Naane Varuvean

A review by Rajesh Puvvada

Selvaraghavan and his brother came together after a decade. I thought it would be a psychological thriller, but this time he went paranormal. They went out of their limits and stepped into a wrong territory.

The movie commenced well, but the moment the audience it's paranormal plot, the expectations dilute like solid ice in a hot iron pan!! These kind of movies should leave the audience into believing that the paranormal things may mostly exist. But in this case you will realise that you are getting into a illogical paranormal stuff.

The score from Yuvan Shankar Raja is very good and that holds the movie to some extent.

Dhanush delivers well, especially as the mischievous twin. I could see that there was some yester year style statements in it. It's a decent performance on a weak plot.

When the plot is weak, what ever you do will be like applying lipstick to a grannie!!

If you have time to kill you can watch this. If you are keen on a good movie, avoid.

I am going with a 6/10, and the score is only for Danush and Yuvan!! Rest scored a zilch!!

It's a movie where it describes about that how a person changes a lot due to the incidents that happens into his life.

Selvaraghavan and dhanush with their team members had nailed it with their narration and some clues left out on there at everywhere to make a signature move of Selvaraghavan sir.

It's a kind of ghost movie but hits totally different with the film, the dual actors of dhanush also makes it different in the screen.

The intermission makes it to feel some goosebumps right there with the Yuvan's BGM.

Second half was not more specific to pick the particular scenes but they did a great job by completing a good looking film in the whole screenplay.

The rating of 7 is the reason for being pretty slow in the first half but we know as that's how director selvaraghavan and so it's acceptable for us to go through with this........

Decent story...expected more from Selva and dhanush combo. Started off as horror then moves onto thriller. Dhanush as usual acting was superb. Story was very thin. Both dhanush as in why they are the way they are was not explained leading to some weak screenplay. Music was absolutely garbage yuvan has lost it. Can watch one time. The kids acting was great. Overall would say it can be watched once. Disappointing as expecting much more with selva dhanush yuvan combo. Lead actress did decent with what ever limited role she had. Yogi babu comedy was a relief in the very serious movie. 6/10 average.

They had me in the first half . Core plot is nothing but similar to Muni franchise story , they tried to give different treatment to it . First half was intresting , the way they build story and tension was impressive , it was really confusing at first whether it's paranormal or psychological thriller . Interval block was total Bang . Second half was totally contrast to the first half , a complete let down and climax was terrible to the core . I expected more from "Kathir" character . Dhanush once again gave a terrific performance . Yuvan's background score was mind blowing . Cinematography was good . Overall watch at your own risk .

The first part of the film was captivating until the revelation of the 2nd character's introduction & rather its wrongdoings.

2nd half started with a backstory followed by a vengeance seemed so usual and felt a bit dramatic.

There are a few good things in the film especially the father-daughter relationship if you're in that zone, you might probably like this film to the core.

I realised lately that the story was written by Dhanush and not Selva, that's when all the dots were connected for why this Selvaraghavan's make was lacking that tingling touch of the maker, looks like Selva got carried away & trapped by his brother's charm of story-telling and thus agreed to put his legendary tag to the film.

And I hated the idea of bringing in the kids to this kinda vengeance plot as it has the potential to exploit & corrupt the smaller minds.

And I don't think, U1 scored music for this film since it is just way below average, nothing mentionable.

And Dhanush's acting was something that keeps us engaged & holds us together till the very end.