Kabadam

Kabadam (transl. Hypocrisy) is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by Jothimurugan and starring Sachin and Angana Roy. The films is the third Tamil remake of Across the Hall (2009) after Unnodu Oru Naal (2013) and Ner Ethir (2014) and was released to negative reviews.

Kabadam
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jothimurugan
Written by	M. K. Mani (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Jothimurugan
Story by	Jothimuguran
Produced by	Chozha S. Ponnuragam
Starring	Sachin Angana Roy
Cinematography	K. Thirunavukkarasu
Edited by	K. Balasubramaniam
Music by	Sazzy
Production company	Chozha Creations
Distributed by	Mountain Movie Makers
Release date	22 August 2014 (2014-08-22)[1]
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Cast

• Sachin as Vichu
• Adithya as Shiva
• Angana Roy as Padmini
• Ranika as Kavitha
• Kadhal Saravanan as Kalyanam, hotel room boy
• Jagadish Dharmaraj as Padmini's father
• Hema as Padmini's mother
• Ashwin as Ashwin

Production

Jothimurugan previously worked as an assistant director to Chimbudevan, Radha Mohan and Selvaraghavan. Sachin, who worked as a sound engineer to A. R. Rahman and acted in Yaathumagi (2010), returned to films after a hiatus. Angana Roy played a role with negative shades.^[2] The film was given an A certificate.^[3] The film was reportedly dubbed in Sinhalese in 2012.^[4]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Sazzy.^[5]

All lyrics are written by Na. Muthukumar.

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Aan Pen"	Sachin	4:30
2.	"Unnale Naan Maarinen"	Hariharan, Sachin	5:25
3.	"Hey Pulla"	Sunitha Sarathy, Sachin	4:45
4.	"Sandaali"	Sachin, Shan Sadesh	3:54
5.	"Edhai Thedi"	Mahesh Vinayagam	3:42
6.	"Padmini"	Sachin	2:02
Total length:			24:18

Reception

Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express wrote that "Not surprisingly the cast end up with some very uninspiring performances. Kabadam is the worst of the three 'remakes'".^[6] A critic from Dinamalar concluded that the film was a counterfeit film.^[7] A critic from iFlicks wrote that "Director Jyothi Murugan has repeated a good old story and there is nothing new about the screenplay. The first half is a bit boring but the second half maintains a good pace".^[8]