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directed by

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. The film stars

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, Sadhana and

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. It was released on 15 June 1990 and became a success. The film was remade in Hindi as '' House No. 13'' (1991) again directed by Baby.

Plot

Selvam (

), an estate manager, and his family move into a new house based in a remote village. There, Selvam falls in love with Annam ( Sadhana), a jolly village girl. Disturbed by a ghost (Lalitha Kumari), Selvam's grandfather dies from a heart attack. One day, Murali (

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), Selvam's brother, goes to an isolated home and treats an old lady. The next day, he realizes that the old lady was a ghost and he also dies from a heart attack. The family, in mourning, decides to arrange Selvam's wedding with Annam to forget this tragedy. Thereafter, Annam becomes pregnant but even after 10 months, she doesn't deliver. A Gurukkal ( Ra. Sankaran) comes to the aid of the family and he feels that something has stopped her delivery. He prepares a ritual and the ghost finally appears and tells him about her past. The ghost was the young woman named Rekha. She lived happily with her husband ( Ravikanth) but her husband had a lot of bad habits and also had a lot of debts. Under pressures, he forced his wife Rekha to have a sexual relationship with the house owner. She refused and killed the house owner. Afterwards, her angry husband killed her in turn. She then became a ghost and killed her husband. Since that day, she killed every male who stayed in the house.

Cast

as Selvam * Sadhana as Annam *

as Rekha / Ghost *

as Murali *

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as Shanthi (Murali's wife) * Chandrakanth as Rekha's husband *

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as Muthu * Ra. Sankaran as Swamy * S. N. Parvathiy as Parvathi, Selvam and Murali's mother *Baby Manju as Manju

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Sangeetha Rajan, with lyrics written by

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References

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*{{IMDb title 1990 films 1990 horror films 1990s Indian films 1990s Tamil-language films Films directed by Baby (director) Indian horror films Tamil films remade in other languages Tamil-language Indian films