Adhu is a 2004 Tamil horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Ramesh Krishnan, starring Sneha in the lead role, who plays the role of a spirit possessed girl. The film, that has Aravind, a newcomer, Suha, Kazan Khan and Vijayan in supporting and Abbas

Abbas (actor)

Mirza Abbas Ali , known as Abbas, is an Indian film actor and model. He has appeared in Kollywood Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada films.Born in Calcutta and educated in Mumbai, he was discovered modeling in Bangalore...

 in a cameo role, is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong

Cinema of Hong Kong

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-Thai

Cinema of Thailand

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-Singaporean film

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 The Eye

The Eye (2002 film)

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, which was remade later in the United States under the same title and in Hindi as Naina

Naina

Naina is a Hindi horror film released in India in 2005. It stars Urmila Matondkar. It is an uncredited remake of the Hong Kong film The Eye, meaning the original writers received no compensation as opposed to that provided by the American remake The Eye.Its release caused controversy in India...

, starring Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

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 and Urmila Matondkar

Urmila Matondkar

Urmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...

 in the lead roles respectively. The film, with music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...

 and cinematography by P. Selvakumar, released on 15 October 2004 and received generally negative reviews and is considered a box-office flop.

Cast

• Sneha as Meera
• Abbas
  Abbas (actor)
  Mirza Abbas Ali , known as Abbas, is an Indian film actor and model. He has appeared in Kollywood Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada films.Born in Calcutta and educated in Mumbai, he was discovered modeling in Bangalore...
  
  as Doctor Raj (cameo)
• Aravind
• Suha as Kayalvizhi
• Kazan Khan
• Vijayan
• Saranya
  Saranya Ponvannan
  Saranya Ponvannan, is an Indian film actress, who has predominantly appeared in Tamil language films. Saranya made her debut in a lead role in Mani Ratnam's Nayagan and went on to play lead roles in a few films during the late 1980s...
  
  as Meera's mother
• Shanmugharajan as Muthu

Music

The film score was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...

, which was said to be one of the few highlights of the film. The film has only one song, a soundtrack was not released.

External links

• Adhu review at The Hindu
  The Hindu
  The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...