The journey

" That day, My manager woke me up early in the morning around 04.30. That is usual during a weekend since when I joined him. We started at 05.15 and rushed through the Bangalore roads. As we progressed, the road looked very familiar to me, yes its the same Bangalore-Mysore road. I don't know why we are going through the same route every now and then. I can just follow my manager's instruction, but not speak a word.


I could hear some good music of different languages changing often as per my managers wish. Being a kannadiga, I preferred the kannada songs. It was a tiresome ride with lot of high beam headlights approaching ahead. After some small breaks here and there, we reached Mysore at 07.30. We all charged up with the required food here and I could take some rest too.



We continued our journey towards the south. The road was very poor for some distance before we reached Gundulupet. In few minutes, I could sense that we are entering into TamilNadu. We posed for a number of snaps captured in Nokia Coolpix S10 and Cannon digital cameras on our way. The ride was very exciting as the route was very scenic with lot of trees around. While enjoying this ride, I did not realize that there are also some tough ride waiting for me.



We could spot some deers, lot of monkeys and also a couple of elephants by the road side. It was nice to see them under their natural habitat staring at the vehicles. Especially the elephants with big tusks playing with the mud & bushes around is nice to watch. We silently passed by without disturbing them other than few clicks.


As we moved we started climbing uphill - its OOTY hill. It was dangerous to go near some of the speedy vehicles especially the innova's around. Also difficult to climb the steep hill. My managers never bothered about me. As I have told, I can just follow my managers instruction, but not speak a word. There were about 36 hairpin bends that we need to cross. Atlast we reached the hilltop at around 12.30. Now we are at 2500m high from MSL." speaks our dear yellow color maruthi alto.

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yavarum nalam

The earth revolves around the SUN by rotating itself. Life goes on with certain believes based on our learnings and the our own experience. What if some anomaly happens around you that contradicts this belief?

Have you ever noticed something abnormal happening around you? What will happen if the makeup mirror at your home shows an inverted face whenever you look at it and behaves normal for others? What will happen if you are getting to know all the mishaps that are going to happen in your dear most's life? What will happen if you are not able to turn off your bedroom light whenever you are alone? Sometimes these happen in our dreams.

The hero of this movie faces such an experience in his life and the director has depicted the scene's with a nice thriller-horror screenplay. The new face heroine Neethu Chandra comes with a very nice smiling face giving a nice company for maddy.

The movie revolves around a joint family getting into a new flat 13B in 13th floor of an apartment. At the same time a new TV serial "yavarum nalam" that is specific to this flat was started. The whole family watches that serial, only the hero identifies that the story of that serial reveals the things that are about to happen in his home.

The hero also faces other anomalies. One such anomaly is that, The lift never works to his 13th floor whenever the hero goes alone. So he uses steps to go up everytime (He could have used the lift till 12th floor and walk only for one floor).

The hero regularly watches the serial to prevent some of the major mishaps, succeeding in quite a many. When the hero see's the climax of that serial, he realizes that something dangerous is going to happen. A TV serial getting over very soon is something rare to see. How the hero tackles the situation and gets a happy life is the climax. The explanation for the TV serial and background for all small incidents have been brought out very well.

As usual R.Madhavan has given a fabulous performance with enough support from others. After a long time, I think, we get to see a movie with such a deep story line. P.C.Sreeram's camera and the movie BGM has played wonders to add up the horror.

Overall, yavarum nalam is a good movie to be watched in a good theatre.