Nenjathai Killadhe

Cast: Vikranth, Bharathi, Vikramadhitya, Nizhalgal Ravi, Manivannan, Thalaivasal Vijay, Sarany
Language: Tamil
Banner: Blue Waters Movie Makers
Director: Ahathiyan
Producer: Blue Waters Movie Makers
Camera: D.Sankar
Music: Prem.Ge.Amaren
Year: 2008

Director Ahathiyan of Kadal Kottai fame has offered this film as a Valentine's Day gift. The story is about a rich youth who is out to gain new experiences in life and in the process, finds a lover but loses her in the end. The convoluted story is partly mystifying and partly amusing.

The film is stretched with bizarre episodes which are supposed to impart new experiences to the hero. It is doubtful whether the director has creating the desired impact, while putting across the theme.

Vasan (Vikranth) is the son of a rich industrialist (Manivannan). He yearns for new experiences in life. For this, he goes to a five-star hotel, eats there and does not pay the bill saying he has no money. The police is summoned to deal with the youngster. During questioning, he tells the police that he has done so to gain new experience. Inspector Yugendran becomes his friend.

Vikranth pleads guilty of a crime which he has not committed and goes to jail for the sake of friendship. He strikes a rapport with a sex worker, takes her around and then goes home after putting her up in his guest house for the night. For him, these are varied experiences.

Its not long before Vikranth meets a documentary film-maker (Bharathi). They decide to move together, eat together and sleep in the same bed for seven days. This 'togetherness' should however, be devoid of love or infatuation. In this test of character, it is Bharathi who finally fails. She falls in love with Vikranth. He, however, spurns her initially, but at one stage, he too starts loving her. But by then, as it turns out, it is too late.

For Vikranth, this is a character that throws fresh challenges before him. One can see he has honed his acting skills. He shows maturity when he accepts without getting agitated that his father has another wife. The way he regards her as his own mother and brings her home is touching. He personifies calmness when his sister gets a love letter from a boy whom he rescues from his father's henchmen. Vikranth climbs a new high in his performance when he takes Bharathi to an orphanage on her birthday giving her a pleasant surprise. He is pictured as a sadist in sequences when he remains indifferent to Bharathi's overtures, and even hurts her with his comment that she can find a 'ready-made" lover if she visits the City Centre or Spencer Plaza. He further whips her up by going to her house and tells her that he does not love her.

Bharathi has done her part reasonably well. She looks stunning in some scenes. Vikramadithyan has not much do.

The Manivannan-Saranya scenes are those which infuse life to the film. Nizhalgal Ravi as a psychiatrist is dignified. There is no comedy track, but Nizhalgal Ravi fills this space.

Prem's tunes are ineffective. The background music sounds like light music. There is only one song that stands out among the lot.

Director Ahathiyan has scrupulously kept out violence, surprise twists and other ingredients that necessarily go into a commercial film.

The minus points are the contradictions in the story, bizarre episodes for character building and lengthy dialogues between the hero and the heroine. Cinematography is appreciable.

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