Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe

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Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe Movie Review

Director: Lakshmy Ramakrishnan
Cast: Shabeer, Piaa Bajpai and Sruthi Hariharan
Music: Madley Blues

Lakshmi Ramakrishnan’s second directorial venture is an attempt by her to make a film with commercial ingredients. She has succeeded to make it a decent ride to a certain extent, with a topical subject.

The trouble is she has tried to mix three genres together- road movie, esponage thriller and mother-daughter sentiments. However her commercial packaging sticks out like a sore thumb and characterisation is weak.

The director uses a multi-strand narrative, to tell the story under two hours. The film is set against the backdrop of a fuel crisis, with pumps shutting down. Chandru (Shabeer), is a rough and tough guy who has rebelled against his father, the local landlord and a petrol pump owner Subramaniyam (Y Gee Mahendran). He is conned by a MLA and fixer Kaleeswaran (AL Alagappan) to transport 2,000 litres of stolen diesel from Trichy to Karaikal for a terrorist group who have hacked into Kalpakkam power plant!

Meanwhile there are a host of other charcters with their own agenda – a singer Sita (Viji Chandrasekhar) who was gangraped at a young age and her confused daughter Maya (Pia Bajpai), who wants to know who her father is, Maha (Sruthi) who is on the run with her lower caste lover, and the crude guy (Thambi Ramaiah) and a central minister (Lakshmy Ramakrishnan) who is hand in glove with the bad guys!

The flashbacks are told through songs, lovely music by Madley Blues. The director has tried to wove in the sub plots to the narratives but they make the film drag. The characterisation is half baked and their motives are suspect, with an ending that looks compromised for the feel good factor.

Pia Bajpai does her role neatly, a change from her earlier films. Lakshmy’s intentions are good but her final product is not up to the mark.

[MysteRy]

Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe Music Review

Cast:  Shabeer, Pia Bajpai, Shruti Hariharan
Director: Lakshmi Ramakrishnan
Production: A.V.Anoop
Music Director: Madley Blues
Lyricist: Na.Muthukumar

After delivering the highly acclaimed ‘Aarohanam’ Lakshmy  Ramakrishnan is back with a road movie, and for this genre she aptly picked the ‘Madly Blues’ who composed for ‘Sutta Kadhai’. Keep scrolling down to know how they performed in their second outing.

Hey Sutrum Bhoomi – Mili Nair, Harish Venkat
The album starts off with a lovely guitar strumming and Mili Nair’s vocals tunes our mood right away with the music chords. Harish Venkat, who joins in the mid way takes the baton from Mili and pours more energy to the track. The drums start to dominate in the second part of the song for a while, and Keba Jeremiah has completed the track with his guitar in the last 20 second to round off the number.

Kaligalam –Shankar Mahadevan

The zeal in Shankar Mahadevan’s voice is unmatchable, and the composers have given staged a brilliant tune to showcase his skills. The drums & electric guitars takes the first interlude, and Thavil- Nadhaswaram keeps you in the groove from the second stanza. The orchestration is impressive, and Shankar has played around the tune with his brilliant improvisations.

Yaar –Nandini Srikar
Medley Blues tried a fusion here by merging soft rock with a Carnatic base. Na. Muthukumar’s lyrics are sublime and the way Nandini has rendered them passionately. Once again the composers display supreme confidence in handling the electric guitars and drums. Hope the song does not get wasted as a montage in the film.

Yaarum Pakkama –Chinmayi
The moment we think that, Madley Blues can deliver tracks based on guitars alone; they surprise us with a glorious track dominated  by Violins. For a change, Chinmayi does not sound the way she used to, and stepped out of her comfort zone after a long time to complement the racy composition. If you are looking for a never heard ringtone; please cut the interlude between 1.09-1.45; a stupendous violin+drums piece!