Udhayam NH4

My review: Udhayam NH4

 "Udhayam NH4" starts of promisingly evoking viewer's interest in the first half with it's fresh storyline, non-linear screenplay only to fizzle out in the second half with loads of easily guessable sequences marring the impact. Vetriman's script might have been fresh and racy when it was first conceived years back but  it does lack steam for the present times.

Things that are enjoyable in the movie are very casual dialogues and conversations, especially among the Tamil speaking students when they first come to Bangalore and their expectations and reactions to the lifestyle there. Any one who have gone through it would identify with it. The other interesting conversation is the one between Kay Kay Menon and his wife, very casual and down-to-earth, albiet interesting.

But on the other hand there are routine characterization like that of dumb heroine, power-hungry manipulative politician father of heroine - villain, trigger happy cop with predictable change of mind in the end, hero's friends whose only aim in life is to get high and stay high, etc. Such cardboardish characters makes it a tiring watch.

Sidharth is sincere, tried his level best to give life to his character and succeeds to an extent. Ashritha Shetty looks cute but is expressionless throughout. To make matters worse it is one of the most dumbest heroine character in recent times. Kay Kay Menon looks uncomfortable like a fish out of water, Avinash does his routine villainy stuff.

In G.V.Prakashkumar's music "Yaaro ivan"  is a nice melody. Rest of the songs fails to create any impact while his background score is poor, fails to enhance the thrills.

Velraj's cinematography is good as ever, movie is technically well made.

On the whole, "Udhayam NH4" does has its moments but the sum of the parts doesn't lead up to a satisfying whole.

Bottomline: Potential wasted.

2.5/5