India, Sept. 19 -- Magic is woven into the everyday, in Jugnuma: The Fable.

Each strange twist also hints at a hidden truth.

What if fairy tales were true? How would the dark realities of such an unpredictable world unfold? Exploitation, violence and malevolence shape-shift, asking: Did you just see what you think you saw?

Lines blur. Fires burn. Memory becomes more uncertain than myth.

Fairies may be wreaking havoc, stuck in the wrong dimension.

"I wanted to tell a story that was driven by poetic suspense," says Raam Reddy, 36.

Set in 1989, his film builds itself around Dev (Manoj Bajpayee), who owns a large apple orchard in the Himalayan foothills. He inherits a picture-perfect world. Then his trees start to burn. At first, a few ...