Neeya?

Neeya? () is a 1979 Indian Tamil-language horror film, starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role  and directed by Durai. It is a remake of the Hindi-language film Nagin, itself inspired by François Truffaut's film The Bride Wore Black, based on Cornell Woolrich's novel of the same name.

The male lead role was first offered to Rajinikanth, he turned down offer as he wanted to work on solo hero scripts, later Kamal Haasan took the role for his friendship with Sripriya, who was also the producer of the movie.

Neeya is followed by a sequel titled Neeya 2, which was released in May 2019.

Neeya is about an Ichadhari snake (Sripriya), who avenges the death of her beloved (Chandramohan). Kamal Haasan plays a man who does research on snakes. The movie was a huge hit at the box office.

Plot
Kamal Haasan, along with his group of friends: Vijayakumar, Srikanth, Jaiganesh and Ravichandran go to a forest. Kamal is a researcher who studies the behaviour of snakes (Ichadhari), a kind of snake which takes humanoid form. One of his friend kills the beloved of the serpent, (Chandramohan) despite the intervention of Kamal. Initially, all the other friends ignore Kamal without knowing the seriousness of the issue. They all leave the village and the female serpent (Sripriya) vows to avenge the death of her beloved. She kills all the five friends of Kamal in disguise at some instance and at the end, she disguises as Latha (Kamal's love interest) in order to kill him. In the end, Sripriya is killed and Kamal reunites with Latha and the child of Srikanth.

Cast
 Kamal Haasan as Kamal
 Sripriya as Naaga Rani (Icchhadhari Snake – Female Serpent)
 Chandra Mohan as Naaga Raja (Icchhadhari Snake - Male Serpent)
 Latha as Latha, Kamal's lover
 Vijayakumar as Vijay
 Manjula as Usha, Vijay's lover
R. Muthuraman as Lorry driver 
 Ravichandran as Ravi
 Sreekanth as Sri
 Jaiganesh as Jai
 Deepa as Deepa, Ravi's girlfriend
 Kavitha as Icchhadhari Snake, Female Serpent
 Swarna as Jai Ganesh's wife
 M. N. Nambiar as Appu Kuttan
 Suruli Rajan as Poochandi
 Y. G. Mahendran as Martin in a (Special Appearance)

Soundtrack
Music was composed by Sankar-Ganesh. Lyrics were written by Kannadasan and Vaali.

Reception
Ananda Vikatan rated the film 50 out of 100.

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Category:1979 films
Category:Films about shapeshifting
Category:Tamil-language films
Category:Tamil remakes of Hindi films
Category:Indian films
Category:1970s Tamil-language films
Category:Films scored by Sankar Ganesh
Category:Indian horror films
Category:Indian horror film remakes