Yuvan Shankar Raja decided to reunite with Selvaraghavan for a film titled Kaan, but as the project was eventually shelved, Selvaraghavan decided to choose Yuvan to score the soundtrack for Nenjam Marappathillai. The film was initially planned to be shot within a single schedule, which was to be completed in March 2016, however principal photography wrapped on 30 June 2016. It was also reported that the film is based on an original story and not a remake of the 1963 film of the same name. The film was launched after a simple muhurta ceremony held at Menon's office in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai in January 2016, with the title of the film announced as Nenjam Marappathillai. During the auditions, Selvaraghavan spoke to Suryah for five minutes, Regina for five minutes and Nandita for two minutes. He said he cast Suryah to compensate for a project he cast him in but swiftly dropped. According to Selvaraghavan, all three actors were his first choices for their respective roles.
A month later, Regina Cassandra and Nandita Swetha were announced as the lead actresses. Another motive for making the film was to experiment with a genre he had not tried before. However, in a 2021 interview with The Times of India, he said he had neither seen a horror film nor read a horror novel in his life, but his brother Dhanush was a fan of the genre so Selvaraghavan decided to make a horror film without having seen any, laying the foundation for the film that would later be titled Nenjam Marappathillai. In a 2016 interview with the magazine Ritz, in response to speculation that the film was either a " horror-comedy", a "straight horror film" or a " psycho-comedy", Selvaraghavan refused to confirm or deny what the genre was, but said he sought to invent a new one. Santhosh was eventually replaced by Yuvan Shankar Raja in April 2016, thus collaborating after a long time with Selvaraghavan. Selvaraghavan's regular collaborator Arvind Krishna joined as the cinematographer, while editor Prasanna GK and art director Vijay Adhinathan were also included. Composer Santhosh Narayanan was signed on, marking his maiden collaboration with Selvaraghavan. In December 2015, IANS reported that Gautham Menon would be collaborating with Selvaraghavan to produce a horror film under his production house Ondraga Entertainment. He runs into Swetha/Mariam, only to realise that he is dead and has become a ghost. Seemingly unaffected, Ramsay returns to the house to see Swetha/Mariam and Rishi happily reunited. God possesses Shweta instead and kills the cook, who was the last of the servants left and proceeds towards Ramsay who puts up a fight. Mariam's spirit is destroyed and reaches god. Left with no option, Swetha herself exhumes and successfully burns Mariam's body. As they proceed to do so, each of the servants is killed one after the other by Mariam. Out of fear, one of the male servant accidentally blurts out the truth about the murder to Swetha, who is filled with rage at Ramsay, but asks everyone to dispose of the evidences, burn Mariam's buried body and keep the incident a secret. Rishi is able to see her and numerous paranormal activities start happening in the household simultaneously. Soon, Mariam realises that she has come back to the household as a spirit and starts haunting them. He asks them to kill Mariam and dispose off her body. One night, Ramsay cleverly plots a scheme and sends Swetha out of town for a board meeting and sexually assaults Mariam along with the male servants. He tries to misbehave with her on multiple occasions and Mariam's attempts to complain to Swetha about this goes in vain. Ramsay is smitten by Mariam's beauty and lusts after her.
Though uncomfortable in the beginning, Mariam learns to live there due to her financial commitments to the orphanage. Along with them live four male servants including a security guard and the personal assistant/cook. Rishi takes instant liking to Mariam and her tenderness with the boy contrasts with the coldness she receives from Ramsay and his wife. He married Swetha and currently manages the new cotton mill, albeit his father-in-law still having strict control of the business. He had risen step by step, often through nefarious means and finally made Swetha, the only heir of the billionaire fall in love with him using drugs. Ramsay, formerly Ramaswamy, was an orphan who started working in the cotton mill of his current father-in-law. She reaches the household and finds a little boy Rishi and his wealthy parents Ramsay and Swetha. She gets an offer to look after a child in an affluent household in a small village and accepts the offer, so that she can contribute her share of money to the orphanage's betterment. Mariam is a selfless orphan raised in a Christian orphanage by nuns.
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