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{{Infobox film
| name = Andha Naal
| image =
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| director = Vishnu Priyan
| producer = D. Antony
| writer = Vishnu Priyan
| starring = {{ubl|[[Prem Menon (actor)|Prem Menon]]|[[Raja (Tamil actor)|Raja]]|[[Anandaraj]]|[[Mohini (Tamil actress)|Mohini]]|[[Venniradai Moorthy]]|[[Charle]]|[[Alex (actor)|Alex]]|[[Jaiganesh]]|Master Nadim Khan|CID Shakuntala|[[Kavitha (actress)|Kavitha]]|[[Rani (Tamil actress)|Raksha]]}}
| music = [[Soundaryan]]
| cinematography = G. Madhavan
| editing = M. Sakthivel
| distributor =
| studio = Empire Movies
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1996|10|11}}
| runtime = 140 minutes
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}

'''''Andha Naal''''' is a [[Tamil films of 1996|1996]] [[Tamil language|Tamil]] [[Mystery film|mystery]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film directed by Vishnu Priyan. The film features [[Prem Menon (actor)|Prem Menon]], [[Raja (Tamil actor)|Raja]], [[Anandaraj]] and [[Mohini (Tamil actress)|Mohini]] in the lead roles, with [[Venniradai Moorthy]], [[Charle]] and [[Alex (actor)|Alex]] playing supporting roles. The film, produced by D. Antony, had musical score by [[Soundaryan]] and was released on 11 October 1996. The film is partially inspired from the 1954 cult film ''[[Andha Naal]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spicyonion.com/movie/antha-naal/|title=Antha Naal (1996) Tamil Movie|accessdate=2016-04-06|publisher=spicyonion.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jointscene.com/movies/Kollywood/Andhanaal/7917|title=Find Tamil Movie Andhanaal|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218195033/http://www.jointscene.com/movies/Kollywood/Andhanaal/7917|archive-date=2011-02-18|accessdate=2016-04-06|publisher=jointscene.com}}</ref>

==Plot==

The film begins with the church Father James ([[Anandaraj]]) digging up a coffin in the graveyard in the middle of the night. Father James finds inside the coffin, a dead body of Babu ([[Raja (Tamil actor)|Raja]]) stabbed in the heart with a knife, so he immediately calls the police. The police inspector Rangaraj after seeing the dead body decided to hush up the issue and buried the coffin. The news was spread rapidly and it is now on the front pages of every newspaper. Very quickly, the police were being heavily criticised for smothering up the sordid affair.

[[Superintendent of police (India)|SP]] Vikramadithyan ([[Prem Menon (actor)|Prem Menon]]) decides to take up himself in this sordid case. He digs up the coffin and sends the corpse to the post-mortem examination. Vikramadithyan first examines the Father church James and James tells what happened in the past.

Babu ([[Raja (Tamil actor)|Raja]]) was a spoiled student specialist in ragging other students and in annoying the professors. Babu clashed many times with his classmate Mary ([[Mohini (Tamil actress)|Mohini]]) who was a soft-spoken student and a religious person. Being an orphan, she was brought up by Father James. Babu slowly fell in love with her, he became a good man and he eventually converted to Christianity. Finally, Vincent Babu and Mary got married at the church with the blessings of Father James. At the wedding night, Babu shews his true colours. He was, in fact, a drunkard and a womanizer, he acted as a good man all along only for spending time with Mary one night and he left her the next day. Many years later, Babu reappeared as a melancholic man who lost all his wealth and asked Father James for forgiveness. Mary had a boy called Alex (Master Nadim Khan). Alex forced his mother Mary to live with Babu who had not changed at all. Babu's behaviors became worse : he behaved badly with the school teacher Poornitha ([[Rani (Tamil actress)|Raksha]]) in public, he spent time with a prostitute ([[Shakeela]]), he even tried to seduce Lakshmi ([[Kavitha (actress)|Kavitha]]) who resurfaced to see her daughter Mary, he drank a lot of alcohols in a bar owned by ([[Alex (actor)|Alex]]) and worst that he molested his wife and beat up his son. One night, Father James was informed of Babu's death and they all proceed to his funeral the same evening. When a worker tried to hammer the first nail in the coffin, the hammer fell from the hands and hit Babu's chest. Babu opened his eyes briefly and Father James noticed it.

Vikramadithyan is now determined to find the culprit. What transpires next forms the rest of the story.

==Cast==

{{colbegin}}
*[[Prem Menon (actor)|Prem Menon]] as Vikramadithyan
*[[Raja (Tamil actor)|Raja]] as Vincent Babu
*[[Anandaraj]] as Father James
*[[Mohini (Tamil actress)|Mohini]] as Mary
*[[Venniradai Moorthy]] as College Professor
*[[Charle]] as Vincent Babu's friend
*[[Alex (actor)|Alex]] as Bar Owner
*[[Jai Ganesh]] as Vikramadithyan's father
*Master Nadim Khan as Alex
*[[A. Sakunthala|CID Shakuntala]] as Vikramadithyan's mother
*[[Kavitha (actress)|Kavitha]] as Lakshmi
*[[Rani (Tamil actress)|Raksha]] as Poornitha
*[[Shakeela]]
*Manager Cheena
*[[Thyagu (actor)|Thyagu]] as Kandu
*[[Pandu (actor)|Pandu]] as Subbu
*[[Kumarimuthu]] as David
*Jyothi Meena
*[[Singamuthu]] as Muthusamy
*Bayilvan Ranganathan
*Tirupur Ramasamy
*[[Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor)|Chandrasekhar]]
{{colend}}

==Soundtrack==

{{Infobox album|
| name = Andha Naal
| type = [[soundtrack]]
| artist = [[Soundaryan]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 1996
| recorded = 1996
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| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 26:41
| label =
| producer = Soundaryan
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}}

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by [[film composer]] [[Soundaryan]]. The soundtrack, released in 1996, features 6 tracks with lyrics written by [[Piraisoodan]], Visali Kannadasan and Soundaryan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://play.raaga.com/tamil/album/Andha-Naal-songs-T0004053|title=Andha Naal Songs|accessdate=2016-04-06|publisher=play.raaga.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saavn.com/s/album/tamil/Andha-Naal-2010/9YVCKBEk3zk_|title=Andha Naal Songs|accessdate=2016-04-06|publisher=saavn.com}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Track !! Song !! Singer(s) !! Duration
|-
|1 || "Vacha Vacha" || [[Anuradha Sriram]] || 5:00
|-
|2 || "Andha Naal" || [[K. J. Yesudas]] || 5:02
|-
|3 || "Adiye Thanni" || [[Mano (singer)|Mano]] || 5:12
|-
|4 || "Devanin Vasalil" || Mano, Anuradha Sriram || 5:00
|-
|5 || "Yesuve Yesuve" || Prabhakar, Rajkumar || 1:21
|-
|6 || "Andha Naal" || [[Swarnalatha]] || 5:06
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:1996 films]]
[[Category:1990s Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Tamil-language films]]
[[Category:1990s mystery thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian crime thriller films]]
[[Category:1996 crime thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian mystery thriller films]]

Andha Naal 1996 film - Revision history

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