Gruham Review

Movie: Gruham

Cast: Siddharth,Andrea Jeremiah, Atul Kulkarni, Anisha Victor, Suresh and Others

Director : U. Milind Rau

Music Director: Girishh G

Cinematographer: Shreyaas Krisna

Editor Lawrence Kishore

Production company: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures,Etaki Entertainment

Certificate: A

Runtime : 137 minutes

Release  Date: 17th November 2017

Watched at Asian Cinemas, Attapur

Behind the scenes: 

Director Milind Rau and  Siddharth, who has also co-written for Gruham, came with a bold and smart horror movie. The film has already released in Tamil with the title Aval and  in Hindi as The house next door.  Let’s see the how the film was?

Story-Line: 

Krishna (Siddharth) is happy with his wife Lakshmi (Andrea Jeremiah) in a detached location in Himalayas. Paul (Atul Kulkarni) move into their next door and it has a history as old as 80 years. The history is very scary and even the present events points to the past and help us unfolding the mystery of what happened and why it needs to be stopped from happening now again.  Doctor Prasad (Suresh), a psychiatrist tries to aide an young girl, Jennifer (Anisha Victor), daughter of Paul. In his attempts to treat her he unfolds the major demon that is controlling the ghosts and why is it doing so. You have watch the events unfold on screen to completely unravel the mystery.

Performances:

Siddharth proved the actor in him once again. His performance during the last 15 minutes, is a highlight in the film. He doesn't let his body language or his facial expressions deviate from the story. He does perform well in scary scenes too. Anisha Victor performance gives the required punch to many scenes. Her performance in pre-interval is mind blowing. Suresh gets a good character and he delivers an impact ful performance. Andrea Jeremiah, Atul Kulkarni deliver good performances and all others did their job well.

Analysis: 

Writer and director, Milind Rau doesn't really waste time he trying to set up everything. He is into the story with the opening sequences and doesn't really try to give any chance to breathe once the meat of the scares is being served. But he fails in setting up the final twist in more proper and organic manner.  The better execution and strong emotional core to the back story makes it easy watch. 

Technical Values:

Sound mix is one of the highlights in the film. In Hollywood, most of the good horror films have great sound design and Gruham film matched with that standards. Girishh's back ground score  enhance the fear factor. Camera work by Shreyaas Krishna used many colors to bring out the better impact. He adds many lights to the house in such a way that we can feel the scary ambiance. Editing by Lawrence Kishore is another highlight in the movie. He chooses to hold back the information very well, without much conflict of interest to the story. 

Thumbs Up: 

- Technical Values (Sound mix, Lighting, Editing)

- Siddharth & Anisha Victor's Performances

- Screenplay 

- Climax

Thumbs Down: 

- Romance dose

 Final Verdict:

Gruham is one of the best technical brilliancy horror films in recent times. It succeeds to a fair level and one can get good fear-ful experience watching the movie. 

Hollywood films have been trying to master in horror gene but south indian films haven't been able to compete with them in standards. Gruham attempts to do so. 

Must watchable film if you loves to watch/experience/feel serious horror films, Watch this film in good equipped theater to experience the horror feel. Don't miss it.

Review by Manikick Reviews

Rating: 3.25/5