It tells the story of a typical Mumbai resident and a family of ghosts who help him to overcome the challenges of daily life.

The ghost family have no place to stay and hence make a request to become paying guests at Madhav's house.

Eventually, Madhavi begins to notice the presence of unseen people in her house and Madhav confesses the truth about the ghost family.

Films PVT LTD hosted private screenings on 28 May 2015 at Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Pune, and other cities.

Films then showed A Paying Ghost to some of the Marathi and Bollywood industry's filmmakers and actors in a first-look screening at the Fun Republic Theatre on 29 May 2015.

It was screened in the UK (London, Birmingham, Leicester, Slough, Manchester), Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Holland), United States (San Francisco, Richmond), Australia (Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne), New Zealand (Auckland) UAE (Dubai) and Singapore.