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 Written, Directed by     Thiru
Produced by     Vishal, Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapoor
Music by     G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography     Richard M. Nathan
Editing by     Anthony L. Ruben
Studio     UTV Motion Pictures, Vishal Film Factory
Distributed by     E4 Entertainment (Kerala)
Release dates     April 13, 2014 (Kerala)
Running time     149 minutes
Country     India
Language     Tamil

CastVishal as Indran
    Lakshmi Menon as Meera
    Iniya as Kavitha
    Saranya Ponvannan as Indran's Mother
    Jayaprakashas as Meera's Father
    Sunder Ramu
    Jagan as Sathish
    Pyramid Natarajan
    V. I. S. Jayapalan
    Madhan

'Indran' is suffering from a rare kind of sleeping disorder called 'Narcolepsy'. Any sudden outburst of emotion will put him to immediate sleep.But even during his sleep all the conversations happening around will be recorded in his brain which he can recollect while waking up. Due to such an incurable disease he faces lots of difficulties, in every step of his life. So he has made himself a bucket list, which he gets to complete on by one with the help of Meera. Their Acquaintance slowly develops into love. One night gang of 4 goons ambush the car they were traveling & rape Meera in front of Indran, who falls asleep in the sudden shock, and leave her to death. Meera is in coma and Indran sets out to revenge with the vague clues he gets and the sounds that got stored in his memory while he was asleep. What happens next forms the rest of the story. 

Thiru has worked with Vishal twice in the past, both the times failed to give us a satisfying film. Samar even though had a great plot, failed to develop into a great film. Looks like its 3rd time luck for the duo as NSM is a good revenge drama with suspense, twists, action, sentimence etc. Thiru managed to package the films nicely and present it in an entertaining manner. 

The film begins as a drama, explaining Indran's condition, the difficulties he face, shifts gear to the usual meet girl, fall in love track. Its slow, but nice and breezy till it shifts gears toward intermission. In the second half its more of a thriller which has been conceived intelligently ye entertainingly by Thiru. He managed to complete the story without hurting our sensibilites and using brain more instead of brawn. Plus the Narcolepsy feature also doesn't disappear unlike in most mass films, instead the way he comes out of it or beats it each time is shown is smart work, something rare in Mass movies.

The twists in the 2nd half have worked out well. But the 'reason' feels kinda far fetched. The songs are average and prove major hindrance to the proceedings. Also they could have used a better actor as the main antagonist.

Vishal performed exceedingly well as the Narcoleptic suffering Indran. Got almost all his expressions and emotions in check. There were rumors that Mohanlal was supposed to do the project first, and the script was tweaked later when Vishal entered the scene. Without naming the star Vishal himself said he is scared to do the role as acting legend was supposed to do. Any way he has made this completely his film now and can relax. Laksmi Menon did an okay job. Iniya was good in the cameo role.

Thiru's direction and writing have improved a lot. Cinematography was good. Editing was efficient. Songs were average, BG was okay. 

In all NSM is a good revenge, drama, thriller that you might wanna check out this summer.

Rating 3.25/5

Verdict: Good

Last Word: You  Won't be Narcoleptic while watching the movie, except may be during the songs, that's a guarantee !!!

'Pattathu Yaanai' Movie Review

 Directed by     Boopathy Pandian
Produced by     S. Michael Rayappan
Music by     Thaman
Cinematography     S. Vaithy
Editing by     A. L. Ramesh
Studio     Global Infotainment Pvt Ltd
Release date(s)    26 July 2013
Country     India
Language     Tamil

  

Cast

    Vishal as Saravanan
    Aishwarya Arjun as Aishwarya
    Santhanam as Poongavanam / Gouravam
    Jagan
    Vada Poche Sarithiran
    Karthik Sabesh
    John Vijay
    Ajay
    Murali Sharma
    Seetha
    Mayilsamy
    Pattimandram Raja

Movie Review by Sree Prasad Nair
Theater – Eldorado Cinemas, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2
5/07/2013 – 10.30 pm
Occupancy – 60%



Director Boopathy Pandian is known for his successful films like Devathayai Kanden, Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam & Malaikottai. But his last film Kaadhal Solla Vandhen was a blig flop at the box office. Pattathu Yaanai is the second film of Hit Jodi Boopahy Pandian-Vishal after the successful Malaikottai in 2007. Pattathu Yaanai is the debut film of Aishwarya Arjun, daughter of action superstar Arjun. Pattathu Yaanai also stars Santhanam & Murali Sharma

Story

Pattathu Yaanai story is about the catering service group held in the name of Punkavanam managed by Santhanam. Santhanam and Vishal used to go for catering service to different places. Vishal says an idea to Santhanam that instead of moving to different places & they can open a grand hotel and can become a rich business man. The idea holds Santhanam and they start to moving towards Karaikudi to Trichy. There they faces some problems and how they solve those problems???

Pattathu Yaanai has its share of plusses and minuses

Positives

The main positive of Pattathu Yaanai is One & Only Santhanam. The film belongs to Santhanam from Scene A to Z. The actor is at his best yet again and delivers a towering performance. If Santhanam stole the thunder in recently released Singham 2, he walks away with accolades yet again in Pattathu Yaanai. No two opinions on that. Such a terrific actor with unbeatable comic timing!
Vishal's acting is good although he goes over-the-top in the first half & at action sequences. But his acting in the second half is quite good. Debutant Aishwarya Arjun is photogenic, acts very well and most importantly looks the character of a plus two girl.
Karthik Sabesh & Jagan as Vishal's friends are good. Karthik Sabesh's comic timing with Santhanam provides maximum laughs. John Vijay is ok. Direction of Boopahy Pandian is good, still not at par with his work in Malaikottai.

Negatives

Like I mentioned above, Pattathu Yaanai has its share of plusses and minuses. And the main minus is it's poor music by Thaman. All the songs are very ordinary and the situation placement of the songs are horribly wrong. The film starts off well, but the story comes to an ordinary stuff in the second half. The flashback portions of Vishal were ordinary. Murali Sharma is overacted. Some comedy scenes just after emotional scenes were unwanted.
Overall a good first half and an average second half, That's Pattathu Yaanai for you ! At the box office, film can be a decent success all thanks to Santhanam's comedy, Vishal's acting and film's masala theme.



P:S: One Time Watchable!

Verdict - Pattathu Yaanai is Santhanam's!!!

Rating - 2.75/5! Average !!! This Reviewer can be contacted on Twitter : @i_spn : https://twitter.com/i_spn