Zapatlela 2

Zapatlela 2
Directed by	Mahesh Kothare
Produced by	Mahesh Kothare Adinath Kothare Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Written by	Mahesh Kothare Ashok Patole (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Ashok Patole Mahesh Kothare
Story by	Mahesh Kothare
Starring	Adinath Kothare Sonalee Kulkarni Sai Tamhankar Makarand Anaspure Madhu Kambikar
Music by	Avdhoot Gupte
Cinematography	Suresh Deshmane
Edited by	Shashank Shah
Production company	Kothare and Kothare Vision Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Distributed by	Viacom 18 Motion Pictures Moving Pictures
Release date	June 7, 2013 (2013-06-07)
Running time	175 minutes
Country	India
Language	Marathi
Budget	₹45 million (US$670,000)
Box office	₹110 million (US$1.6 million)

Zapatlela 2 (झपाटलेला २) is a Marathi horror comedy movie, which was released in 3D on 7 June 2013. It is directed by Mahesh Kothare and is the sequel to Zapatlela, released 20 years previously (in 1993).Zapatlela 2 is the first Marathi film shot entirely with a 3D camera.

The film marks the comeback of the renowned ventriloquist Ramdas Padhye along with his famous evil puppet Tatya Vinchu. Though Padhye claims that the sequel had higher challenges in presenting the puppet, he also admits that advanced VFX helped in taking the puppet to the next level.

Mahesh has stated that if the film did well, it would be dubbed into Hindi and a third movie in the series could be made.

The film opens within the mansion of Baba Chamatkar (Raghvendra Kadkol). Kubdya Khavis has escaped from the prison and secured the doll containing the soul of gangster Tatya Vinchu (shown in prequel Zapatlela) and orders Baba Chamatkar to revive Tatya Vinchu again. He admits that the diamonds worth 5 crore which are now worth 50 crores were stolen by him and Tatya but only Tatya knows its location. He plans to sap all the information and kill Tatya again. He also offers Baba half of the cost of diamonds in return for reviving Tatya. However, Baba refuses to commit the same mistake again. Infuriated, Kubdya tries to kill him using a trishul (a weapon which looks like a trident). However, Baba uses the same weapon to kill him. A drop of Kubdya's blood is accidentally transferred towards the doll, which resuscitates Tatya Vinchu. Tatya confronts Baba Chamatkar and forces him to tell how to migrate to a human form. Baba resists in the beginning and then falls unconscious. Tatya finds a book named 'Om Fat Swaha' and discovers that, to migrate to a human form, the victim (Tatya) must make use of the Mrutyunjaya Mantra on the person to whom he has confessed his true name. But now that the person (Lakshya, portrayed by Laxmikant Berde in Zapatlela) is dead, the same mantra can be used on his son. Tatya vows to find Lakshya's son and migrate into his body.