes the threat is human as well as metaphysical.

Suspicions center on the villain, and the smart guy confronts him, knocking him unconscious. The others watch as the power dynamics shift and the group attempts to maintain some control over the spiraling situation.

The supposed killer wakes up and reveals he is a clone of the smart guy, a shocking deception aimed at sowing chaos. The smart guy shoots him with a gun hidden in a wall cavity, ending the clone’s threat. The villain’s confession exposes a larger conspiracy: he serves the lady in the saree suit.

The clone’s truth is used to justify the assistant’s claim of being the lady’s accomplice. She orders the killer to eliminate the remaining two women. This marks a brutal turn from a haunted-house premise to a human-decision-driven massacre.

The assassin targets the girl in jeans, delivering a brutal kill that reinforces the lethal reality behind the interview. The group’s fragile alliance frays further as more violence erupts. Suspicion and fear drive the survivors toward desperate decisions.

The smart guy kills the lady in the suit and the villain, leaving only the saree-clad woman and himself. The two survivors admit a romantic connection, complicating who deserves to be CEO and what loyalty means in this killing game.

The saree-clad woman and the smart guy are revealed to be a couple; he intends to sacrifice himself so she becomes CEO, but she stabs herself and dies first. He then prepares to end his own life as the countdown ticks toward zero. The room holds its breath as the outcome seems written in tragedy.

One hour passes and the door opens, revealing the smart guy as Ashwin, the company’s CEO who is actually suffering from multiple personality disorder. The other seven people were his imagination, and the ‘treatment’ was an attempt to purge his personalities. The eighth personality, the doctor, has taken over, ending with Ashwin’s chilling, final laugh.