Sabdham
strong injury detail, horror, violence
Director(s)Arivazhagan Venkatachalam
Production year2025
Release date27/02/2025
Genre(s)Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Approx. running minutes146m
CastSimran, Laila, Lakshmi Menon
Sabdham
strong injury detail, horror, violence
In this Tamil-language horror thriller, a paranormal investigator is employed by a university to look into a series of m ...
In this Tamil-language horror thriller, a paranormal investigator is employed by a university to look into a series of mysterious deaths that some are attributing to supernatural causes.
violence
threat and horror
language
discrimination
sexual violence and sexual threat
suicide and self-harm
injury detail
sex
strong injury detail, horror, violence
Classified Date:
26/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Big Films limited
violence
A person is beaten to death, without graphic injury detail. During a crunchy fight scene, a woman’s head is repeatedly struck against a metal object. A police officer hits a suspect.
threat and horror
People are menaced, possessed or compelled to harm themselves during sustained scenes of supernatural horror. A frightened child is subjected to a dangerous medical experiment.
language
Bad language includes ‘shit’, ‘damn’, ‘hell’ and ‘God’.
discrimination
There are scenes of ableist discrimination, including a sequence in which children with intellectual and physical disabilities are experimented on. However, discrimination is clearly not condoned by the film as a whole.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is an undetailed verbal reference to a police investigation into a gang rape.
suicide and self-harm
Several people are compelled by fantastical forces to self-harm or take their own lives.
injury detail
There is strong bloody detail in the aftermath of deaths, as well as sight of blood splattering onto a wall during an off-screen killing. A morgue scene contains close-up sight of withered decomposing corpses.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Classified date26/24/2025
LanguageTamil
violence
threat and horror
language
discrimination
sexual violence and sexual threat
suicide and self-harm
injury detail
sex
Director(s)Arivazhagan Venkatachalam
Production year2025
Release date27/02/2025
Genre(s)Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Approx. running minutes146m
CastSimran, Laila, Lakshmi Menon
strong injury detail, horror, violence
Classified Date:
26/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Big Films limited
violence
A person is beaten to death, without graphic injury detail. During a crunchy fight scene, a woman’s head is repeatedly struck against a metal object. A police officer hits a suspect.
threat and horror
People are menaced, possessed or compelled to harm themselves during sustained scenes of supernatural horror. A frightened child is subjected to a dangerous medical experiment.
language
Bad language includes ‘shit’, ‘damn’, ‘hell’ and ‘God’.
discrimination
There are scenes of ableist discrimination, including a sequence in which children with intellectual and physical disabilities are experimented on. However, discrimination is clearly not condoned by the film as a whole.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is an undetailed verbal reference to a police investigation into a gang rape.
suicide and self-harm
Several people are compelled by fantastical forces to self-harm or take their own lives.
injury detail
There is strong bloody detail in the aftermath of deaths, as well as sight of blood splattering onto a wall during an off-screen killing. A morgue scene contains close-up sight of withered decomposing corpses.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Classified date26/24/2025
LanguageTamil