Aaryan

2025 [TAMIL]

Action / Crime / Thriller

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 3045 3K

Director

Praveen K. Photo
Praveen K.

Top cast

Jeeva Subramanian Photo
Jeeva Subramanian as
Shraddha Srinath Photo
Shraddha Srinath as Nayana
Vishnu Vishal Photo
Vishnu Vishal as Arivudai Nambi
Abishek Joseph George Photo
Abishek Joseph George as Yuvraj
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1.19 GB
1280*536
Tamil 2.0
NR
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24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 8
2.43 GB
1920*804
Tamil 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 8
2.2 GB
1920*804
Tamil 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sidharthsandy 5 / 10

Exceptional idea, mediocre movie

Needs to use logic a bit more for crime thriller, have to follow common sense.Can't have a detective story and let scenes happen by chance.Could have corrected a lot of scenes - - like wife character was not required, a simple phone call could have resolved half the problems playing out, some of the murder tools could have easily been also affected standby people too, unnecessary fight sequences.Casting was done good.My first review ever, I normally don't review but this movie forced me to do it.. had so much potential could have been little better screenplay and could been one of these of 2025.
Reviewed by arungeorge13 4 / 10

A lot of Aaryan somehow feels like a deliberate callback to Vishnu Vishal's 2018 sleeper hit Ratsasan, minus its writing and staging ingenuity. The protagonist's personal journey mattered a lot more in that film, whereas in Aaryan, it comes across as filler. Here, the killer is revealed right at the start (Selvaraghavan, spoiled in the trailer) in an intriguing opening stretch, and he offs himself before claiming he'll kill five people in the subsequent five days, with their names being revealed an hour before the deed. So, this isn't a whodunnit. It's a "who'll be the victims?" thriller. However, for a storyline like this to hit hard enough, there has to be solid intent and reasoning to back it up. While the messaging has some significance in the present, it still lacks the punch to evoke strong emotions in the audience.To summarize, Selvaraghavan's baddie "sells" the philosophy behind his crimes somewhat well, but there seem to be inconsistencies in the writing. We're told he's a failed writer at first, then suddenly a hacker, a forensic scientist, and whatnot.. only to stretch the cinematic possibilities of how inventively he can kill from beyond the grave. Think of it like Saw II, minus the gore and guts and twists. We also get two (or three?) fight sequences for Vishnu Vishal's cop, and they have no clear payoffs. Ghibran's score worked for me big time in Ratsasan where the thrills felt organic, but he overscores Aaryan for no good reason. 99% of the film is punctuated by generic-sounding, beat-driven music. Among the ladies, Maanasa Choudhary (so cute!) is wasted in an inconsequential role. Shraddha Srinath gets a comparatively better character, but again, used as a plot device.
Reviewed by virindra 5 / 10

A killer concept. A very average movie.

Alagar (K. Selvaraghavan) is a loner who steps out of his house one day with a plan: he walks into a talk-show studio, holds the host and audience hostage and announces that he has written a book. A book no publisher wanted. Its story? A serial killer who will murder one person a day for five days, announcing each victim's first name one hour before the killing. The talk-show host laughs it off, calling it unoriginal. Alagar laughs too and kills himself the moment the police break in.And then, the next day, someone dies.Then the next. And suddenly, the police must chase a killer who is already dead.On paper, Aaryan sounds fantastic. The premise could've been a sharp, nerve-tightening thriller. But the execution feels straight out of a dusty VHS shelf from the 90s. The acting is flat across the board. Alagar is supposed to be the chilling mastermind behind a decade-long revenge plan, but he never comes off as frightening, layered, or even particularly clever.The "hero," Vishnu Vishal, doesn't help either. He plays another brooding, lone-wolf cop, except his perfectly styled hair and tailored shirts make him look more like a fashion model on his way to brunch than someone who hasn't slept properly in ten years. Introducing him in slow motion, fists flying dramatically, might have worked in 2002, but in 2025 it's unintentionally funny.And then there's the killing plan itself.It sounds intricate. But the moment you think about it, the whole thing collapses.Since Alagar is dead, he needs his victims to follow their routines with absurd precision. But how could he possibly predict something like a random diver choosing that specific air tank on that specific day at that exact moment? He couldn't. John Doe (Se7en) and Jigsaw (Saw) would roll their eyes. Alagar supposedly planned this for a decade, but everything depends on coincidences so fragile that a butterfly sneezing could ruin the sequence.The pacing is another problem. Whenever the police are racing against the clock, the movie suddenly gets tense, but the acting remains unintentionally hilarious. Then the film slams the brakes to 40 km/h to deliver unnecessary backstories: the hero's random romance, or the tragic lives of the soon-to-be victims. These scenes don't deepen the narrative; they just derail it.By the end, Aryan left me wondering what genre it wanted to be. Thriller? Drama? Soap opera with bombs? The idea is strong, but the execution can't keep up. It's like someone took a high-concept script and shot it with 90s directing tools, 2025 slow-motion testosterone and a huge pile of coincidences.
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