Tulasi Dalam

Tulasi Dalam Telugu తలసదళ English Basil Leaf is a Telugu thriller novel written by Yandamuri Veerendranath It was published in Andhra Bhoomi weekly in 1980 as a serial and got tremendous popularity It was republished many times as a paperback and sold approximately 50000 copies It was one of the initial novels of Yandamuri that became popular and he was appreciated widely for his narrating style It was partially inspired by the 1971 bestselling novel The Exorcist Tulasi Dalam was first adapted into a 1985 Kannada movie titled Thulasidala and later in Telugu as Tulasidalam 1989in Hindi as Phoonk 2008 and its remake in Telugu as Raksha 2008In 1986 a story based on this novel called Kashmora was filmed for which Yendamuri Verendranath has worked as writer