1920: HORRORS OF THE HEART is the story of a woman avenging her father’s death. Meghna (Avika Gor) lives in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) with her father Dheeraj (Randheer Rai). Her mother Radhika (Barkha Bisht) Thakur left Dheeraj when Meghna was young. Radhika is in love with Arjun (Danish Pandor) and… is planning to marry him. A day before her birthday, Dheeraj dies by suicide. Meghna is devastated. A day after his demise, she finds a book written by him. It mentions that Radhika despised Dheeraj as he was poor. It further states that she started sleeping with Britishers for money as she wanted to be rich. One day, she poisons Dheeraj. Dheeraj survives but it causes irreparable damage to his body. Radhika leaves Dheeraj and Meghna behind. She marries the very rich Shantanu Thakur (Rahul Dev) and settles with him in his mansion at Kosha Hills. Meghna is enraged and wants to take revenge from her mother. This is when Dheeraj’s spirit emerges. He tells Meghna that he’ll help her in exacting revenge. Meghna heads to Kosha Hills and meets Shantanu. Radhika feels ashamed to meet Meghna and refuses to see her. But Shantanu and Radhika’s daughter Aditi (Ketaki Kulkarni) develops a fondness for Meghna. Meanwhile, Dheeraj instructs Meghna to target Aditi to avenge his death and humiliation. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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