''Iruttu'' () is a 2019 Indian
supernatural horror film
Supernatural horror film is a film genre that combines aspects of horror film and supernatural film. Supernatural occurrences in such films often include ghosts and demons, and many supernatural horror films have elements of religion. Common them ...
written and directed by
V. Z. Durai
V. Z. Durai (born Peer Moideen) is an Indian film director who has worked in the Tamil film industry.
Film career 2000-2010
Durai eventually approached S. S. Chakravarthy to make the film '' Mugavaree'' (2000) with Ajith Kumar. As Durai had ...
. It stars
Sundar C.,
Sakshi Choudhary
Sakshi Chaudhary, born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India is an Indian model and film actress. Sakshi primarily appears in Telugu movies, starting with '' Potugadu'' (2013).
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and
Dhansika the lead roles; and
Vimala Raman
Vimala Raman is an Australian actress and former model who has worked in Indian cinema. She appears in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil language films. Born and brought up in Australia, she made her debut in 2006 with the Tamil film ''Poi''. An esta ...
,
VTV Ganesh
Ganesh Janardhanan, also known by his stage name VTV Ganesh is an Indian actor, comedian and film producer. He is best known for his hoarse voice, and his appearances in films featuring Silambarasan. He had made his debut in Tamil movie ''Red'' ...
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Yogi Babu
Yogi Babu (born 22 July 1985) is an Indian actor and comedian, who appears in Tamil films. A three time Ananda Vikatan Cinema Award winner, he performed in '' Aandavan Kattalai'' (2016), ''Kolamavu Kokila'' (2018) and ''Pariyerum Perumal'' (20 ...
, and
Manasvi Kottachi
Manasvi Kottachi is an Indian Child actress who works in Tamil and Malayalam films.
Career
Manasvi Kottachi debuted with '' Imaikkaa Nodigal'' (2018) playing Nayanthara's daughter, garnering high popularity before starring in '' Suttu Pidikka ...
in supporting roles.
Girishh G. composed the film's music and cinematography was handled by E. Krishnasamy. The film had its theatrical release on 6 December 2019 and opened to generally mixed-to-positive reviews. It was later dubbed in
Hindi
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and released under the title ''Qatil Saya''.
Plot
In Hillstation Sigapurahali at noon, a black figure is seen walking. Suddenly the hill and the village go dark. Six men are killed by an unseen force in hora grass, by termite attack and snake bite. Police arrive to investigate. Officer Palraj explains to a superior officer there are no traces of evidence at the scene of the killings.
All the victims' neck bones have been shattered but there are no signs of a handprint or murder weapon. They all died within of each other at the exact same time. Palraj continues to investigate the crime scene; he seems to find a clue and asks requests Constable Kulandaisamy to hurry to the SP Office to discuss it further. When Constable Kulandaisamy arrives at the SP Office, he finds a woman trying to immolate herself. Kulandaisam and the female constables calm down the woman. At that moment, ominous chanting and whispering sounds are heard. Palraj immolates himself and his charred body howls.
Police officer Chezhiyan (
Sundar C.) along with his wife Regina (
Sakshi Choudhary
Sakshi Chaudhary, born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India is an Indian model and film actress. Sakshi primarily appears in Telugu movies, starting with '' Potugadu'' (2013).
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) and daughter Diya (
Manasvi Kottachi
Manasvi Kottachi is an Indian Child actress who works in Tamil and Malayalam films.
Career
Manasvi Kottachi debuted with '' Imaikkaa Nodigal'' (2018) playing Nayanthara's daughter, garnering high popularity before starring in '' Suttu Pidikka ...
), relocate to the hill station. On the way, the family have a picnic. Their pet dog Danny runs into the forest. Chezhiyan finds Danny but Regina feels this is a bad omen for a new start.
Chezhiyan and his family encounter bizarre events. Constable Kulandaisamy helps the family to settle down in a rented house. Chezhiyan notes all of the windows and furniture are made entirely of steel; Kulandaisamy states this is because wooden items were all destroyed by termites. Diya explores the new house and find a large mirror covered in cloth. While checking the reflection, Diya senses a cloth-covered mannequin is moving. As Regina starts preparing a meal, she hears a tapping noise and scolds Diya to stop making it. She finds the noise is coming from the window; she opens it and hundreds of crows crowd their window, scaring them both. During dinner, Regina shares her fear the house might be haunted, to which Cheziyan makes fun of her and states he was given a tough case to solve and that, if he is successful, it will help him get promoted.
Constable Kulandaisamy returns to the police station, where he receives a phone call in which a woman cries for help and calls his name. He learns the phone had been out of order for the past two days and discusses the incident with his colleagues. The entire station experiences power outages and the out-of-order phones start ringing. They all see the shady face of a woman in the windows and scream.
Panicked, they call to Chezhiyan. Chezhiyan and Regina try to have sex and see an old man in rags standing outside their window. The old man will not talk but one of his constables arrives and states the old man is harmless and mentally unwell. Chezhiyan returns to his wife when he gets Kulandaisamy's call for help. He reluctantly leaves for the station to check on his distressed colleagues. In his absence, Regina becomes disturbed when he music system randomly plays music. She unplugs it and turns it around but it plugs itself back in and starts playing music again. Regina tries to sleep but Diya stands at the end of the bed, jumping on her and biting off her neck. Regina wakes up screaming to realize it was a dream.
Chezhiyan calms his colleagues and calls the telephone department to trace the call. In the morning, he gathers information about the killings with the help of Kulandaisamy. He finds the Hillstation has a peculiar name ''Sigarpurhali'' of Arabic origin; it is believed to be an ancient Arabic settlement where Arabs used to practice magic. Kulandaisamy also states an Arabic magic practitioner lives alone atop of the hill and is often seen with the ragged old man. Chezhiyan wishes to meet him while Kulandaisamy warns him not to. The practitioner is seen praying and chanting but leaves his home when Cheziyan comes to investigate. On his way home, he sees the magician pouring powder on the road. Cheziyan chases the magician into the forest but he disappears. A ghostly hand tries to reach out and grab him but retreats as he turns.
Cheziyan returns home and is seduced by Regina. After having sex with her, he searches for his phone to find missed calls from Kulandai. When he calls back, news reports stating a panic call to the station had come from his home's landline, leaving him confused because he was home at the time. Immediately, he gets a call from Regina's mobile. He answers it and finds Regina left early from home to drop the child at school and go shopping. He is even more baffled as moments ago, he had sex with Regina. He confirms the caller was Regina by making a video call. He visits the supermarket, cross-checks the CCTV and confirms that Regina was not with him at home that morning. He discusses his worries with Kulandai and then corners the magician outside his home. As he confronts the magician, the magician knows the black woman has entered Cheziyan's home and warns him she is Sila and is not of this world or human. The Magician needs to chant prayers 4,440 times before dawn to keep her at bay.
Meanwhile, Regina gets to school to pick up Diya; they discuss school events when Diya realizes she is alone and turns back to see Sila in black. As she enquires about her mother, Sila bends down to lick Diya's cheeks. At the moment, the real Regina parks her car and goes in search of Diya. Again the Hill plunges into darkness, panicking them all. Cheziyan gets the help of his Muslim colleague and gets in touch with Muslim high priest to know the prayer times. Hysterical, Regina calls Cheziyan to tell him Diya is petrified and has odd rashes on her body, and demands he go to the hospital right then. Cheziyan reaches the hospital to find Regina in tears and Diya in pain. As the doctor treats her, she gets a call from home and attends it, only to hear the hysterical voice of Regina relating Diya's rashes when she is standing in front of him. He decides he would keep Regina and Diya in hospital safely and investigate the imposter Regina but they accompany him home. While Regina puts Diya to bed and changes clothes, Sila watches them, roams the house and sniffs Cheziyan's scent. Cheziyan realizes Sila's presence by the movement of his leather jacket. Regina and Cheziyan eat dinner in silence when they hear Diya scream. As they rush to Diya's help they find Diya scooting to the corner of the room, not letting Cheziyan touch her. She points to the windows where the ragged old man is chanting prayers and spraying water around the house and windows. Cheziyan beats the old man and throws him out. Sila is hanging on the windowsill.
The old man tells the magician he has warded off Sila from the house but cannot get rid of her and the magician's prayers before dawn must control Sila. He starts to pray until dawn but hears the screams of the old man and finds a demonized Sila dragging off the old man. His phone rings, bringing Sila's attention to him. She starts pursuing the magician, who tries to return to his house but cannot open the door. At dawn, his home's door burst opens and pulls him in. He sees another demon in white inside the house and she kills him.
Later on that morning, Cheziyan and other police find the magician impaled on a tree and eaten by termites, and deduces the magician was murdered a few hours ago. He requests the forensic team to collect every blood sample around the spot. Cheziyan while investigating the forensic photos, finds a weird scratch that reads "16:113" on the magician's body. Forensics report two different blood samples from the murder spot; one is the magician's and the other is a rare blood group called "
Bombay Blood group
hh, or the Bombay blood group, is a rare blood type. This blood phenotype was first discovered in Bombay by Dr. Y. M. Bhende in 1952. It is mostly found in the Indian sub-continent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan) and parts of Iran.
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", which and only a very specific set of people born in Maharashtra and Gujrat have. Cheziyan narrows down his suspect from the list of people with this rare blood group to a woman who has unusually signed in Arabic. He takes a printout of her photo and cross-checks it with his Diya.
Diya turns hysterical when she sees the photo, confirming the woman in the photo is Sila. He sends Regina and Diya to another house and requests Kulandai to change the bed sheets with the sheet that was present when he had sex with Sila. The police dog is used to find Sila's hideout in the forest. Searching for a link between an Arabic woman born in Maharashtra or Gujrat with a hill station in the south, he finds a verse in the
Quran
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4:16, and checks for verse
16:113.
As per the verse, he finds a Muslim priest who explain the existence of Sila (evil Jinn) and humans, and how six Silas were killed at their weakest time by humans; the Silas vowed to plunge the place in darkness In their next birth. All 5 of them born as hora grass, termite, fish, dog and snake. Only one of them was born as human child and escaped from in Gujarat earthquake. A Gujarati women was one of the Silas who vowed to bring all her sisters back to human form by killing her unborn child and Diya to gain ultimate power. Cheziyan saves Regina and Diya and Sila gets finally killed.
Cast
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Sundar C. as
Inspector
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Australia
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Chezhiyan aka Chelli aka Sivabalan
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Sakshi Choudhary
Sakshi Chaudhary, born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India is an Indian model and film actress. Sakshi primarily appears in Telugu movies, starting with '' Potugadu'' (2013).
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as Regina Chezhiyan
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Dhansika as Jinn Sila
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VTV Ganesh
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as Head Constable Kulandhaivel
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Vimala Raman
Vimala Raman is an Australian actress and former model who has worked in Indian cinema. She appears in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil language films. Born and brought up in Australia, she made her debut in 2006 with the Tamil film ''Poi''. An esta ...
as Jinn Shaika
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Manasvi Kottachi
Manasvi Kottachi is an Indian Child actress who works in Tamil and Malayalam films.
Career
Manasvi Kottachi debuted with '' Imaikkaa Nodigal'' (2018) playing Nayanthara's daughter, garnering high popularity before starring in '' Suttu Pidikka ...
as Diya Chezhiyan; Chezhiyan's daughter
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Yogi Babu
Yogi Babu (born 22 July 1985) is an Indian actor and comedian, who appears in Tamil films. A three time Ananda Vikatan Cinema Award winner, he performed in '' Aandavan Kattalai'' (2016), ''Kolamavu Kokila'' (2018) and ''Pariyerum Perumal'' (20 ...
as House Broker Vanangamudi
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Shaji Chen
Shaji Chen (also credited as Shaji and Shaji Chennai) is an Indian writer and actor. Shaji's main area of writing is music and cinema related. Shaji writes in Tamil, Malayalam, English languages and acts in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films.
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as Muslim Sage
* Raja Simman as Mouliyaar
Production
Director V. Z. Durai announced ''Iruttu'', his seventh effort, after the release of ''
Yemaali
''Yemaali'' () is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy drama film written and directed by V. Z. Durai. The film features Samuthirakani in the lead role, with Sam Jones, Athulya Ravi, and Roshni Prakash also in pivotal roles. Produced ...
'' in 2018. The first poster was released in October 2018 with a picture of Sundar C in the role of a policeman. The director hired actor-director Sundar C as the male lead while C was directing ''
Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven
''Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven'' () is a Tamil-language action comedy film directed by Sundar C. and produced by Lyca Productions. A remake of the Telugu film ''Attarintiki Daredi'' (2013), the film stars Silambarasan, Ramya Krishnan, Prabhu, ...
''. Filming took place in
Ooty
Ooty (), officially known as Udhagamandalam (also known as Ootacamund (); abbreviated as Udhagai), is a city and a municipality in the Nilgiris district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located north west of Coimbatore and so ...
.
Music
The film's soundtrack was composed by
Girishh G. and lyrics were written by Mohanrajan. The audio rights are with
Sony Music
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.
Awards and nominations
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{{V. Z. Durai
2010s police films
2010s Tamil-language films
2019 films
2019 horror films
Films directed by V. Z. Durai
Films shot in Ooty
Indian supernatural horror films
Indian police films
Fictional portrayals of the Tamil Nadu Police