Nimirndhu Nil

A typical Shankar's theme, about a man rising against corruption in India. The director got too communistic and too emotional writing the script and so spoiled the movie. The songs were good but the duet songs were too un-appropriate. The first half was okay but the latter was way too bad. I could see a lot of connections with the theme of Anniyan, Indian and even of Muragadoss's Ramana. Inspite of all the negatives mentioned above, I still feel there are some great comedy scenes (at the latter half with the villains). The movie was fast paced with lot of logical errors. My verdict : A watchable movie for the comedy. Quite entertaining but less brainy.

In this age, it is the director Samuthirakani who brings a good message for the youngsters. He has done many others like this. Actor Ravi's dual acting with very different characters is difficult but he made it. So was the heroine Amala Paul and hero's friend to keep lighter moments. It seems as though directors are very good at giving ideas to politicians who may not be smart otherwise. There is a clever plot by the bribe recipients who have a lot at stake to forge unity and find a solution. They do find one but that is defeated too at the end. Unless the good stands up and fights the evil, evil only proliferate. It may start off as a small percentage, but it has the potential and will spread widely if not stopped.

After reading a number of positive reviews of this, plus it's dominance on top of the Chennai box office on release, I had high expectations of it; maybe too high. The first 30 minutes are both weak and unfunny but then the film thankfully improves. The best part of the film is actually its last 30 minutes when the story ups its ante. The middle bit you could really do without. Yes, the message embodied in the film is important and brave and yes Jeyam Ravi is a reliable star but that's not enough to make this even half the radical film some reviews are making it out to be. It's a typical action semi-thriller with a message, nothing more. The dual role in Tamil cinema is also becoming tiresome these days and strangely I preferred Jeyam as the alter-ego, Narasimha Reddy. Many people will enjoy this film and all the actors do a fairly decent job but there is, in my opinion, nothing beyond that. When Tamil cinema is starting to turn out really different scripts like 'Soodhu Kavvum', 'Moodar Koodam' and even 'Kumki', it makes outdated over-the-top commercial fare like this pale in comparison. The music is fairly forgettable too with the exception "Negizhiyinil" which has the potential to really blow up. I debated between giving this film a 6, because it was fairly entertaining in parts vs. giving it a 4 because it'll be old news by next month and probably long forgotten-- my score on the review tells you which one I opted for. The one saving grace is Amala Paul who turns out a strong performance; I predict bigger things for her over the coming years. Overall, a disappointing release.

Nimirndhu Nil(2014) Review: Anti corruption tales are not new to Tamil cinema where we had major actors' ace directors' and huge production value invested enough in this genre "Nimirndhu Nil" fits this category as well.

Plot majorly focuses on anti corruption, bribe on Government sectors and how an ordinary individual takes things on his hands to make a corruption free environment. Hmm yes I know what you are thinking this one line we have heard and seen in so many yester year releases?! Yes its right I also felt the same. So much of cliché from movies like Anniyan, Indian, Citizen, Samurai, Mudhalvan, Satyagraha (Hindi recent flick). Particularly Anti corruption wing and the name Aravind even a small child will say it resembles AAI. Can't help my mind instinct thinking of Anniyan Rules Ramanujam role during the intro portrayal of Ravi.

Screenplay was speedy enough to keep you engaged in the first half and the second half of the movie became corrupted with unnecessary character inclusions, song sequences and item numbers.

Casting side we find huge ensemble of support cast from Tamil industry. Off course Ravi did a decent performance on his role. Vijay TV Gopi was natural in his role which fits his real profession as well. Suri and Amala had good screen space on the start then lost track. Sarath kumar's role did not definitely stay on your heart.

On the whole I have to say a racy first-half and a crap second- half.

-Reviewed by Sivakumar Balachandran (bsiva84@gmail.com)

The movie starts well. A loyalist man faces trouble in the world. Well that's the truth of the world. I have never heard of a story where good guys won and bad guys lost. It's always evil wins.

The movie typically got over in the intermission. I don't know why another jayam ravi character came. Since the intro of that character, the movie went into Telugu masala mode. Songs for him, lame jokes, sex comedy uffff. Tiring. Why amala paul in this movie? Why that one slow song in between the movie affecting its pace?

Dialogues were spot on. 1st half was samuthrakani's movie. 2nd half was non-sense.

In that movie itself they say play one namitha song people will forget everything. That's the reality of the world. What do you think is the capacity of the issue explained in the movie? Hardly 3 days? That too if people involved are big shots. Else it is just an hour news.

I wanted to write this review after the sting operation done by Madan ravichandran on journalists. It blasted like anything on YouTube last week. Hardly stayed for 3 days. Outside of the 1M people on YouTube no one knows about it. With these kind of people in world there is nothing called needhi, nyayam, nermai.