Hi in this article let us see about the tamil movie Eeram which is directed by debutant director Arivazhagan. The movie deals with a supernatural psychological thriller mixed with romance, sentiments, revenge and well etched characters with motives. The movie involves with water as a medium used by the director.
Technical Crew:
* The movie was produced under the banner S Pictures by Director Shankar.
* The movie was directed by debutant Arivazhagan Venkatachalam.
* Music by Taman.
* Camera was handled by Manoj Paramahamsa.
* Editting by Kisore Te.
CAst:
* Aadhi as Vasudevan.
* Sindhu Menon as Ramya Balakrishnan.
* Nandha as Balakrishnan.
* Saranya Mohan as Divya Sreeriraman.
* Heera Selvaraj as Deepa.
* Srinath as Vignesh.
Story line:
The movie starts with Vasu (Aadhi), a cop setting out to investigate the death of a housewife Ramya (Sindhu Menon), who lives in an upper middle class apartment in Chennai. She was found dead in bathtub. she has left behind a suicide note taking up the responsibility of her death. As Vasu tries to enquire her neighbors and husband Prabhu (Nanda) – an automobile engineer who was in Mumbai during this incident, he is exposed to a truth that she had an affair with a stranger who used to visit her regularly. Later in a flashback, we are revealed to a secret that Vasu and Ramya were in love with each other during college days. The local bus stop is their meeting point. At a point, Ramya tells him, that his father is in lookout for a bride groom and they both decide that Vasu would meet her father in person. As planned, Vasu goes to Ramya’s house and meets her father. But Ramya’s father refuses for their marriage. Later Ramya marries a businessman Bala, get settled in Chennai and they look like leading a happy life till she ‘commits suicide’.and couldn’t marry due to her father’s disapproval.
Meanwhile serial of murders take place but all the dead has a relation in the apartment complex where Ramya resided. Also, all the death end up in watery graves. Vasu gets the shock of his life during the course of investigation.Finally his investigation leads to some startling facts as he starts seeing the ghost of Ramya.
In the second half of the movie Ramya's spirit uses her sister Divya as a medium to reveal the truth about her death. Ramya tells that his husband Balakrishnan killed her because of the jealousy that he has connections with another guy who used to visit her frequently in the apartment. At the climax Ramya's spirit takes revenge on Balakrishnan and he is handed over to police for killing his wife.
Musical score by Thaman are fine, but he could’ve tried tuning different melodies. All the songs sound much similar to each other. But he does a good job in background score. Hats off to cinematographer Manoj Paramahamsa for his stunning cinematography. The film’s tone in blue goes much by the theme of dark and gloomy. But graphics seems to be much overloaded in certain shots, particularly with always seen dark clouds.
Songs:
* The movie has three songs and one theme music.
* "Saaral En Saaral" song is Thaman's masterpiece in the album. Amazing to listen to, the song gets its life thanks to Ranjith's voice and beautifully harmony by Thaman.
* "Tharai Erangiya" song sung by Suchitra provides a unique feel to listeners, a feel of drenching in the rain. The rhythm and orchestration is the USP of the song.
* "Mazhaiye Mazhaiye" song written by Viveka and sung by Ranjith is one of the melody in the movie.
Eeram is a must watch movie for all those who are waiting to watch a horror movie in tamil after a long gap.Eeram lives up to its theme – all is wet and watery in the film from the first frame till the last.The movie crossed about $1 million.