Immortal
Table of Contents
Quick Facts
Plot
A thousand years ago, a tribal couple gives birth to a child with a mysterious supernatural nature, planting the seed of an ancient evil. The film then moves to present-day Chennai, where Magi, a young printing press worker, is searching desperately for affordable housing.
He meets Sindhu, a mysterious woman who offers him a room in her luxurious apartment at a suspiciously low rent. What seems like a lucky break turns unsettling as strange events pile up, and Magi discovers that Sindhu is a supernatural being who lures men with her charm and feeds on them, until her feelings for him begin to change everything.
The Chennai apartment setting is key to the film’s effect. By placing horror in an ordinary rented room, the film makes the supernatural feel close and personal rather than distant and exotic.
Performance
GV Prakash Kumar plays Magi with an everyman warmth that makes the horror land harder. He is believable as an ordinary young man caught in an extraordinary situation, and his fear feels real rather than performed.
Kayadu Lohar is the film’s centre as Sindhu, balancing allure and menace with confidence. TM Karthik, Kumar Natarajan and Lollu Sabha Maaran provide solid support, but the film belongs to its two leads and their strange, dangerous chemistry.
Kayadu Lohar’s performance is carefully judged. She never overplays the supernatural, which makes Sindhu more unsettling: the danger feels human before it feels monstrous.
Screenplay and Direction
Mariyappan Chinna directs with a clear sense of mood. The film works best as a contained tale of seduction, entrapment and escape, and its Chennai apartment setting gives the horror a claustrophobic, everyday quality.
The ancient origin story is less convincing than the present-day romance, and the film sometimes leans too hard on its supernatural explanations. But Chinna keeps the tension alive, and the love story at the centre gives the horror an emotional anchor.
Chinna’s direction is strongest in the film’s middle stretch, where suspicion grows slowly. Small details, a look, a sound, a door left open, build dread more effectively than any jump scare.
Music
Sam C.S. composes a score that moves between romance and dread, sometimes within the same scene. The songs are atmospheric, and the background music knows how to make an ordinary apartment feel quietly threatening.
The music is one of the film’s strengths. It supports the central relationship without softening the horror, and it helps the film’s mood linger after the credits.
Sam C.S. also uses silence well. The score knows when to vanish entirely, and those quiet stretches make the audience lean in, which is exactly where horror works best.
Themes
Immortal is, at its core, a story about love and hunger in conflict. Sindhu’s nature demands that she feed on the men she attracts, but her feelings for Magi refuse to follow that rule, and the film’s tension comes from that collision.
It is also about how easily we accept a bargain that looks too good to be true. Magi’s cheap room is a trap, but it is a trap built from his real needs, which is what makes it frightening.
The film also suggests that loneliness makes us vulnerable. Magi accepts Sindhu’s offer because he needs a home, and the film understands how need can blind us to danger.
Conclusion
Immortal is an effective romantic horror with a strong central pair and a mood that stays with you. It is not a perfect film, but its love story gives its scares a beating heart.
For horror fans who like their chills with emotion, it is well worth a watch, and its SonyLIV premiere makes it an easy one to catch.
Immortal premieres on SonyLIV on 30 October 2026, just days after this post, so it is easy to catch at home. Watch it after dark, if you like your romance with a chill.
What Immortal understands is that the best horror is personal. The scares work because Magi is not a hero but an ordinary man who needed a room, and Sindhu is not a monster but a woman torn between nature and feeling. That emotional complication lifts the film above a simple creature feature, and Sam C.S.’s score gives it the atmosphere it needs. As a late-night streaming watch it is ideal: short, moody, romantic and just unsettling enough to make you check the locks before bed.
Immortal is a stylish, atmospheric horror with a romance at its centre. It is well worth watching, especially as a late-night streaming pick, and it confirms GV Prakash Kumar and Kayadu Lohar as a pairing to watch.