The much hyped film released amidst wild expectations seems to be a pot boiler-much ado about nothing.
A legend of Bodhivarman of Pallava Dynasty goes to China and teaches martial arts and Indian medicine and he dies there.
He is revered there as a God and he is accorded pride of place in the Shaolin Temple ,China.
This wafer thin line is taken as a prop up to promote an inane story of Bio-war unleashed by China against India.
The Director seems to have known that there is nothing in the story to promote and hence used Bodhidharman as a marketing tool, and Tamils as well.
Jingoistic Tamil Dialogues rousing Tamil Passions are used to excite Tamil Chauvinism to the exclusion of others.( by the way are the Pallavas Tamils? Historians think otherwise)
Peppered with intrusive songs,lifeless and lack luster presence of Shruti Hassan(some one need to teach her how to keep her hands while delivering dialogues , she also needs her genes to be awakened as in the film to know about acting!),monotonous fight sequences,predictable scene sequences and average Music makes the film worth missing.
Saving grace is Surya’s acting in the first 15 minutes as Bodhidharman and the body language of the Vietnamese villain-probably this is the first film where the villain grabs as much space as the hero!
7aum Arivu (Tamil: 7ஆம் அறிவு; English: Seventh Sense) is a 2011 Tamil science fiction thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss, featuring Suriya, Shruti Haasan and Johnny Tri Nguyen in leading roles. The film, produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin began production in May 2010. The film, featuring cinematography by Ravi K. Chandran and music by Harris Jayaraj, released on 25 October 2011 coinciding with Diwali.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7aum_Arivu
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