Jackson Durai (2016)

Jackson Durai is a 2016 Tamil horror comedy directed by Dharani Dharan, starring Sibi Sathyaraj as a young police officer and his father Sathyaraj in a key role. The officer is sent to a village where people are terrified of an old bungalow from the days of British rule and the spirits said to live in it. Setting out to prove the stories false, he finds the house really is haunted, by ghosts tied to its colonial past, and has to deal with them as well as with the living who have their eyes on the property. Bindu Madhavi plays the heroine and Karunakaran provides comedy. The film came during the wave of Tamil horror comedies of the mid-2010s.