Yavarum Nalam

Yavarum Nalam(Tamil)/13 B(Hindi) directed by Vikram Kumar starring R.Madhavan and Neetu Chandra in the lead roles and produced by Suresh Balaji and George Bayas is a horror movie that does not chill your bones/makes your spine dance/makes your heart do a crazy somersault but it does create an impression in your mind as to how a weird set of related events can actually take your breath away. Such a horror movie at least in India comes once in a Pink Moon(by that I mean improbable) .

For an horror movie to succeed, you need not have to put a ghost that will certainly do anything but does NOT SCARE YOU. You just have to weave a story that is original in its make with a haunting piano/orchestration at the background which is well supported by amazing photography and an amazing cast who can give HUMAN EXPRESSIONS!!!In short, an horror movie more than any other genre requires the co-ordination from all the departments to make it succeed.

Why most of the directors have not succeeded in India in creating a good horror movie is because they perceived that the Indian audience believes in anything that is not real.....but actually the converse is verily true,

TRUTH IS MORE STRANGER THAN EVEN FICTION!!!

I have seen FRIDAY THE 13th SERIES,HALLOWEEN,THE EXORCIST.....and when I compare Indian horror movies with these,they fail miserably. Even among the HOLLYWOOD horror movies....the ones that actually haunted(if I can say it that way) me were not the ones I mentioned above but the movies made by the MASTER FILM MAKER-ALFRED HITCHCOCK namely PSYCHO and THE BIRDS,they really scared the shit out of me. Because I have never seen a ghost but more than the ghosts what haunts me is the weirdness of the reality,the eerieness that surrounds a place...the stranger things that happen in reality that are somehow related to create HELL for you!!!

Coming back to this movie.....the movie hooks you from the 1st scene. Imagine yourself as Manohar (Madhavan naturally fit into this role) who is an upwardly mobile middleclass man who has just bought a house from a bank loan and becomes a witness to the weird happenings around the place like the milk getting spoiled each and every time,the lift not operating for him alone,how the serial Yavarum Nalam consists of characters that mirrors his own family's story and can be seen only in his house and not anywhere else,....etc.

However what attracted me most to the movie was how the subtleties were captured like in one scene,Manohar comes late in the night and is about to take the lift and a bat flies away at the same time signalling a perfect stage for a bad omen, the scene where the neighbour's dog is not enetering Manohar's house and the camera shows the hall in a black and white image(the reason behind being that dogs sees everything black/white and never in colours...this is actually why they can see spirits clearly) and the climax scene where Dr.Balu(played with elan by the Marathi actor Sachin Khedekar) happens to see the ghost of the murdered,Chitra reading out the news of the family's death in the year 1977 on the DOORDARSHAN channel when there is no power in the apartment.These are just few in number and with the haunting piano/orchestration as the background...ENTERTAINMENT is guaranteed!!!

Though there are people who did not like this movie....please watch it!!!It is really good and for those of you who did not like the movie,tell me which movie you got scared for and I shall tell you what sort of an audience do you belong to?