Sarabham Movie Review

Cast : Naveen Chandra, Salony Luthra, Naren & Others. 

Cinematography : Krishnan Vasant

Editing : Leo John Paul

Music : Britto Michael

PRO : Nikkil Murugan

Written & Directed by : Arun Mohan

Producers : CV Kumar & Abinesh Elangovan

Banner : Thirukumaran Entertainment and Abi & Abi Pictures 

Distribution : Dream Factory

Release Date : 01-08-2014

Run Time : 02:16:00

Take a comfortable seat, make yourself relaxed to watch Sarabham, the thriller from the debutant Arun Mohan featuring Naveen Chandra , Salony Luthra, Aadukulam fame Naren and others. The movie revolves both clock and anti-clock wise with these three characters and twists you largely enough to get engrossed in the frame. The director has previously mentioned two statements about the movie’s story – “Never miss the film from the first shot and the other one is not to reveal the story to the audience” – He has stayed true and proved faithful to his statement by rightly justifying it with his screenplay, an engaging plot and telling performances from a handful of actors.

Sarabham is a mystical word about a creature which is half-bird and half-lion. The movie starts off with Naveen Chandra, a physically well-built and intellectually strong techie architect, who develops his plan for a theme park his construction company is about to build. The chief contract is heading to Naren‘s SS constructions who is a typical high-class, covetous business man. Naveen showcases his project to Naren but he gets it rejected citing an attitude problem. He leaves frustrated, but out of sheer disillusionment, he devises a plan to take revenge on Naren.

Naveen follows and meets Salony in the state of despair.  In turn, Salony becomes Naveen’s partner-in-crime and provides a helping hand. With the execution of the plan ends the first half, leaving the audience bewildered and puts forward a puzzle to involve themselves for the second half.

The second half is quite cerebral and replete with twists. Every time the director makes us to wait, it’s totally paid off later and he makes us feel the wait is totally worth it. Arun’s brilliant writing is superbly carried off by the actors. Salony is probably the only lady in the frame and sans any compromises, she stands tall with her variations and dialogues. Salony will have a bright future in the tinsel town if utilized effectively. Normally, in thrillers, the director takes the short route instead of justifying the path he has taken leaving us all perplexed, but Arun has avoided that shortcoming beautifully and provides ample reasons which substantiates every other scene with a tidy writing. Salony carries the second half on her shoulders, more or less single-handedly.

Everyone has chipped in with some good performances, overall. Naren after Adukalam has made a strong impact with this film. As far the normal audience, they might miss the regular romance & comedy as we often get to watch in a commercial film. The songs are middling, but the background score from Britto Michael has gelled with the film really well. Technically, Sarabham has no compromises and pulls off perfectly in every department. Art director Gopi Anand (Mundasupatti fame) has been a good architect, Editing by Leo John Paul and Cinematographer Krishnan Vasanth have supported rightly for putting up a good show. Kudos!! Sarabham is set as an unintentional tale which gradually turns engagingly intentional.

 Sarabham Movie Review Rating : 3/5