'Yaavarum Nalam' promises to thrill you to bits with the horror content it offers to the viewers. The film opens with a quite natural family set-up comprising a husband, a wife, a brother, a sister-in-law, children and grandparents. Yaavarum Nalam actually happens to be a television soap the whole family has got used to watching with interest over a period of time.

Surprisingly, our hero Madhavan could feel that the strange events that take place in the teleserial start happening within his own household too. Madhavan puts himself on a mission to ensure that the successive horror-filled events, shown to be taking place in the story in the tele-serial over 4-5 days, don't recur in real life thereby affecting his family.

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Further queries reveal that the serial is relayed as a horror serial only in Madhavan's house and not anywhere else which leaves Madhavan even more confused and confounded. Maddy sets about solving this riddle with a cop friend of his. Watch the film to find out whether or not he was able to find out who or what the culprit was.

Director Vikram has done a tremendous job in packaging the film as terrific and scary as possible and should be given full marks for maintaining the suspense till the very last moment. Some sequences in the film are sure to make even the strongest-willed person scary and feel spine-chilling.

For Madhavan, the 'chocolate boy' of Tamil films, this is an alien territory for him and he shows his entire range of emotions even as he sets about on a no-hope mission of finding the 'invisible'. Maddy comes out triumphs in a role that has very little scope for his natural romantic acting and emotes well in all the sequences.

Newcomer Neetu Chandra, another one of those many Mumbai imports thronging Tamil films, looks very pretty as Madhavan's wife. Saranya, Hari, Amitha, Madura and the kids have all done their jobs wonderfully well. Dr. Sachin Kadekar and Sampath enliven the proceedings with their casual performances.

For most of the sequences, the director successfully manages to keep his audience spell-bound and clutching to their seats, watching the events unfolding on the screen with terror in their eyes. The film, however, is not without its own share of flaws as the director fails miserably to explain how the strange things about the serial are visible only to Madhavan and not to others who watch the serial regularly.

P.C. Sreeram, who returns to action after a long self-imposed exile, shines as always. Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and the background score by Pari are lively and effective and add to the mood of the film. Sridhar Prashanth's cinematography is top-class. So are the dialogues by Neelu Aiyappan.

Yaavarum Nalam : Thriller treat