Yavarum Nalam

Manohar moves with his family into a new flat on the thirteenth floor. The women of the house become hooked on a new television serial in which a family just like theirs has also moved into a new home. Then Manohar notices something: whatever happens in the serial happens shortly afterwards in his own house. Vikram Kumar shot it simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi with two different casts. The horror is not in the house but on the screen, with the film turning the serial the household depends on into a direct threat and playing on the television habits of those years. Madhavan leads. As it proceeds the solution to the mystery shifts from the supernatural to a real crime. Who it is for: viewers who like Indian horror thrillers and stories set inside a home. Who it is not for: anyone who will snag on gaps in the logic.