Nenjai Thodu

Nenjai Thodu
Nenjai Thodu
Directed by	P.Ae. Rajkannan
Written by	P.Ae. Rajkannan
Produced by	M Sivakumaran; M Thoufeeq
Starring	Gemini; Lakshmi Rai
Cinematography	Karthikraja
Edited by	Mohan; Subbu
Music by	Srikanth Deva
Production; companies	Divine Creations (U.K.) ; DC Entertainment
Release date	21 September 2007;
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Nenjai Thodu (transl. Touch the heart) is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language film starring newcomer Gemini and Lakshmi Rai.^[1] The film was produced by NRIs.^[2]

Plot

The movie starts off with the Nasser losing his wife at the birth of his second son. He starts to hate his son and even leaves home with his first child. The child grows up into Siva and he lives with his grandparents who love him so much.

Siva's brother's Krishna marriage gets fixed up. At this time, Siva meets his father again. His father still hates him and barely talks to him. This really hurts Siva. He tries to not keep it in his mind and just goes along. At this point he meets Aishwarya, who is his brother's sister-in-law. These two lock horns with each other right in their first meeting.

As time goes by, Siva and Aishwarya develop feeling towards each other. At the same point, his father also starts to like him. Unfortunately, Siva's marriage gets fixed up with another girl, chosen by his father. Now, Siva is scared to tell his father, that he loves Aishwarya, because he doesn't want to break his father's trust in him. Siva's grandfather knows about the love between Siva and Aishwarya and even tries to convince his son to get them both married, but Nasser refuses. Now, Siva is stuck between his father and his love. But fate has some other games to play.

When both Siva and Aishwarya were travelling in a train, they come to know that bomb is fixed in a train. All the passengers had come out, the train gets crashed which makes Siva think that Aishwarya is dead while Aishwarya assumes that Siva is dead, they both fall unconscious and admitted to the hospital. It is revealed that Siva's mind has damaged (doctor reveals that since his mother died his mind has become emotional) and he is under the wrong impression that Aiswarya is dead. The film ends with Siva's father and Aishwarya taking care of Siva but it is revealed that Siva's mind will become normal only after four or five months.

Cast

Gemini as Siva
Lakshmi Rai as Aishwarya
Nagesh as Siva's grandfather
Nassar
M Thoufeeq as Krishna

Production

The film's director Rajkannan earlier assisted K. Bhagyaraj.^[3]

Songs

Soundtrack was composed by Srikanth Deva.^[4] Lyrics by Viveka and M.G. Kaniappan.

"Puthu Vasam" - Hariharan, Sadhana Sargam
"Kichu Kichu" - Sangeetha
"En Thai Aval" - Vijay Yesudas
"LKG" - Malgudi Subha
"Thondathe" - Shankar Mahadevan, Anuradha Sriram
"Ulalela" - Udit Narayan, Srilekha Parthasarathy

Reception

Chennai Online wrote "It's a promising debut from Gemini as Siva. And with seasoned actors like Nasser and Nagesh to share frames with, the scenes come out natural. Weaved into this is the love story between Siva and his cousin Aishwaria. The playfulness and the one up-manship between the duo at one point backfires on them, leading to drastic consequences. A touch of melodrama is added towards the end".^[5] Aparna of Kalki praised the acting, Srikanth Deva's music, cinematography but called sagging screenplay and weak dialogues as negatives.^[6]

References

^ "Stargazing". The Hindu. 2 March 2007. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
^ "Stargazing". The Hindu. 11 May 2007. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
^ "Nenjai Thodu - Another Love Story". 24 August 2007. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^ "Nenjai Thodu (2007) - Srikanth Deva". MusicIndiaOnline. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019.
^ "Nenjai Thodu". chennaionline.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
^ அபர்ணா (7 October 2007). "நெஞ்சைத் தொடு". Kalki (in Tamil). pp. 18–19. Retrieved 18 May 2024.