Eeram is a Master Piece

Eeram is an amazing movie... Director Shankar once again proves why he is so passionate about making his deputies do movies which he cant otherwise do under his name... This one is no different and justifies the S pictures tag.. The story is very different & brings a refreshingly new style to tamil cinema... Cinematography is simply out of the world, and man, the way water is shown as a villian, benign and insightful wizard is truly amazing... kavithai, kavithai endru kaththanum pola irunthucchu... amazing !.. Manoj Paramhamsa is a genius and I felt like starting an orkut community for him ;)

The entire cast fitted to T.. Pleasantly no overacting by anyone.. the best thing I liked abt the movie is the way the plot is unraveled... It starts with Ramya being a bad person and her death in the other thread... I was wondering if the movie was going to tell us, how such a good girl became a brat after moving to Chennai... then all the water clues started coming, and I thought it was just a symbolic thing... I didnt understand what it was leading upto.. even when that Playboy got killed, I didnt know what was happening & how the movie is going to progress... but 2nd half the story really picked up speed.. some melodrama here & there with Nanda near the climax.. but overall truly a Ram Gopal Verma style movie... Reminded me of 6th sense in the way the story is told...

Sindhu Menon is gorgeous. The trichy sequences of Aadhi and Sindhu are really shot well. It brought back some of personal old memories. Aadhi fits the role of a cop - so well. I wasnt very impressed with him when I saw him in Mirugam. Here, he has done an amazing job. Hopefully this is a lucky break for him. Sindhu Menon's first movie in tamil was not worth mentioning. She has proved that she has got both the looks & acting capability. She should stick to such traditional dresses than to all those crazy outfits she wore in her previous movies.

I liked the way they have downplayed everything which tamil cinema is known to do. eg. the brahminical angle to the female lead & the associated casteism which the heroine's dad shows. The neighbours and their mentality. Infact except Nanda, there is no one else who is really bad, everyone is as bad as we all are. And the director shows how some harmless things we supposedly do, when put together can impact some one's life. I think that is where the soul of the movie lies.

BG Music by Taman is amazing. He has done much better job than what he did in Sindhanai Sei. In SS (which I saw in Satyam) the BGM was full of noise and I was disappointed - although 3 songs were really good in SS. But here, Taman has proved his capability on BGM. The 2 melodies are also nice.

Coming to minus points, once you know who the culprit is and what caused the death, then you are itching to get to the climax. The director should have moved to the climax in max 5 minutes. The 2o minutes he wastes inbetween is a dampener. He didnt have a choice to make people beleive what the aavi says, so he had to make Saranya Mohan become the medium. But I think Tamil Audience have grown up and he should have let the hero have a wicked dream or something like that - without making any white uruvam come & talk. That climax fight, Nanda going behind Saranya mohan etc. are not well conceived. He should have had a tough talking sequence between Aadhi and Nanda and then taken things to the climax.

Arivalagan is a promising director. He is the next one I am really impressed with. (The last good debutant was Vetrimaaran in pollathavan). He must have carefully crafted this story for atleast 3 years to bring so much subtelty and naturality into the characters. I am sure he must be flooeded with offers now. I hope he takes his time and does something similar in his next movie. He shouldnt do what many others have done by doing a dampener as 2nd movie.