Athu

About A Spirit, But Not Spirited

Suddenly, horror is the flavor of the season in filmdom. You have Ram Gopal Varma's Factory churning out flicks after flicks that are about ghosts, spirits and other scary things. In Tamil itself you had Shock.

Adhu, at core, is about the struggles of a blind played by Sneha encountering a spirit after she undergoes eye transplantation --- courtesy a young woman raped and murdered. Though the film has frames evoking horror, courtesy Selvakumar's cinematography and Yuvan Shankar Raja's re-recording,…