What elevates Yaavarum Nalam from your average spooky thrillers is the fact that there are no usual clichés that one associates with films in this genre. The film does not use conventional and predictable spook effects like a creaky doors, ghost jumping out of the boxes, tables and chairs moving about, an in your face scary encounter, head turning around, blood dripping from pipes, ghost attack etc..

Manohar (Madhavan), is a civil engineer who lives in a joint family. His brother (Hari Nair) and his wife (Ameetha) and Manohar and his wife (Neetu Chandra) live happily together without any qualms. The brothers buy a flat 13 B in a huge apartment. They move to the flat with their mega-serial addict mother (Saranya). Strange things start to happen as they occupy the flat. Manohar’s image captured on his mobile appears distorted. The lift doesn’t work when Manohar steps in.  But he gets more shock when he watches a mega-serial ‘Yaavarum Nalam’ on a private satellite channel. Whatever things that unfolds in the serial starts to happen in his real life. This hocks him. He comes across Dr Balu (Sachin Khanderkar), who speaks about paranormal things.

Technically the film is very good with P.C Sreeram’s lighting and camera which dictates the mood and look of the film, Sreekar Prasad’s editing without using any gimmicks normally seen in a horror film. Shankar Ehsaan Loy’s music especially the background score and Thamarai’s lyrics raise the bar. What the film needs is a bit of trimming in the second half to make it slicker.