Aadupuliyattam (2016)

Director
Kannan Thamarakkulam

Main cast
Jayaram Subramaniam; Ramya Krishnan; Om Puri; Sheelu Abraham; Sudheer Karamana

Genres
Comedy, Family, Horror

Description
‘Aadupuliyattam’ is a horror-humor film based on a myth that is supposed to have taken place 600 years back. This myth affects the life of a businessman Satyajith who leads a happy life with his family. He approaches a yogi for help who leads him to a house haunted by the woman from the myth, Mathangi. The resulting events form the plot of the film.


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