Quick Review: Aruvam

By Rinku Gupta In director Sai Sekhar's horror thriller, Siddharth plays a food safety officer with a sharp sense of smell while Catherine Tresa , conversely, is born with a smelling disability. The duo meet and as usual the hero falls for her and wants to marry her. But she says no because she feels her disability will weigh down the relationship. On the other side there is the parallel story of the hero getting on the wrong side of a bunch of villains ( which include the Vedhalam baddie Kabir Duhan Singh) who are into food adulteration, incurring the wrath of our upright hero. When the baddies get together and kill him, he returns as a spirit, to wreak revenge. Does his plan work? How does his lady love react when she comes to know a bizarre truth that has drawn her into this saga? As Siddharth had promised in the press meet, the horror is not scary, giving you the chills. Instead it has a sympathy angle given the bad vs good angle. The screenplay goes back and for...