Cast: R.Madhavan, Neetu Chandra, Saranya, Ameetha and Hari Nair
Story, screenplay, direction: Vikram K kumar
Cinematography: P.C.SreeramEditing: Sreekar Prasad
Music: Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Background score: Tubbi Parik ; Lyrics: Thamarai
Dialogues: Neelu Ayyappan; Audiography: A.S. Lakshmi Naryanan
Fear has a new address, that’s the sub-title of the movie(released in both Tamil & Hindi). Of course if u comes out of the theatre, u can feel it also itz a totally different movie under horror and Scary movie category.
Vikram K. Kumar’s second attempt in the silver screen(After the experiment with simbhu in “Alai”). After entering into a contract with Big Pictures, Vikram signed R. Madhavan for it as the latter is well versed in both languages and can work with equal ease. Similarly, Neetu Chandra is familiar with both languages and was therefore cast in the female lead role. Besides, she could give dates immediately for shooting.
Now, let's talk about the title of the movie(supposed to be 13-B in tamil too, might be he changed becoz of 12B movie). This is the title of one serial in a channel named eye-TV. The movie moves around a civil engineer named Manohar played by R. Madhavan. He has just moved into a new flat numbered 13 B with his joint family, comprising his wife Neetu Chandra, his brother with wife and their two kids besides a serial-addicted mother played by saranya.
Manohar is very happy to have moved to this new house and lots of good things happen in the family, his brother gets promoted, his sister passes her college exams, his wife gets pregnant. But he is also surrounded by some strange happenings and an unknown fear...a fear that changes his life. What is that fear... well you have to go and watch the film.
Coming to performances, Madhavan has done a fine job, proving once again that given a good script he can do wonders. The struggle of a man trying to protect his family is well conveyed by him. He is a natural in the role. Neetu Chandra who makes her debut in Tamil with this movie emotes well, but needs to work on her lip sync of Tamil dialogues. The rest of the cast provides good support to the story.
I have to mention few point about director, I don’t know how he failed to notice (or forget) few things like tamil programs in the hindu magazine, mismatch between madhavan’s car registration showing MH-01 as well TN-07, why madhavan alone noticing changes in the serial.
Above all, I’ve to my Express gratitude for good works like, a terrific screenplay like English movies, character selection and unpredictable scene sequence.
Cinematography by P.C Sreeram is amazing. Not that the veteran cameraman needs the applause, but for this genre of cinema, the camera and lighting play a very important role and P.C has created that ‘edge of the seat’ feel. Editing by Sreekar Prasad is also top notch, though a tighter first half could have made this film even more thrilling.
Of course another important element of the thriller-horror genre is music. Composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the fans of these composers may miss their usual fare, but the background score by Tubbi-Parik is good. It may be jarring at places, but the script demands that.
It’s worth to remake the movie in Hollywood for the first time in Tamil movie’s history.
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