“Chhaya Ka Hisaab” unfolds in real time during a village search for a missing boy. A cursed banyan tree is said to claim shadows. The boy’s father realizes his own shadow is gone, replaced near the tree. His past guilt—linked to a child’s old death—is exposed. The ghost doesn’t take the boy; it takes the father’s identity through his shadow.

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