Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/moviereview/4792412.cms

address a serious global issue in his debut flick Achamundu Achamundu and passes the muster with flying colors.

Behindwoods

http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-reviews/reviews-2/achchamundu-achchamundu.html

The most gripping thing about ‘Achchamundu! Achchamundu!’ is that it deals with a fear lurking in the country: not with ghosts or the supernatural kind, but a real, looming issue. The film will haunt you, wrench your guts, make you feel uneasy, and therein lies its success.

Bottomline

A world class flick, dealing with an utterly local issue. Intelligent movie goers will not want to miss this one.

Indiaglitz

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/review/10044.html

Logic and reasoning, however, play a great part in the screenplay, written by Arun Vaidhyanathan, and that keeps you keenly interested in their lifestyle, their conversations peppered liberally with references to life in India. Watching someone else's life through a microscope is always intriguing and this couple does it with such style and verve that you can't help applauding it. Achchamundu is a must watch!

Rediff

http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/jul/17/review-achamundu.htm

Finesse marks the film and the casting is commendable.Natural treatment and spontaneous performances are AA’s forte. Vaidyanathan projects a convincing, true-to-life, middle class family. AA does its director proud!

Hindu

http://www.hindu.com/cp/2009/07/17/stories/2009071750070300.htm

Sify.com

Good things come in small packages. With fine acting and crisp dialogues, debutant NRI director Arun Vaidyanathan’s Achchamundu Achchamundu, is alternative cinema with finesse.

It’s a gutsy film because it dares to explore unchartered territories in Tamil cinema and expose the dark side of child abuse and pedophilia lurking in our society. The director should be appreciated and lauded for his treatment of a sensitive subject, without ever turning his camera into a voyeur. Arun Vaidyanathan deserves a pat on his back for pushing the cinematic envelope and trying out something different and bringing savvy freshness to the form hitherto unexplored.

Director Arun Vaidyanathan stuns us with debut master piece 'Achchamundu! Achchamundu!' - NDTV Hindu.

'Achchamundu is one of the Top Tamil films of 2009' - Says Rediff, Behindwoods and numerous critics!

Best Feature - 7th International Chennai international film festival

Best Homegrown Feature - Garden State film festival

Shanghai International Film Festival

Cairo International film festival

International film festival of India

Honorable mention - Skip City Digital film festival, Japan

Pune International film festival

The director of the movie Arun Vaidyanadhan received Media Guild Award for creating public awareness on Child Sex Abuse.