Nadhi Movie Rating: 3/5
Stroy:
Hero Sam Jones dreams of getting a government job and support his family by participating in the National level Badminton competition.
Kayal Anandhi who is from a family with political and casteist background studies in the same college.
They become friends and slowly their relationship moves to the next level.
Anandhi’s family assume that they both are in love which leads to troubles in Sam’s life. What happens next?
Was Sam able to fulfil his dreams forms the rest of the story.
Time and again, Tamil filmmakers have been trying their best to break caste and social disparities through hard-hitting love stories featuring two innocent characters. The makers of Nadhi, directed by Thamarai Selvan, have a similar intention, but fail to hit the bulls-eye in terms of filmmaking. Looks like they have taken too much of inspiration from Mari Selvaraj’s Pariyerum Perumal, but only end up serving a half-cooked fare.
Nadhi does have the scope for a good film, but lazy writing spoils the good moments that it could’ve created.
Thamizh (Sam Jones), the son of auto driver Manikkam (Munishkanth), and Bharathi (Anandhi), who belongs to a casteist political family, study in the same college in Madurai. Bharathi forms a special bond with Thamizh after knowing about his family and their innocent nature. Even before Bharathi confesses her love for Thamizh, the former’s family frames him in a murder case, which later becomes the talk of the town.
This forces Thamizh and Bharathi to take up the issue to the media, with the help of their relative (Karu Palaniappan), who is also a politician. Upset by this, Bharathi’s uncle (Vela Ramamoorthy) threatens to kill the couple for ruining their family’s pride. Bharathi’s ultimate decision to save Thamizh and his family forms the emotional climax.
Nadhi flows seamlessly in the first half, quenching all our thirst. But as the film progresses, it loses its track, leaving the audience drained out. Sam Jones’s performance is decent and he does well as an innocent youngster with a lot of passion. His sequences with Munishkanth are quite entertaining and emotional. Manikkam is a Rajini fan and his character arc is fantastic throughout. While some scenes are written in a very sensible manner, a few badly written sequences spoil the core intention of the film.
Karu Palaniappan’s character is enticing and is something to watch out for. He is someone who does anything and everything to attain money and power. Vela Ramamoorthy steals the show with a power-packed performance. He gives you the chills especially in the scene in which he threatens Anandhi. However, despite all of these positives, we still feel a lack of depth in the film and so, it doesn’t move us completely, like Pariyerum Perumal.
Anandhi’s character here is bold and intense. She has done exceptionally well and proves that she has all the capabilities to hold an entire film. The climax sequence does justice to the core content of the film, but it doesn’t hit us very hard. Dhibu Ninan Thomas’s music elevates the drama and his background score is really good.
