Aval (2017 film)

Aval (transl. Her) in Tamil, Gruham (transl. Home) in Telugu, and The House Next Door in Hindi, is a 2017 Indian horror film co-written and directed by Milind Rau. Shot simultaneously in the three languages, the film stars Siddharth and Andrea Jeremiah in lead roles, with Siddharth also working on the film as a co-producer and a co-writer. The film was released on 3 November 2017 to mostly positive reviews in all languages and became a success.[1]

Aval
Poster of Hindi version
Directed byMilind Rau
Produced bySiddharth
Written byMilind Rau
Siddharth
StarringSiddharth
Andrea Jeremiah
Music byGirishh G.
CinematographyShreyaas Krishna
Edited byLawrence Kishore
Production
company
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Etaki Entertainment
Distributed byViacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 3 November 2017 (2017-11-03)
(Tamil)
  • 10 November 2017 (2017-11-10)
(Hindi)
  • 17 November 2017 (2017-11-17)
(Telugu)
Running time
137 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Tamil
Telugu

Plot

Dr. Krishna (Siddharth), a successful brain surgeon, and his beautiful wife Lakshmi (Andrea Jeremiah) live peacefully in their beautiful house under the mountains. Their perfect life together is now disturbed after a family moves into the house next door.

Jennifer (Anisha Angelina Victor) is a troubled teenager and neighbour of Krishna and Lakshmi. Losing her mother at the young age, she has turned out to a rebel. While she doesn’t despise her caring stepmother, she never misses a chance to throw tantrums at her either. But, she loves her stepsister Sara.

Jennifer’s rebellious nature makes her do things like smoking for example. During one such time when she sneaks out of the house for a smoke, she picks up some belongings of a dead person. And a series of paranormal incidents abound that affects the lives of the people around her. Jennifer’s new house is haunted by ancient spirits, and one of them is bloodthirsty. Aval is not just a conventional humans vs devil narration. It has an angle of good spirits vs bad spirits and how the living suffer as they are jammed between this supernatural tug-of-war.

Cast

Production

The film was planned by Siddharth in June 2016, who revealed that he would work on a horror film alongside actress Andrea Jeremiah to be directed by Milind Rau, who had earlier made the unreleased Kadhal 2 Kalyanam. The title of the film was said to be The House Next Door, and the film was subsequently shot simultaneously in three languages.[2] The principal photography of the film commenced in August 2016.

In October 2017, Andrea Jeremiah revealed that the shoot of the film was over.[3]

Music
Aval (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
No. Title Writer(s) Singer(s) Length
1. "Kaarigai Kanne" Muthamil Vijay Prakash, Shakthisree Gopalan 5:20
2. "Yaarada" Andrea Jeremiah, Mark Thomas 4:25
3. "Xiao Xiao Ma" Chen-Yu Maglin, Poorna M 2:25
4. "Aval Theme" Instrumental 1:54
Hindi tracklist[4]
  • "O Mere Sanam" - Benny Dayal
  • "Ye Waqt Maut Ka Hai" - Suraj Jagan, Shilpa Natarajan
Telugu tracklist[5]
  • "Kaatukka Kanne" - Sathyaprakash, Chinmayi
  • "Yevadura" - Shilpa Natrajan, Mark Thomas
  • "Xiao Xiao Ma" - Chen-Yu Maglin, Poorna M

See also
  • List of Hindi horror films

References
  1. "Aval movie review: The Siddharth and Andrea Jeremiah starrer will test your immunity to horror films". 3 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. "Andrea and Sid to team up for a trilingual film". The Times of India. 12 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  3. "Andrea Jeremiah Finishes The House Next Door Shoot; Talks about Taramani, and its Portrayal of Relationships". 21 October 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  4. https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/the-house-next-door/zzeC-DfGtCU_
  5. https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/gruham/T1IJtUGepKk_
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