''Diary'' is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language psychological thriller film directed by Machakanti Ramakrishna and starring Sivaji and

Shraddha Das Shraddha Das is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Telugu and Hindi films. She made her acting debut in the 2008 Telugu film '' Siddu from Sikakulam'', and since then has worked across six different film industries through ...

in lead roles. The film is marketed as a sequel to ''Mantra'' (2007), but the two films are unrelated.

Plot

Vamsi purchases a used, fully-furnished beach house in

Vizag Visakhapatnam (; List of renamed places in India, formerly known as Vizagapatam, and also referred to as Vizag, Visakha, and Waltair) is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the States and union territories of India, Indian stat ...

from a real estate dealer. One night, he saves a dancing girl named Maya from a goon at a local gathering. Due to heavy rain, Maya stays at Vamsi's house. While exploring the house, they discover a diary dated 2002, written by the previous owner. The diary reveals that the owner's wife was killed, and her spirit is rumoured to haunt the house. As the events from the diary begin to unfold, Vamsi and Maya find themselves entangled in the mystery. The story follows their journey to uncover the truth behind the house's dark past.

Cast

* Sivaji as Vamsi *

as Maya *Dr Sivaprasad as Kanchu Kanakayya alias KK *Chinnikrishna as Vamsi's driver * Jeeva as Maya's molester *Sridhara Rao as Albert *Mousami Udeshi as Mona * Yandamuri Veerendranath as Sastry (

cameo appearance A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking on ...

) *

Harsha Vardhan Harsha Vardhan is an Indian actor and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema, Telugu films and television shows. He has also worked in a few Tamil cinema, Tamil films. He is known for his performance in television shows such as ''Ruthuragalu ...

as Police officer

Production

The film was promoted as a sequel to ''

Mantra A mantra ( ; Pali: ''mantra'') or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) belie ...

'' (2007) although it is not.

Music

The music was composed by ''Mantra'' Anand.

Reception

Jeevi of '' Idlebrain.com'' rated the film 2.5/5 and wrote, "Though there are a few chilling moments in the movie, logic-less climax and slack second half work against the movie".

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