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7am Arivu Movie Review

By Siddhartha
The most hyped film of recent times "7am Arivu" (Seventh Sense) is a mixed bag of sorts. To begin with the film has a documentary style of telling the viewers about the life and journey of Bodhidharmar (Surya) who from a prince in Kanchi in the year 520 A.D travels to China and becomes a powerful saint who gets to cure diseases that didn't have a cure and also help the Chinese people learn self-defense in the form of the famous Martial Art Kung-Fu.

The movie does keep the viewers glued to their seats for the first 20 minutes. However, when the plot moves to the present day where our hero who is a circus artist Aravindan (Surya) gets to meet his lady love Subha Srinivasan (Debutant Sruthi Hassan) things tend to drag a bit with the usual run-of-the-mill romance sequences. The only thing here is that the heroine is a genetic student who is involved in doing some path-breaking research.

Aravindan when he gets to know the real reason behind Subha's purpose of meeting him gets totally shaken and then when Subha explains him the importance of her research, he is in awe of things that has happened 1600 years ago and its impact on humanity now.

Simultaneously walks in the villain Dong Lee (Johnny Tri Ngyuen) the martial arts student who comes to India to unleash Operation Red, things start to heat up. The villain then follows Subha and Aravindan in a bid to successfully complete Operation Red plans to assassinate both but as cinematic logic cannot be defied, the hero overcomes all odds.

In the end what happens to the hero and what are the sequences that build to the climax is well told in this 165 minute film. The screenplay has lot of loop holes in it but at the same time, the entertainment quotient doesn't take a beating. There are good amount of fights, songs and romantic sequences which keeps the normal movie going audience happy.

Harris Jeyaraj's music though is a huge disappointment. Ravi K Chandran's cinematography is exemplary. In terms of acting, Surya shines in patches though his overall performance is nothing great to brag about. Sruthi Hassan looks very pretty on screen but her acting lacks the substance and one hopes she gets a longer rope in Tamil to prove her mettle further.

"7am Arivu" - Worth the watch.

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  1. KrishnaOctober 26, 2011

    a well written sid style review.. any hyped movie these days tend to succumb badly...I guess they hype knowing it would hit with the audience well.

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  2. SathishNovember 04, 2011

    The movie is good, in triggering Tamil people feelings in favour of their success.But in reality both the stories (Bodhi dharma and DNA scientific) is not acceptable.
    Bodhidharma's real life greatly varies,No means you can bring the things which you have learnt through DNA.
    Bodhidharma may be a tamilian, but he taught,lived for Chinese people.His main 7 students, all were chinese, so whats the point in remembering him in tamilnadu.

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