Mangalavaaram

Tuesday) is a 2023 Indian Telugu-language erotic psychological mystery thriller film written and directed by Ajay Bhupathi.

The film features an ensemble cast including Payal Rajput, Nandita Swetha, Priyadarshi Pulikonda, Divya Pillai, Ajmal Ameer, Chaitanya Krishna, and Ravindra Vijay.

[4][5] Set in 1996, four strange suicides occur in the rural town of Mahalakshmipuram, with someone writing confessions of illicit affairs between the victims on random walls every Tuesday.

Due to these circumstances, she loses control of her sexual desires, forcing her to make rash judgments and engage in sex with random men in the village.

One night, Viswanatham accidentally meets her, and after knowing her situation, he decides to take care of her like his late daughter while not being bothered by the villager's gossip.

First feigning ignorance, she later stabs him, who then pushes her off the terrace and immolates her using kerosene and stages it as a sacrifice by herself to their village god Maalachamma for stopping the suicides.

Viswanatham questions Prakasam about why he made his wife good in front of the villagers, for which he explains that he did it to protect human values and morals, although being an atheist himself.

Then Viswanatham reveals that he and Ravi got to know about Sailaja's death through Puli, Kaasi Raju's blind assistant in a gossiping gang.

It was released on 17 November 2023, with dubbed versions in four Indian languages:[4][5] Mangalavaara in Kannada, Mangalavaar in Hindi, Chevvaikizhamai in Tamil and Chovvazhcha in Malayalam.