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-language horror film directed by George Kithu. The film is about a group of college friends who go into a haunted forest, with

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, Vikram,

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, Boban Alummoodan And

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appearing amongst others in the cast. It was dubbed and released in Tamil as ''Manthira Kottai'' in December 2000, shortly after the success of '' Sethu'', in which Vikram had featured.

Plot

A college group of anthropology students go to the remote forest are of Muthuvan Mala, under the oversight of Prof. Shankaranarayanan (Raghavan), in order to study the tribal life which had existed there. A student, Sunny (

), unknowingly unleashes the spirit of Neeli (

), who is a ghost seeking revenge against the Thripangod royal family, one of whom ( Devan) had killed her and her lover ( Vikram). Consequently, Neeli starts killing off the students one by one and the police call for sorcerer Vadakkedath Namboothiri (Prathapachandran) to be summoned.

Cast

as Neeli * Boban Alummoodan as Hari Varma * Vikram as Udhaya *

as Sunny *

as Sreedevi * Yadhu Krishnan as Vijay * Sharath Das as Anoop * Devan as Rajaraja Varma Thirumanas * Raghavan as Professor.Shankaranarayanan(Mahatma Gandhi University) *

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as Ravi Varma *

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as Muthassi * Geetha Nair as Hari Varma's mother *

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as Vadakkedath Namboothiri *

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as Prof. Joseph Erumeli *

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* Cochin Haneefa as C.I Theepori Veerabhadran * Azeez as Kittuni *

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as Hamsa * Yamuna * Mahima as Omana

Release

After release, a film critic noted that "It has a creditable screenplay which develops the vendetta plot convincingly". In December 2000, the film was dubbed and released in Tamil as ''Manthira Kottai'' to make most of Vikram's newfound fame following the success of '' Sethu'' (1999).

References

External links

* 2000s Malayalam-language films 2000 films Indian horror films 2000 horror films {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub