Nayyandi

My review: Nayyandi

Now and then you get to see a movie which makes you wonder what was the purpose with or for such a movie is made in the first place. Especially so when it involves not one but two national award winners in its crew. Sargunam's Dhanush starrer "Nayyandi" is a total wash out. It is two and half hours of unmitigated torture that one would think twice before foisting it on even the most dreadful of  your enemies. 

Inspired from yesteryear Malayalam blockbuster "Meleparambil Aanveedu" "Nayyandi" is totally messy. Wonder what made Dhanush sign this project considering the fact the it has been a very long time since he has given a decent box-office hit. And also the same Malayalam movie has already been remade in Tamil in the 1990's by Pandiarajan as "Valli Vara Pora" which was a huge flop. 

First half of the movie is atrociously lazy and dumb. Nothing much interesting happens and not laughs what so ever other then couple of really funny scenes like Dhansuh trying to defy gravity by jumping across a well or from one tree to another, a monkey-man impersonation may be. Second half is very very mildly tolerable mainly due to better writing which ensure one can laugh with the movie instead of at the movie like in the first half. Or is it due to the rock bottom mediocrity achieved by the makers in the first half which brings down your expectation to the point of no return that even semblance of normalcy make it look like something great to laugh about.

Dhanush tries hard to infuse energy into this pathetically written role but to no avail. Normally an effortless performer in "Nayyandi" Dhanush's acting is synthetic. The bubble surrounding Nazriya Nazim gets burst with her performance in this movie. It goes to show that actress of her type needs a good director to extract work. Her she is all at sea. Especially her overt cutesy expressions in the song sequence is irritating to the core. Sriman and Sathyan at least manage to infuse some laughter mainly due to better writing in the second half. Soori is  not that lucky. 

Gibran's songs barring the novel "Teddy bear" song are not that interesting. Background score is no better. It is really surprising to see Velraj's name in the title credit as the movie's cinematographer because after his work in movies such as "Aadukalam" and "Engeyum Eppodhum" his work in this movie is pretty ordinary. Not that this movie deserves better. 

On the whole, "Nayyandi" is one forgettable movie for both the makers as well as the viewers as it is a silly movie lazily made.

Bottomline: Pathetic to the core

2/5