Shock (2004 film)

Shock
Promotional poster
Directed by	Thiagarajan
Produced by	Thiagarajan
Written by	Thiagarajan Lalit Marathe Sameer Sharma
Starring	Prashanth Meena Abbas Thiagarajan Suhasini
Music by	Salim-Sulaiman
Cinematography	M. V. Panneer Selvam
Edited by	P. Sai Suresh
Distributed by	Lakshmi Shanthi Movies
Language	Tamil

Shock is a 2004 Tamil language supernatural thriller film directed and produced by Thiagarajan. The film features his son Prashanth in a leading role alongside Meena and Abbas, while Suhasini, Kalairani and Sarath Babu amongst others play supporting roles. The music is by Salim-Sulaiman. The film was a remake of Ram Gopal Varma's Hindi film, Bhoot (2003), and was released in 23 July 2004 to a positive response from critics.

The film revolves around Vasanth (Prashanth), a stock analyst, and his wife Malini (Meena). The two are in search for a flat in Chennai. Vassanth finds the perfect place on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building. However, the apartment has a horrifying past. The previous occupant of the flat, a young woman Manju who had killed her child and jumped from the balcony and died. Malini learns about this incident shortly after moving in and becomes oddly fixated with the story. Then, a series of inexplicable experiences drive Malini to near madness.

Vasanth becomes helpless and convinced his wife has developed some sort of psychological disorder. He consults a psychiatrist, Dr. Ranjan (Sarath Babu) after his treatment fails Vasanth begins to doubt that his wife is suffering from a psychological disease. The couple’s maid (Kalairani) believes Malini to be possessed, and calls in an exorcist (Suhasini).

Meanwhile, other seemingly unrelated events take place around the building. The watchman was gruesomely murdered with his head completely twisted, one of the residents Ajay (Abbas) is behaving erratically, and a murder occurs. The Inspector (Thiagarajan) is sent to investigate the murder at the building. The Exorcist spends time with Malini and learns that Malini is in fact possessed by the Manju. For more help, Vasanth goes to the Manju's mother (K. R. Vijaya). With the mother's help, the possessed Malini lets everyone know that Ajay was interested for a night with the previous tenant, and to save herself she jumped from her balcony, later Ajay realises that her son had witnessed all and got the watchman to throw the little boy out from the balcony, and creating a fake story that the woman had killed her son and then committed suicide.