A critic of Dinamalar rated the film 2.75/5 stars and wrote, " Despite having a innovative idea, the film lacks the emotional connection.Read at source
Sabdham 2025 
Synopsis
Sabdham
Sabdham (transl. Sound) is a 2025 Indian Tamil language horror thriller film written and directed by Arivazhagan. The film is jointly produced by Siva and S.
- Director
- Arivazhagan Venkatachalam
- Studio
- —
- Run time
- 146 min
- Language
- Tamil
Reviews
6 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Unfavorable
Critics' aggregate for Sabdham is 49/100 from 5 scored critic/publication reviews.
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-omdb-enricher) from 6 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Watch points
- direction
Positive 4
Anusha Sundar of OTTPlay gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Sabdham is a technically strong film which sets a great premise for a horror film.Read at source
Kirubhakar Purushothaman of News 18 rated 2.5/5 and wrote, "The technical brilliance of Sabdham is resounding.Read at source
M Suganth of The Times of India gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Sabdham remains intriguing until the first half when along with its protagonist, we, too, remain puzzled about what's happening. the post-interval portions soon devolve into something that's fairly generic.Read at source
Critical 2
Gopinath Rajendran of The Hindu wrote "In an attempt to be safe and sound with its concept, Sabdham misses the high notes it requires to work, making us a mute spectator of director Arivazhagan’s most underwhelming feature film outing yet."Read at source
Prashanth Vallavan of The New Indian Express rated 2/5 and wrote, "Even though the film has a number of interesting ideas, they do not rise up in coherence to create a pleasing symphony.Read at source
Media & trailers
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Details
Soundtrack
- Maaya Maaya Vijay Yesudas
- Grandma Song Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
Technical specs
- Run time
- 146 min
- Language
- Tamil
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Arivazhagan Venkatachalam
Trivia
- The film was jointly produced by Siva and S. Banupriya Siva under the banners 7G Films and AAlpha Frames.
- Principal photography commenced in December 2022 in Munnar, with additional schedules filmed in Chennai and Mumbai.
- A college set erected for the film's schedule cost approximately ₹1 crore.
- The film stars Aadhi and Lakshmi Menon, marking their first pairing together.
- Simran was cast in an important character role, playing the antagonist Dr. Diana.
- Music for the film was composed by S. Thaman, marking his fourth collaboration with director Arivazhagan.
