Tamizhuku En Ondrai Azhuthavum (2015)

★ 7.7 2h 21m IMDb

The city's mobile networks are down due to a solar flare, and Vasanth, an inventive youngster, tries to restore it. Mukil can save his lover only if he can get through to her over phone. Meanwhile, a terrorist will be able to activate the bomb he has planted in a taxi if Vasanth succeeds!

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Nakul
Nakul as Vasanth Age 41 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Nakul also known as Nagulan, is a Tamil film actor and playback singer. Brother of former film actress Devayani, he debuted as a lead actor in the 2003 film Boys directed by S. Shankar, in which he al...
V R Dinesh
V R Dinesh as Mukil Age 42 · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India Dinesh is a Tamil film actor, who has appeared in leading roles. He made his breakthrough playing the lead role in Attakathi (2012) portraying the role of Dinakaran. Dinesh completed his high school a...
Bindu Madhavi
Bindu Madhavi as Simi Age 41 · Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India Bindu Madhavi is an Indian model and film actress, who mainly works in Tamil and Telugu films. She has made her debut in the 2008 Tamil film, Pokkisham..
Aishwarya Dutta
Aishwarya Dutta as Harini Age 36 · Kolkata, India Aishwarya Dutta is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil films. She made her acting debut with Ramprakash Rayappa's Tamizhuku En Ondrai Azhuthavum (2015), which opened to positive reviews and bo...
Sathish
Sathish as Raja Age 38 · Elampillai, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India Sathish Muthukrishnan (born 23 May 1987) is an Indian film actor working in the Tamil film industry. He made a breakthrough portraying a role alongside Sivakarthikeyan in Ethir Neechal (2013). He won...
Urvashi
Urvashi Age 57 · Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Kavitha Ranjini, known by the stage name Urvashi is an Indian film actress, dubbing artist, television host, script dialogue writer and producer known for her works in the Southern film industry. Urva...

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timesofindia 7/10 Mar 13, 2015
A solar flare hits the Earth and mobile communication across the city takes a hit. Vasanth, a tech whiz, is trying to restore mobile networks in his locality by using TV signals. Raja, a taxi driver, is busy romancing his lover inside his car not realizing that a terrorist has placed a bomb inside it and plans to activate it over phone. If Vasanth succeeds, it will actually help the terrorist execute his plan. Meanwhile, Mukil, a property dealer, is searching for his love interest Simi, who is actually buried under debris in a construction site — with a superheavy stone block dangling over her at a great height. And, the only chance of him saving her is if the mobile network is restored on time.

Thus, Ramprakash Rayappa sets up his story effectively and keeps us on the edge of our seats for the most parts. The manner in which he handles this multi-strand narrative without making it chaotic deserves appreciation. The success lies in how he makes each of these sub-plots interesting.

Vasanth is shown as a tech savant (probably, that's why the character is named as an anagram of the word) who likes to invent things —solar bike, robotic dog, bomb detector, invisible ink, miniature bike with a video camera — and finds being in a job boring. He ghostwrites project reports for college students and one student, Harini, falls in love with him. His mother (a stellar Urvashi) is not quite educated but has learnt a lot about science from her son and can talk about them with conviction. She can even make a clock run by using potatoes as batteries! There is a very amusing scene where Vasanth lets her reply to Harini's messages, that highlights the easygoing relationship between the two.

Raja is the loudmouth driver who doesn't get a girl because of his indiscreet talking. However, one girl falls for him but he can woo her only with the help of Ramesh, the small-time thief who has stolen his mobile phone. Ramesh also has a part to play in the terrorist's plan and gets the loudest cheer with his actions in the climax.

But the track involving Mukil and Simi doesn't feel intrinsic to the plot. Take it away and the film will hardly suffer. Also, their romance seems forced and ridiculous. She is a suicide counselor who mistakes him for a suicide victim while he mistakes her empathy for love. But when they realize the mistake, he tells her that he will continue to love her until she verbally abuses him! And, Dinesh, who still seems to be in Cuckoo mode, and Bindu Madhavi, who is mostly wooden, make one of the most unconvincing romantic pairs in recent times.

Ramprakash Rayappa gives his own spin to the race-against-time thriller with Tamizhukku En 1-Ai Azhuthavum, a solid debut film. Generally, in films of this nature, the hero will have to push himself and beat time and accomplish a task. Here, Ramprakash does what Albert Hitchcock mentioned in his famous conversation with Francois Truffaut while explaining the difference between surprise and suspense. He lets us — the audiences — know the stake while his three leads are hardly aware of what they have in store. We see the bomb being placed, Simi getting buried and the cables holding the stone block snap. Thus, we become active participants in the developments on screen and that makes the film more thrilling than it should have been.

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