The team-up of the director of a National Award winning film, with an artiste who bagged the same honor, with the addition of the recent controversies surrounding this film, put forth the usual high hype, as Naiyaandi hits screens - staring Dhanush, Nazriya, "Parotta" Soori, Sriman and several others.
So, yes, the plot. Uh, jobless, village-residing hero, the youngest of a family of five with two elder brothers, unmarried and beyond the usual marital age, pursues apparent modern heroine, and stalker turns into lover soon. But then, heroine ends up dragging trouble from her side in the form of a doting father, and another love-struck man who is by the way, a bloodthirsty don. What happens to the pair, forms the rest of the story.
The film, housing this ancient plot, attempts to pose as a comedy only to fail in its goal. While several characters - Soori, Imaan 'Annachi', Satish, Sriman and Sathyan, try to make audiences laugh, the maximum they evoke is a few smiles during the film's runtime. The film moves at a snail's pace, and is your very-usual masala film, cooked to the formula : forgettable songs complete with colourful costumes and second-rate choreography. Not only does this film provide anything new, it messes up the old formula to a highly disappointing extent.
The movie, while acting as Dhanush's break into the commercial scene after playing an array of intense characters (3, Mayakkam Enna, Maryaan, Ranjhnaa) comes out a blemish in the actor's shining career. One does wonder if Naiyaandi was actually made by the same man who gave us the impressive Vaagai Sooda Vaa and the light-hearted Kalavaani. After making two films, which seemeed to be both audience-friendly, and worth critical acclaim, Sarkunam has unfortunately bombed this time.
Aditya Baskaran
Lot of hype surrounded this movie...but the plot is very old and treatment boring!
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