Everybody's fine, finally

Its been a really long time since I last blogged, because it indeed has been an awful long time since I had a clear conscience regarding my ideas- few convoluted feelings here and there- for which the answers I'm still searching for- certainly didn't help much.

Thankfully, Madhavan did the trick to have me writing as my usual self again, after watching 'Yavarum Naalam', his horror thriller directed by Vikram Kumar. After watching a dud named 'Ayan' last week, I was left starving with the prospect of watching a good film and hence finnaly came in 'YN', and brilliantly so. Of course, Yaravum.. is no Sixth Sense, but it is by far the best horror film I have seen in Indian cinema in the past 10 years in which I have been watching this cinema industry.

Thanks to some fancy cameraworks by PC Sriram and some slick editing by Sreekar Prasad, the veterans certainly did their job well in adding oomph to this thriller- given the fact that the film doesn't have many aspects about it which are too novel in comparison with other horror films. This is not the film that will scare you nevertheless, so we could take out the horror equation a little, however, the film does have a fair share of twists and turns that keeps you glued to your seat till the final reels.

I had hoped to catch the Hindi version though, as much of the film has the characters speaking more Hindi than Tamil, thus the Hindi version might have looked more original in every sense, rather than the Tamil one which looked like a modified dubbing. Madhavan is terrific in his lead role, and he carried the entire film convincingly on his shoulders. I had just said this to my friend recently- and I would repeat it again- Madhavan is a very successful actor in his own ways- somebody who knows how not to get stuck in a certain image mould. He may not rake in as much moolah or star power as the Vijays or Vikrams or Ajiths do, but he certainly knows what he is doing, and YN is a good testament to this. Vikram Kumar's directorial abilities is surprising given the fact that he was the same person who unspectacularly directed the 2005 Simbhu- Trisha flop 'Alai' (Yes, I know its shocking). From somebody who made 'Alai' to somebody who made 'YN', definitely he has grown immensely in stature over the years. Hope to see more good work for him. But certainly for someone who directed such a dud as his first, he is fortunate enough to have a bandwagon of veteran technicians coming into vital roles in this film, and taking it a notch higher in terms of picture quality.

Shankar Ehsaan Loy's music is adequate, though the film could have done without songs.

Everybody's fine, Dr. Balu.

Rating: 8.5/10