Banner: S Pictures

Production: Director Shankar

Direction: Arivazhagan

Star-casts: Mirugam fame Aadhi, Nanda, Sindhu Menon, Saranya Mohan, Sreenath and others.

Music: Thaman S

Cinematographer: Manoj Paramahamsa

A humble request to Ram Gopal Varma! Next time you make a thriller kindly learn some lessons from debutant Arivazhagan. Well, we aren't coming up with a rigid statement that 'Eeram' is out-on-top thriller. It brings you the clichéd traits on supernatural thriller. But the filmmaker exactly interweaves with justifying narration of equal proportions in stupefying romance and spellbinding dialogues.

Fine! What makes Eeram so special is that the filmmaker hadn't revealed about the actual genre… Of course, the film isn't an off the wall thriller for we would have seen many scenes lifted from various Hollywood flicks.

Story of 'Eeram' goes this way…

The film opens with Vasudevan (Aadhi) investigating the murder of Ramya (Sindhu Menon), his ex-girlfriend. Although, the reports from evidences imply that she has committed suicide. But Vasu doesn’t give up as he predicts that some secret lies behind her death. Later, he starts investigating the case to the neighbors. But later, it becomes so hard to witness shocking events of her neighbors, watchman and a person who visited the apartment getting killed one by one.

Well, the greatest puzzle is drawn through the weapon used by murderer and that's H20 – Water...

What unfolds next is a series of events that switches from flashbacks to the present time with appalling sequences falling one after one.

First things first: Aadhi does a wonderful job. The actor who was spotted in wild looks in ‘Mirugam’ has completely transformed his appearance. Thanks to director Arivazhagan for estimating him on righteous role. Nanda does justice to his role and the characterization is quite surprising. Sindhu Menon is a good entry to Kollywood. Indeed, she plays the lead role all throughout the show. Saranya Mohan has more matured in her show.

Arivazhagan seems to have lifted some scenes from various foreign films that gradually looses out the interests of audiences who would've watched those films before say, Mirrors, Final Destination, etc…

Musical score by Thaman is average as all the songs have been tuned in the same style. Manoj Paramahamsa's cinematography is top-notching with good tone and innovative camera angles. Computer generated graphics have been perfectly done. You will witness it over the title credits. But it seems to be exceeding in levels at certain parts, especially in the sequences where the dark cloud is shown.

Finally, putting 'Eeram' in simple terms, the film has chances doing a fair business in box office. it's a great supernatural thriller of the season that blends romance, emotion and spine-chilling aspects.

Verdict: Very Good

Richard Mahesh

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