Possibly, ‘Ninaithale Inikkum’ may not be a blockbuster or a film successfully crossing 100 days, but there’s a great lesson for our existing filmmakers who are much blindfolded in remaking films without a single change.
Debutant Kumaravelan kick-starts with a bright and commendable show differentiating himself from these filmmakers just replicating the features from original-to-remake versions…. It was weird to watch few moviemakers who never spared even costumes and the wall colors.
We’re sure you should have got your guesses right on whom we are pointing on.
To start off with, ‘Ninaithale Inikkum’ is a film to appreciate for its very rare kind of remake. Yeah! The filmmaker has just adapted the conceptualization of Lal Jose (director of Classmates) and spells a new-fangled treatment, especially with a different screenplay from original version. Trust us! Apart from couple of sequences, rest of the film is completely different from what it appeared in Lal Jose’s flick. Our heartily congrats to Kumaravelan: for these earnest efforts of shaping it uniquely.
The film opens with old students of academic year 2000 batch gathering for a reunion. Well, Shiva (Prithviraj) is making his way from Mumbai to join the occasion where he’ll meet his broken love Meera (Priyamani), close pal (Vishnupriyan), his college-day rival Vasu (Karthik) Karthik (Jeeva) and others. On his journey, he glimpses back to his bittersweet days of college life brimmed with love, friendship, hatred and unbearable pains. In the later span, we’re exposed to a hardcore truth that the entire reunion is nothing about death anniversary of their close friend Sakthi (Sakthi), an asthma patient who passed away during the final year.To accomplish Sakthi’s dreams, his father (Bhagyaraj) launches a music library in their college. Moments later, Meera unable to resist her feelings heads to Shiva’s room to revivify their love.
Unluckily, she’s thrown into extreme shock as Shiva’s neck is chocked with a guitar string.
Immediately, he’s rushed to hospital and cops insist that everyone must stay back in campus until Shiva gets back to consciousness. But doctors aren’t about his status for next 24hrs.
Sakthi’s father is left with no options other than himself setting out to unravel this mysterious incident.But what makes the situations tougher is that – None are sure whether it’s an attempt to suicide or homicide.
The film opens with slow-paced treatment as some of the ingredients in college days offer a feel of déjà vu. But nothing to worry: its sudden turn of events ever since penultimate moments to intermission and the suspense keeps it going till the climax. However, Kumaravelan has repeated few scenes from yesteryear films. Much exemplifying one is Prithviraj, Sakthi and Vishnupriyan watching movie with eunuchs. As known to everyone, it’s a famous comedy track from ‘Eeramaana Rojave’. The entire first half goes much dependent on songs and comedy tracks until the ‘point of twist’ we mentioned above.
Prithviraj has completely drawn himself out from his show in original version. Of course, you’ll feel the difference if compared with both the versions. Indeed, the actor tries out some good steps on dance and engrosses us with it. Ah! After a long time Priyamani gets a role to travel along full story. She plays her part well and we need to compliment her for avoiding skin shows. Karthik Kumar in the role of arrogant rich guy does justice to his role. Bhagyaraj has been offered with interesting dialogues that wins applause at an ease. Don’t miss the final touch rendered by him as in conversation with Prithviraj during climax. ‘Lollu Sabha’ fame Jeeva excels well with a substantial role. It’s nice to see him performing a full-fledged role and in mere future, he may shine over the screens with even non-comical roles. Sakthi suits the space of an innocuous lad and evokes sympathy amongst us with his likeable role.Vishnupriyan is okay.
Vijay Antony’s musical score embellishes the flick in terms of songs. Be it the melodious ones or the fast-beat folk songs, they make you feet-tapping. Cinematography by Balasubramaniam makes the film enriched with best visuals.
On the final not, ‘Ninaithale Inikkum’ is a film to watch out for the gripping tale and interesting screenplay.
What works: Lal Jose’s script, appealing screenplay, strong characterizations, Musical score by Vijay Antony, cinematography, dialogues and shorter duration (120mins)
What doesn’t work: Unwanted song (Sexy Lady), few repeated comedy tracks, the moment where suspense is broken (could’ve been done slightly different).
Verdict: Worth watching…
