We have seen lot of horror and thriller movies starting from ancient cinematic jagan mohini, yaar, 13 number veedu, uruvam and since then there was a strict silence in making horror movies and the impact dried up. The last which we witnessed as a horror movie was Prashanth’s “Shock” which was the remake of the hindi super hit film “Booth”. That film didnt do well. Having all these in mind and without expectations we went to yavarum nalam for the sole reason - P.C.SRIRAM.
But, we seriously didnt know that there was more brain twisting screenplay waiting for us. Wow! what a film it was, after a looooooooong time, we witnessed a mindblogging screenplay, perfect fitting BGM, excellent casting, unbelievable yet interesting logic and much more. The best point which impressed us is the narration style in screen play, i.e. everytime we guess something in the film, it went wrong for us (not only for us, for most of the viewers too .. he he he) and the next phase which was impressive was the suspense element, the screenplay had enough scope for twisting the audience mind in creating a doubt on several cast leaving us gasping on the climax. Ghost inside the Television concept - eventhough looked weird in the beginning , the screenplay made us comfortable. Special applause to the director for trying a dare DEVIL script and note that this director has bounced back after a failure of his first film ALAI starring Simbu and Trisha.
Madhavan justified his role by his mature facial expressions and his regular stints. We heard that this is the only tamil movie which has sold its copyrights to holywood.
Critics:
ok, we appreciate the splendid efforts of the 13 B crew , but wanna say few points on where they could have blown it off,
1. The blood spilling like 13 in the first half was bit comic.
2. Songs inbetween was a real mess in bringing the audience pulse down and we feel that films of this calibre dont require songs at all.
Thats it !
Special note from the Wing 16 team
Aspiring screen play writers, directors , kindly watch this movie to get a gist of real quality .
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May 6, 2009 at 01:24:07
Hello Vijay,
i too liked the movie. It’s actually better than hollywood horror flicks like ring, grudge, etc…. In all those movies they show too much of gore, blood and horrible makeups to scare us.
But 13B is the only movie that REALLY scared us just by the lighting effects. and the screenplay too perfect and that’s why the hollywood people bought this script.
There are some minor slips(but not pitfalls) in the screenplay, but that’s all can be done in a ghost story. and the BGM seems a little familiar which i’ve heard in a lot of english movies.
But anyway, this is a great movie, no one can deny it.