India, Feb. 12 -- Watching Tu Yaa Main almost became an embarrassing experience in the climax. In this survival thriller, a crocodile ends up in the same swimming pool as the lead characters, Avani Shah (Shanaya Kapoor) and Maruti Kadam (Adarsh Gourav). Their struggle is to find a way out, and then come the inevitable nail-biting moments. One particular sequence had me on the edge of my seat, and I actually gasped.

The good news: this embarrassment also means the film achieves what it sets out to do.

Directed by Bejoy Nambiar, the film is an adaptation of the 2018 Thai horror thriller The Pool (story adapted by Himanshu Sharma, written by Abhishek Arun Bandekar). Avani is a popular social media content creator with millions of followers...