Name: House Mates
Director: T. Raja Vel
Genre: Horror
Released: 2025-08-01
Cast: Darshan Thoogudeepa, Aarsha Chandini Baiju, Kaali Venkat, Vinodhini Vaidyanathan, Dheena

Synopsis

House Mates

In September 2022, newlyweds Karthik and Anu move into their own second-hand flat after Karthik strives hard to buy it. Anu starts noticing eerie happenings, such as taps turning on and off and switches operating involuntarily. She enquires with the neighbours about any unnatural deaths in the flats. A vegetable vendor mentions one such incident in the same block, when a family went missing without a trace. Anu discovers a child-like drawing on their bedroom wall, hidden behind the bureau. The drawings keep changing and increasing every day. Karthik dismisses her concerns and berates her when she suggests moving out. Around the same time, Karthik also begins noticing the strange occurrences. Meanwhile, Mahi, a young boy, is playing alone in his flat. He notices movement inside their bureau, and when he tries to investigate, an invisible force pushes him inside. Terrified, he develops a psychogenic fever. The doctor listens to his story. While his parents do not believe him, the doctor suggests he send a message to the "ghost," and if he gets a response, everyone will believe him. Mahi follows the advice and writes a message on his bedroom wall. This message appears on Anu and Karthik's bedroom wall, terrifying them. They respond, and their reply appears on the wall in Mahi's flat. Though initially frightened, both families eventually realize they are not communicating with ghosts but with another family living elsewhere.

Director: T. Raja Vel
Release: 1 Aug 2025
Run time: 129 min
Language: Tamil

Cast & crew

Darshan Thoogudeepa Cast AA Aarsha Chandini Baiju Cast

Kaali Venkat Cast

Vinodhini Vaidyanathan Cast

Dheena Cast JE Jeeva Ravi Cast TS TSR Srinivasan Cast SU Supergood Subramani Cast K. K. S. G. Venkatesh Cast PA Parthiban Cast AB Abdool Lee Edison KA Kavitha Bharathi Anu's father PR Prashanth Rangaswamy water supply tempo driver KE Kendrick Ashley Maheswaran "Mahi" SY Syama Harini the tesseract informer from 2012 T. T. Raja Vel Director, Writer RA Rajesh Murugesan Composer M. M. S. Sathish Cinematographer NI Nishar Sharef Editor

Sivakarthikeyan Producer

Reviews

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Cinema Express Akshay Kumar

Housemates scores a winner by introducing an idea new to this genre, where the sky is the limit in identifying a resolution. In fact, with such a unique problem, the sky is the limit for the resolution, and it was interesting to see how Rajavel didn't resort to a formulaic finish. In fact, the emotional connection between the different time periods and how it acted as a seal to the portal of convergence were both moving, and adhering to the film's established rules. Housemates, in a nutshell, is a brave and largely successful attempt by debut director Rajavel to tweak the horror genre to accommodate sci-fi elements while also giving it an emotional treatment, thereby not alienating the Tamil audience.

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