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Movie: Thoonga Nagaram
Director: Gaurav
Cast: Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth, Gaurav, Anjali
Thoonga Nagaram, as the name suggests, is a story set in the backdrop of Madurai – the city that is referred so. Cloud Nine’s production maiden venture, directed by debut director Gaurav, in which he also stars in a role, Thoonga Nagaram is about a bunch of friends and their trials and tribulations in life. Designed as an out and out masala entertainer, Thoonga Nagaram proves to be a dead beat attempt owing to its lack of innovation in script or story. It does get boring after one point in time to watch waywardly guys falling in the hands of trouble and getting even with their villains tactfully. Partly, the movie is narrated in Vadivelu’s voice.
Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth and Gaurav are friends and they land in trouble when they thrash the son of a bigwig in the village for sneak-peeking into the trial room of a textile shop, where a temple priest’s daughter is changing. This thrashing earns them the wrath of the village big shots who unleash a manhunt to nail the friends and kill them.
Of the four friends, one is mute (Nishanth) and he is captured by the villain team that uses him as a pawn to corner the other friends. The others, on the other hand, get the picture and double cross the gangsters. There is also a love story between Vimal and Anjali in the middle of all this hullaballoo.
Thoonga Nagaram is super predictable and has nothing going on for it. The movie lacks zing since the story is run of the mill, the performances are just about average and everything else seems contrived except for a few sequences. Gaurav seems to have a lot to learn in terms of direction and scripting a story. His script actually has enough enthusiasm to carry the movie on its shoulders but Gaurav fails to cash in on the potential, letting the movie plummet to very low levels of mediocrity.
After Kalavani, Vimal has selected a forgettable role for himself with Thoonga Nagaram. The movie has made very little use of his potential. His romantic scenes with Anjali could have been one of the best scenes of the movie – since it had a very touching flashback – but sadly it was not to be. Except for Anjali’s nick name (Theru Trisha, since is a VJ in one of the local TV channels), the romantic angle fails to live up to it.
On the whole, Thoonga Nagaram has had a distant possibility of becoming a better product if only director Gaurav listened to his script that is screaming for attention to get rid of the banalities marring the narrative.
Verdict: This city (Nagaram) has nothing new to offer!
Ratings: 1.5
Movie: Thoonga Nagaram
Director: Gaurav
Cast: Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth, Gaurav, Anjali
Thoonga Nagaram, as the name suggests, is a story set in the backdrop of Madurai – the city that is referred so. Cloud Nine’s production maiden venture, directed by debut director Gaurav, in which he also stars in a role, Thoonga Nagaram is about a bunch of friends and their trials and tribulations in life. Designed as an out and out masala entertainer, Thoonga Nagaram proves to be a dead beat attempt owing to its lack of innovation in script or story. It does get boring after one point in time to watch waywardly guys falling in the hands of trouble and getting even with their villains tactfully. Partly, the movie is narrated in Vadivelu’s voice.
Vimal, Bharani, Nishanth and Gaurav are friends and they land in trouble when they thrash the son of a bigwig in the village for sneak-peeking into the trial room of a textile shop, where a temple priest’s daughter is changing. This thrashing earns them the wrath of the village big shots who unleash a manhunt to nail the friends and kill them.
Of the four friends, one is mute (Nishanth) and he is captured by the villain team that uses him as a pawn to corner the other friends. The others, on the other hand, get the picture and double cross the gangsters. There is also a love story between Vimal and Anjali in the middle of all this hullaballoo.
Thoonga Nagaram is super predictable and has nothing going on for it. The movie lacks zing since the story is run of the mill, the performances are just about average and everything else seems contrived except for a few sequences. Gaurav seems to have a lot to learn in terms of direction and scripting a story. His script actually has enough enthusiasm to carry the movie on its shoulders but Gaurav fails to cash in on the potential, letting the movie plummet to very low levels of mediocrity.
After Kalavani, Vimal has selected a forgettable role for himself with Thoonga Nagaram. The movie has made very little use of his potential. His romantic scenes with Anjali could have been one of the best scenes of the movie – since it had a very touching flashback – but sadly it was not to be. Except for Anjali’s nick name (Theru Trisha, since is a VJ in one of the local TV channels), the romantic angle fails to live up to it.
On the whole, Thoonga Nagaram has had a distant possibility of becoming a better product if only director Gaurav listened to his script that is screaming for attention to get rid of the banalities marring the narrative.
Verdict: This city (Nagaram) has nothing new to offer!
Ratings: 1.5
