Debutant director Arun Vaidyanathan's 'Achamundu Achamundu' deals with a sensitive subject in a neat and innovative making style which is new for Tamil cinema. When we are used to the contrived stunt sequences and glamorous dance moves, the director turns our head to show a new genre still exists apart from love and a movie could be made as simple as this.

Technically, the quality of the film is top notch with the newly introduced Red One camera format leveraging the movie to new heights and paving way for a new era of Tamil cinema which could be comfortably watched in Blu-Ray format. Prasanna and Sneha are at ease in the role of NRI Tamil couples thriving hard to keep up their native culture while coping up with the isolated milieu of USA.

Living in New Jersey, USA is the NRI couple Senthikumar (Prasanna) and Malini (Sneha) with their six-year-old daughter Rithika (Akshaya). Their life goes just like any other Indians settled abroad with a carving for nativity right from listening to MGR songs in their car stereo to doing Pujas at home and eating Poriyal, Rasam for dinner. Everything is Picture Perfect until Malini hires a neighborhood painter Roberston (John Shea) to make their basement look better. The culprit's eye fall on something very delicate and the person which one might not have imagined even in the wildest dreams to become a victim of abuse. The protective father defending his family against the abomination forms the end.

The storyline doesn't have a start or end as it travels smoothly after revealing what is going to happen in the end which is good yet somewhat makes us lose interest too. Arun Vaidyanathan deserves credit for selecting a perfect cast where Prasanna and Sneha submerge into the roles expressing equal amounts of romance and tiffs a real life couple usually has.

Prasanna needs a special mention for opting a subject without heroism where stars aspire to climb stardom with shortcuts and commercial craps. Sneha is gorgeous at times, homely often and performed good. The debutant girl Akshaya has the potential to be a child star if offered good roles like these. Hollywood actor John Shea steals the show for his crooked face and piercing eyes helps him big time to be a menacing yet tacit antagonist.

Editing by Satish is crisp. After a hiatus, music composer Karthik Raja has made a comeback with a bang. His grand orchestral composition and eerie tunes is what fills a major portion of the film but unavoidably it is cacophonous at times. The director has made the film for niche audience and it would be hard for the other centres to comprehend such a subject related to pedophile even though it exists at large in our society. Entertainment wise the film lags big time but commercially if it succeeds our cinema would touch new heights.

'Achamundu Achamundu' is innovative, crisp and captivating but only if you have a penchant for good cinema.

Verdict: Good First Time Effort