Aarathu Sinam (2016)
Director: Arivazhagan Venkatachalam · Writer: Arivazhagan Venkatachalam
An alcoholic cop accepts to investigate a case involving a couple of gruesome murders. Will the case be the redemption that he was waiting for?
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Cast
Arulnithi
Aravind 
Aishwarya Rajesh
Mia 
Aishwarya Dutta
Varsha 
Radha Ravi
Joint Commissioner 
Anupama Kumar
Saradha / Santhosh's Sister 
Gaurav Narayanan
Peter / Santhosh 
Tulasi
Aravind's Mother 
R. N. R. Manohar
Minister 
Robo Shankar
Assistant Commissioner 
Ramesh Thilak
Taxi Driver 
Aadhira Pandilakshmi
Charle
Arokiya Raj User Reviews (1)
As it happened with Papanasam, a remake of the director's Drishyam, the Tamil remake of his Memories, is also tonally different from the original. That film was as much an emotional drama as it was an investigative thriller — it was about a cop who let his wife and child get killed before his eyes, and how he gets his chance at redemption when he is handed a case involving a 'serial killer'. Director Arivazhan takes this plot, underplays the redemption arc and turns Aarathu Sinam into a murder mystery that also happens to have a tragedy as a sub-plot. This treatment adds pace to the plot but robs the film of the psychological and religious layers, and turn it into a typical thriller. That said, the film manages to keep us engaged from start to finish. The director is no stranger to an investigative thriller (his debut film, Eeram was one till its interval point), and nicely sets up …
