Five filmmakers meet through Facebook and decide to go to an old bungalow to make a short film. However, unnatural events unfold as they start shooting the film.

Varathan (English: The Outsider) is an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language horror thriller film directed by Amal Neerad and co-produced by Nazriya Nazim. The film stars Fahadh Faasil and Aishwarya Lekshmi.

Three friends run a beachfront hotel leaving their jobs. Now their hotel is haunted by paranormal phenomenons. A cold reading psychic John Don Bosco enters their life and Clara's phantom realm to solve the troubling mystery.

Down on luck and depressed by constant failures in personal and professional life, Vijay is desperately in search of that single stroke of fortune that could turn his life around. But what if the power to rewrite his destiny lies within?