Someone is murdering the students of a college most viciously, and it's
all attributed to a ghost, either that of a girl who has been buried alive
on the site of the college 100 years ago, or freshman student Sarah who
hanged herself after others played her a particularly nasty prank only
last year. Students Anjali (Gayatri), Maya (Sherin) and Jeeva
(Vikramaditya) - who Maya is in love with, but who's in love with
Anjali - don't believe in ghost stories, and start investigating on their
own, at first suspecting one of their professors who teaches about urban
myths, then a variety of other people, before the two girls find the
corpse of above professor in Jeeva's bathtub, and they figure now they've
found the killer - but even with that knowledge, they cannot call the
police fast enough to save another of their friends from being killed. In
the end though, the killers turn out to be none other than Maya herself, the
sister of Sarah the girl who hanged herself a year ago, and the security
guard of the campus, who now turns out to be her father, and who is of
course in a perfect position to divert suspicion. The two of them of
course want to have revenge on the whole college that was responsible for
Sarah's death, and they have picked Anjali as the centerpiece of their
plan, wanting to bury her alive ... but enter Jeeva, who actually had to
run from the police to come to Anjali's rescue, and he now puts both Maya
and her dad out of commission - with a little help from the cops who are
now quick to notice he's actually one of the goodies - and in the end he
gets the girl, too. Rather disappointing slasher movie from the
Tamil branch of the Indian film industry, and the main problem of this
film is narrative pacing: Sure, the basic plot is incredibly thin, and one
can actually forgive the out-of-place song-and-dance routines, after all
this is an Indian film - but why waste so much time with weak college
comedy, an extended subplot about a student (Vivek) who suddenly finds
himself to have the ability to hear women's and animals' thoughts that has
no relation to the main narrative, and of course the obligatory love story? All of this of course
destroys any tension previously built up, and thus every
suspense scene has to start from scratch. That the director isn't all that
good in handling tension and suspense as it is doesn't help much either,
of course. Really not worth your while.
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