Aval (2017 film)

Aval
Aval
	File:The House Next Door - Poster.jpg Poster of Hindi version
Directed by	Milind Rau
Produced by	Siddharth
Written by	Milind Rau; Siddharth (dialogues) and Keshava
Starring	Siddharth; Andrea Jeremiah
Music by	Girishh G.
Cinematography	Shreyaas Krishna
Edited by	Lawrence Kishore
Production; company	Viacom 18 Motion Pictures; Etaki Entertainment
Distributed by	Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date	3 November 2017; (Tamil) 10 November 2017; (Hindi) 17 November 2017; (Telugu)
Running time	137 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi; Tamil; Telugu

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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.The satellite rights of the film is sold to Colors Tamil.^[1]

Plot[edit]

The movie starts with a series of incidents of a happy life of mom and a daughter back in 1934. At present Dr. Krishnakanth Acharya / Krish (Siddharth), a successful brain surgeon, and his 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 where the mother and the daughter lived in 1934.

Jennifer D'Costa / Jenny (Anisha Angelina Victor) is a troubled teenager and neighbour of Krish and Lakshmi. Losing her mother at the young age, she has turned out to be 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 halfsister Sarah.

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. Jenny starts to act weird soon her family moves in the house. So, Jenny's father Paul D'Costa (Atul Kulkarni) with Krish's recommendation contacts Dr Prasad (Suresh). And a series of paranormal incidents abound that affects the lives of the people around her. Jennifer's new house is haunted by three ancient Chinese spirits, and one of them is a man and he is bloodthirsty while the other two spirits are the mom and the daughter who helps the family to get out of the house without trouble. 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[edit]

Siddharth as Dr. Krishnakanth Acharya "Krish"
Andrea Jeremiah as Lakshmi Acharya
Anisha Angelina Victor as Jennifer "Jenny" D'Cousta
Atul Kulkarni as Paul D'Cousta, Jenny’s father
Suresh as Dr. Prasad
Avinash Raghudevan as Psychic
Prakash Belawadi as Pastor Joshua
Bhawana Aneja as Lizzy D'Cousta, Jenny’s stepmother
Deeraj Vaidy as Krish's Friend
Khushi Hajare as Sarah D'Cousta, Jenny’s half sister
Yusuf Hussein as Colonel D'Cousta, Jenny’s grandfather

Production[edit]

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 2016, Andrea Jeremiah revealed that the shoot of the film was over.^[3]

Music[edit]

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

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]

[1] "Aval movie review: The Siddharth and Andrea Jeremiah starrer will test your immunity to horror films". 3 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.

[Andrea_and_Sid_to_team_up_for_a_trilingual_film-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] ttps://www.jiosaavn.com/album/the-house-next-door/zzeC-DfGtCU_

[5] ttps://www.jiosaavn.com/album/gruham/T1IJtUGepKk_

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