''Aduthathu'' ( Next) is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by

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. The film stars

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, Aarthi and

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. The movie is based on

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's mystery novel ''

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''. There was a controversy that the 2015 Kannada movie ''

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'' is the remake of the film. At this point of time, the team of Aatagara arranged a special screening of the movie for Thakkali Srinivasan in Bangalore. Srinivasan clarified that it is not a remake of his film. He also praised Aatagara of being an extremely well made film. He also revealed that he had made a serial inspired from Agatha Christe's novel ''And Then There Were None'' in 1995. Later he made the film ''Aduthathu'' inspired by the same. For both these, Kannan Parameshwaran worked on the story. Kannan also wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for ''Aatagara'' inspired by the same novel. Srinivasan had said that anything similar was to the novel and not his film.

Cast

as Prathap *

* Aarthi *

*Darshini *

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*Vivek Anand *Chandru *Aruna *Sundari

Reception

A critic from ''Behindwoods'' wrote that "''Aduthathu'' is a movie that wants to ride on suspense throughout. It does quite well in that respect, but the script gets its timing wrong when it comes to unravelling the suspense and that is a major drawback".

References

Indian thriller films Films based on And Then There Were None Films set on uninhabited islands 2010s Tamil-language films 2011 thriller films 2011 films {{2010s-thriller-film-stub