Neeya is a Tamil horror film starring Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...

 in the lead role of the protagonist and directed by Durai.
Neeya is a remake of the 1976 Hindi movie Nagin.

Neeya is about an Ichadhari snake (Sripriya) who avenges the death of her beloved (Chandramohan). Kamal Hassan plays the role of a man who research's on snakes.

Plot

Kamal Haasan along with his group of friends: Vijayakumar, Srikanth, Jaiganesh, Ravichandran go to a forest. Kamal is a researcher who studies about the behaviour of snakes (Ichadhari), a kind of snake which takes humanoid form. One of his friend kills the beloved of the serpent, Sripriya, despite the intervention of Kamal. Initially all the other friends ignore Kamal without knowing the seriousness. They all leave the village and the female serpent (Sripriya) vows to avenge for the death of her beloved. She kills all the five friends of Kamal in disguise at some instance and at the end she disguises as latha (Kamal's love interest) to in order to kill him. In the end Sripriya gets killed and Kamal reunites with Latha and the child of Srikanth.

Cast

• Kamal Haasan as Kamal
• Sripriya as Ichadhari Snake
• Latha
• Ravichandran
• Vijayakumar
• Manjula Vijayakumar
• Srikanth
• Jaiganesh
• Muthuraman - Guest role
• Y. G. Mahendran
• M. N. Nambiar
• Chandramohan - Male Serpent
• Deepa
• Surulirajan

The movie was followed by Naane Varuven.

External links

• Neeya film at IMDb.