Kadhalil Vizhunthen

Kadhalil Vizhunthen (English: I Fell in Love) is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language romantic action thriller film written and directed by P. V. Prasath starring Nakul and Sunaina. The film has music by Vijay Antony, cinematography by S.D. Vijay Milton and editing by V. T. Vijayan. The shooting for the film started in August 2007 and the film was released in September 2008.

Kadhalil Vizhunthen
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	P. V. Prasath
Produced by	S. Umapathi
Written by	P. V. Prasath
Starring	Nakul Sunaina Livingston Sampath Raj
Music by	Vijay Antony
Cinematography	S.D. Vijay Milton
Edited by	V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Atlantic Cinemas
Distributed by	Sun Pictures
Release date	26 September 2008 (2008-09-26)
Running time	188 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

The film was distributed by Kalanithi Maran, the managing director of Sun Network and the son of politician (late) Murasoli Maran and released on September 2008. The song Nakka Mukka, a kuthu (folk) song and Thozhiya.., a melodious romantic song were very successful hits composed by young music director Vijay Antony and was one of the main reasons of the film's success. Nakka Mukka was played in the opening ceremony of the Cricket World Cup 2011 held at Mirpur, Bangladesh. It also featured among a medley of Tamil songs performed by Shah Rukh Khan and Shriya Saran in the inaugural of the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League 2011 held at Chennai, India.

Plot

The story focuses on the life of Sabhapathy (Nakul). He is the football-crazy son of an alcoholic and lives in the slums. However, he lives a comfortable life and plays football with his mates as he completes his college career. He meets Meera (Sunaina) and develops a liking for her. He slowly starts to love her but is afraid to express his love since she is rich and would react hastily. However, he later does confirm his love to her, and she accepts. When Sabha leaves for a football match with his college, he promises he will propose to her as soon as he gets back. Sabha returns from his match to only find out that Meera has died. He slips into a psychotic depression, travelling with Meera's dead body. To make matters even worse, the police are after him. The film ends as he commits suicide after killing Meera's uncle Kasirajan (Hariraj), who murdered her in order to gain her wealth.

Cast

• Nakul as Sabhapathy
• Sunaina as Meera
• Sampath Raj as Anbu Selvan
• Livingston as Train TTR
• Hariraj as Kasirajan, Meera's uncle
• Chaams
• Pasi Sathya
• Nalinikanth as Doctor
• Sridhar in a special appearance in the song "Naaka Mukka"

Production

Nakul, who was one of the heroes in Boys made his comeback through this film and he has reduced over 20 kilograms to play the lead role in the film.[1] A stunt sequence was shot in Mettupalayam and Nakul performed it without any dupe.[2] The film was shot at locations in Chennai, Ooty, Thalakkonam, Mudumalai, Pollachi, Valparai, Masinagudi, Gudalar, Udumalpet, Coimbatore and Kodaikanal.[3] The film marked the foray of the Sun Network into film distribution through their newly founded production company Sun Pictures.

Soundtrack

Kadhalil Vizhunthen
Soundtrack album by Vijay Antony
Released	21 March 2008
Recorded	24 August 2007
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	39:01
Language	Tamil
Label	Junglee Music
Producer	Vijay Antony
Vijay Antony chronology
Budhivanta (2008) Kadhalil Vizhunthen (2008) A Aa E Ee (2009)

The soundtrack has nine tracks, composed by Vijay Antony except track "Unakena Naan" by the director himself. The lyrics were written by Thamarai, P.V.Prasath, Nepolian and Priyan. The song "Nakka Mukka" met with tremendous response from the youth and was on everyone's lips. The soundtrack met with critical acclaim and made Vijay Antony famous. The song "Naaka Mukka" would eventually go on to be featured in the Bollywood film, The Dirty Picture. "Unakkena Naan" is based on Rihanna's "Unfaithful".[4]

Track-List

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Doley"	Priyan	Relina, Megha	4:17
2.	"Naaka Mukka" (Male)	P. V. Prasath	Vijay Antony	4:56
3.	"Solladi"	Thamarai	Tippu	5:08
4.	"Thozhiya"	P. V. Prasath	Harish Raghavendra, Sri Charan	4:47
5.	"Enna Sonnen"	P. V. Prasath	Nitish Gopalan	1:09
6.	"Un Thalai Mudi"	Nepolian	Karthik, Nithish Gopalan, Maya	5:27
7.	"Naaka Mukka" (Female)	P. V. Prasath	Nakul, Chinnaponnu	3:17
8.	"Unakkena Naan"	Thamarai	Vijay Antony, Ramya NSK	3:44
9.	"Kadavul Padaitha"	P. V. Prasath	Vijay Antony, Fathima	6:16
Total length:				39:01

Release

The film was lying in the cans for one year and Sun Pictures bought the film making it their first film.[5] The film opened alongside Sakkarakatti at the box office on 26 September 2008 with the media hyping that it was a battle of two films with debutants and successful soundtracks.[6]

The success of the film led Nakul and Sunaina reunite again in Maasilamani[7] which too was promoted by Sun Pictures and became successful. PV Prasad started another project "Eppadi Manasukkul Vanthai" for he was held in cheating case and the film was finally released in 2012.[8]

Critical reception

Rediff wrote: "Kadhalil Vizhundhen achieves at least in part, what other love-stories fail to do -- to bring a genuine lump in your throat at times".[9] IndiaGlitz praised the director writing, "with a lesser known star cast, director Prasad has managed to weave a sequence of some interesting and catchy sequences...the end product, through gory and violent, leaves an impact with the audience."[10] Behindwoods said overall the movie "deals with a regular theme in a refreshing manner", and the director of the film "understood perfectly the requirements of the script" and "has taken quite a few cinematic liberties but has handled all of them well which keep boredom or ridicule well at bay".[11]

References

1. "Nakul - One more Boys boy becomes hero". IndiaGlitz. 22 August 2006. Archived from the original on 18 September 2006.
2. "Nakul on a new role". IndiaGlitz. 6 August 2007. Archived from the original on 14 September 2007.
3. Mannath, Malini (2 June 2007). "Kadhalil Vizhuthen". Chennai online. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008.
4. "மொய் வைக்கனும்... மொக்கை போடனும்..." தி இந்து. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
5. "Tamil movie launch". IndiaGlitz. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
6. Moviebuzz (24 September 2008). "Nakku Mukka..takes on Taxi Taxi..!". sify.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012.
7. "Title ready for Nakul's next". IndiaGlitz. 20 October 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008.
8. "Two directors held on cheating charges". IndiaGlitz. 10 March 2012. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012.
9. "Review: Kadhalil Vizhundhen". rediff.com.
10. "Kadhalil Vizhunthen review". IndiaGlitz. 27 September 2008.
11. "Kadhalil Vizhundhen – Prepare to fall in love!". behindwoods.com.

External links

• Kadhalil Vizhunthen on IMDb