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{{short description|2017 Indian horror film}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Aval
| image = The House Next Door - Poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Poster of Hindi version
| director = Milind Rau
| writer = Milind Rau [[Siddharth (actor)|Siddharth]] (dialogues) and Keshava
| screenplay =
| based_on =
| producer = Siddharth
| starring = Siddharth [[Andrea Jeremiah]]
| cinematography = Shreyaas Krishna
| editing = Lawrence Kishore
| music = [[Girishh G.]]
| studio = [[Viacom 18 Motion Pictures]] Etaki Entertainment
| distributor = Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2017|11|03}} (Tamil)
{{Film date|df=yes|2017|11|10}} (Hindi)
{{Film date|df=yes|2017|11|17}} (Telugu)
| runtime = 137 minutes
| country = India
| language = Hindi Tamil Telugu
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Aval''''' ({{trans|Her}}) in [[Tamil language|Tamil]], '''''Gruham''''' ({{trans|Home}}) in [[Telugu language|Telugu]], and '''''The House Next Door''''' in [[Hindi]], is a 2017 Indian [[horror film]] co-written and directed by Milind Rau. Shot simultaneously in the three languages, the film stars [[Siddharth (actor)|Siddharth]] and [[Andrea Jeremiah]] in lead roles, with Siddharth also working on the film as a co-producer and a co-writer. The film was released on 3 November 2017 to mostly positive reviews in all languages and became a success.The satellite rights of the film is sold to [[Colors Tamil]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/aval-the-house-next-door-gruham-movie-review-siddharth-andrea-jeremiah-star-rating-4915573/|title=Aval movie review: The Siddharth and Andrea Jeremiah starrer will test your immunity to horror films|date=3 November 2017|publisher=|accessdate=15 November 2017}}</ref>

==Plot==
The movie starts with a series of incidents of a happy life of mom and a daughter back in 1934. At present Dr. Krishnakanth Acharya / Krish ([[Siddharth (actor)|Siddharth]]), a successful brain surgeon, and his wife Lakshmi ([[Andrea Jeremiah]]) live peacefully in their beautiful house under the mountains. Their perfect life together is now disturbed after a family moves into the house next door where the mother and the daughter lived in 1934.

Jennifer D'Costa / Jenny (Anisha Angelina Victor) is a troubled teenager and neighbour of Krish and Lakshmi. Losing her mother at the young age, she has turned out to be a rebel. While she doesn't despise her caring stepmother, she never misses a chance to throw tantrums at her either. But, she loves her halfsister Sarah.

Jennifer's rebellious nature makes her do things like smoking for example. During one such time when she sneaks out of the house for a smoke, she picks up some belongings of a dead person. Jenny starts to act weird soon her family moves in the house. So, Jenny's father Paul D'Costa ([[Atul Kulkarni]]) with Krish's recommendation contacts Dr Prasad ([[Suresh (actor)|Suresh]]). And a series of paranormal incidents abound that affects the lives of the people around her. Jennifer's new house is haunted by three ancient Chinese spirits, and one of them is a man and he is bloodthirsty while the other two spirits are the mom and the daughter who helps the family to get out of the house without trouble. Aval is not just a conventional humans vs devil narration. It has an angle of good spirits vs bad spirits and how the living suffer as they are jammed between this supernatural tug-of-war.

==Cast==
*[[Siddharth (actor)|Siddharth]] as Dr. Krishnakanth Acharya ''"Krish"''
*[[Andrea Jeremiah]] as Lakshmi Acharya
*Anisha Angelina Victor as Jennifer ''"Jenny"'' D'Cousta
*[[Atul Kulkarni]] as Paul D'Cousta, Jenny’s father
*[[Suresh (actor)|Suresh]] as Dr. Prasad
*Avinash Raghudevan as Psychic
*[[Prakash Belawadi]] as Pastor Joshua
*Bhawana Aneja as Lizzy D'Cousta, Jenny’s stepmother
*Deeraj Vaidy as Krish's Friend
*Khushi Hajare as Sarah D'Cousta, Jenny’s half sister
*Yusuf Hussein as Colonel D'Cousta, Jenny’s grandfather

==Production==
The film was planned by [[Siddharth (actor)|Siddharth]] in June 2016, who revealed that he would work on a horror film alongside actress [[Andrea Jeremiah]] to be directed by Milind Rau, who had earlier made the unreleased ''[[Kadhal 2 Kalyanam]]''. The title of the film was said to be ''The House Next Door'', and the film was subsequently shot simultaneously in three languages.<ref name="Andrea and Sid to team up for a trilingual film">{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/Andrea-and-Sid-to-team-up-for-a-trilingual-film/articleshow/52702745.cms|title=Andrea and Sid to team up for a trilingual film|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=12 June 2016|accessdate=13 June 2016}}</ref> The principal photography of the film commenced in August 2016.

In October 2016, Andrea Jeremiah revealed that the shoot of the film was over.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://silverscreen.in/tamil/news/andrea-jeremiah-finishes-house-next-door-shoot-talks-taramani-relationships/|title=Andrea Jeremiah Finishes The House Next Door Shoot; Talks about Taramani, and its Portrayal of Relationships|date=21 October 2016|publisher=|accessdate=15 November 2017}}</ref>

== Music ==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="5" |Aval (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
|-
!<abbr>No.</abbr>
!Title
!Writer(s)
!Singer(s)
!Length
|-
|1.
|"Kaarigai Kanne"
|Muthamil
|[[Vijay Prakash]], [[Shakthisree Gopalan]]
|5:20
|-
|2.
|"Yaarada"
|
|[[Andrea Jeremiah]], Mark Thomas
|4:25
|-
|3.
|"Xiao Xiao Ma"
|
|Chen-Yu Maglin, Poorna M
|2:25
|-
|4.
|"Aval Theme"
|
|Instrumental
|1:54
|}

; Hindi tracklist<ref>https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/the-house-next-door/zzeC-DfGtCU_</ref>
*"O Mere Sanam" - [[Benny Dayal]]
*"Ye Waqt Maut Ka Hai" - Suraj Jagan, Shilpa Natarajan
; Telugu tracklist<ref>https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/gruham/T1IJtUGepKk_</ref>
*"Kaatukka Kanne" - Sathyaprakash, [[Chinmayi]]
*"Yevadura" - Shilpa Natrajan, Mark Thomas
*"Xiao Xiao Ma" - Chen-Yu Maglin, Poorna M

==See also==
* [[List of Hindi horror films]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|tt7471004}}
* [http://www.bbc.com/hindi/media-41781548 BBC India's music review of the Hindi-language album]

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