‘Iraivan,’ starring Jayam Ravi, Nayanthara and Rahul Bose, sets up a promising psycho-thriller premise, but struggles to tie it all together
I Ahmed’s Iraivan faces an issue that this new age of content demands us to be aware of; the film is testimony to the fact that the shelf-life of ideas is shrinking and that you always need to be a step ahead of others.
In recent years, we have seen a fair share of psycho-thrillers that successfully piggybacked on the comeback of the genre, thanks to Raatsasan. But the problem with Iraivan, a pure-genre psycho-thriller starring Jayam Ravi and Nayanthara — releasing almost a year after it wrapped production — is that we got a surprise hit in the meantime withPor Thozhil, a film that shares a tad too many similarities with Iraivan.
