Film: Udhayam NH4
Starring: Siddharth,Ashritha Shetty,KK Menon
Director: Manimaran
Producer: Vetrimaran
Banner: Grassroot Film Company,Meeka Entertainment
Music: GV Prakash
Story
Prabhu (Siddharth) is a Tamil guy who
studies engineering in Bangalore along with Rikhitha (Ashritha Shetty).
One day Rikhitha gets kidnapped by Prabhu and his friends. Rikhitha’s
father (Avinash), who is a Minister of Karnataka, appoints a special
encounter specialist Manoj Menon (Kay Kay Menon) to trace his daughter
and to kill the kidnappers. In the quest of finding the kidnappers,
Manoj Menon will go through many tough challenges and many unexpected
series forms the crux.
Performances
Siddharth delivers
sufficient performance as Prabhu. He has left his lover boy image and
sported a rugged look for the movie and delivers a restrained
performance as needed.
Ashritha performed quite well and impresses with her some chubby looks and her onscreen pairing with Siddharth is most-promising.
Kay Kay Menon performed
well as brutal encounter specialist who is both arrogant and
intelligent also adding humor to the scenes. His romantic backdrop is
quite interesting.
Technical Analysis
Velraj has done a great job in capturing
chasing scenes and all songs are beautifully captured. G.V.Prakash
music is an added advantage while the background score is promising for
the plot. Editing by Kishore Te has been very impressive. Manimaran as a
first timer impresses with his unique screenplay and neat presentation.
But the screenplay falters at few moments and the basic plotline is
quite simple. Dialogues are crisp and entertaining. Production values
are standard.
Analysis
Manimaran should get the credits for
implementing simple story into a most promising action thriller. There
are few upturned situations in the movie which makes it more absurd.
Poor lip sync by the lead actors should not be encouraged and this is
reduced by speaking other languages like Hindi, English. The first half
of the film is very entertaining with Siddharth’s friend Karthik’s
comedy liners. Second half of the movie has got some immense pace with
some unexpected climax.